Dr. Razia I. Sadik
Dr. Razia I. Sadik is an Associate Professor at the School of Education (SOE), LUMS, where she has served since 2020. She has an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Her research and teaching are in critical pedagogy, teacher education, higher education, and climate and environmental education, in all of which she investigates how learning happens through and with the arts and media. In both her research and teaching, she uses intersectional critical research and analytical methods that center the lived experience of gender, class, marginality, disability, and inclusion. Dr. Sadik has over 20 years of experience in program development, leadership, and instruction in higher education, as well as teacher education, graduate, and professional education programs, in Pakistan and the United States.
As Director, Dr. Sadik envisions strengthening SWGI's threefold role as a resource for the LUMS community, a research and academic hub on gender and sexuality, and a community of practice extending beyond campus. She plans to reinstitute SWGI's gender symposia, expand its research and publication efforts — including its event archive and a nationwide inventory of gender research — and build a growing consortium of university, nonprofit, and government partners working on gender issues. She also aims to develop sustained training and learning programs on gender sensitization for schoolteachers, administrators, and other education professionals, drawing on her own experience in teacher education. Dr. Sadik's vision includes deepening student engagement through research and internship opportunities, positioning SWGI's growing archive and programming as a platform where students can contribute to meaningful, publicly engaged work on gender in Pakistan.
