Staff Profile

Dr Yousra Osman FHEA

Biography

Dr. Yousra Osman completed her PhD in Education at The University of Birmingham, UK exploring the significance of using role models for moral development in school children. Prior to that, she earned an MSc in Mental Health: Psychological Therapies from Queen Mary, University of London as well as an MA in English Literature from the University of Westminster.

Yousra has been working in academia for the past 7 years between Saudi Arabia, the UK and the UAE. At the University of Birmingham, UK she was a research fellow exploring non-formal intercommunal education in Birmingham and lecturing in various Education courses at the postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Areas of teaching included citizenship education, alternative approaches in education and education as an international issue. In Saudi Arabia she taught at Effat University, taking on several roles such as lecturing in the university’s character education programme, teaching research and language skills within the Foundation programme, and managing the university's English Writing Centre. Yousra is currently a member of the Wellness Office at Middlesex University Dubai.  

Qualifications
  • PhD in Education, University of Birmingham, UK  
  • PGCert in Higher Education, Middlesex University Dubai
  • MSc in Mental Health: Psychological Therapies, Queen Mary University of London  
  • MA in English Literature, University of Westminster  
Awards and Achievements

Middlesex Staff Innovation Award for Creative Collaboration (2022-2023) 

Research interests
  • Moral Education  
  • Social Justice Education  
  • Wellbeing and mental health in education
  • Alternative approaches in education  
  • Social-emotional learning  
  • Peer-mentoring and role models in education  
Research Publications

Yousra Osman. (2019). The significance in using role models to influence primary school children’s moral development: Pilot study, Journal of Moral Education, 48:3, 316-331, DOI: 10.1080/03057240.2018.1556154 

Conference Presentations
  • Osman, Y. (2022). Disney characters as moral role models for “Resilience”: Using Encanto and Coco as case studies. Presented at Moral Development & Moral Education in Global Transition by Asia-Pacific Network for Moral Education Conference and Association for Moral Education Conference in Manchester, UK.  
  • Vaidya, R., and Osman, Y. (2022). Disney characters as moral role models for “Resilience”: Using Encanto and Coco as case studies. Presented at the Fifth International ERPBSS conference a Middlesex University Dubai, UAE
  • Osman, Y and Vaidya, R. (2022). Interdisciplinary Advising Through Personal Tutor Groups. Paper. Presented at the ‘21st Middlesex Annual Learning and Teaching Conference’ at Middlesex University, Hendon.  
  • Osman, Y. (2020). How to develop a role-modelling character education programme in Saudi Arabia and the barriers/enablers in feasibly implementing it.  Presented at the Oriel Conference by the Jubilee Centre of Character and Values in Oxford, UK.  
  • Osman, Y. (2020). Perceptions on developing and implementing a role-model character education in Saudi Arabia. Education Research Matters at the University of Birmingham  
  • Osman, Y and Harrison, T. (2020). The possibilities and problematics of online celebrities for moral education. Philosophy and Fame conference at University of Tilburg
  • Osman, Y. (2017). The significance in using role models to influence primary school children’s moral development: Pilot study. Presented PhD research at the Aretai Annual Conference in Genoa, Italy  

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