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Özlem Sensoy
Director, Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice
Associate Faculty, Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, SFU
Associate Faculty, Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, History Department, SFU
Dr. Özlem Sensoy's primary field of research is social justice education. Social justice education seeks to reveal how social inequities become embedded in the fabric of society, and to identify strategies for socially just change. Her research examines the opportunities and barriers inherent in advancing a more equitable society, through social justice education. In doing so, Dr. Sensoy studies a dual track: analyzing how inequities are reproduced in social institutions (such as schools, media, policing) anzd identifying constructive interventions to interrupt them (such as thinking critically about knowledge, pedagogical approaches, and political activism).
school Supervision Status: Not Accepting New Students
Research
Keywords
social justice education; multicultural education; critical pedagogy; cultural studies; Islam & Middle East studies; popular culture; critical media literacy; feminist postcolonial theory; visual research methods.
Supervisory Experience
Doctoral Supervision
- Ngo, Sabrina (PhD, 2026), Decolonizing practices in vocational education
- Tinglin, Carolyn Christine (PhD, 2025), Special education, teacher practice, and professional development supports in racially diverse Ontario classrooms
- Faris, Reema (PhD, 2024), Reading women: negotiating the intoxicating morass of "happily ever after" and "happy for now"
Master's Supervision
- Dhillon, Balraj (MA, 2025), "Change outta love": a discourse analysis on what educators can learn from BC youths' hip hop lyrics
- Ghouse, Sabah (MA, 2025), Violence and hate crimes against religious minorities: A meta-synthesis analysis of anti-religious oppressive interventions
- Burdge, Rowan (MA, 2021), Cripping accommodation and inclusion: A critical discourse analysis of accommodations policies and inclusion discourses at BC's three largest post-secondary institutions
- Lozano, Hollman (MA, 2018), Unforgiveness: An alternative space for people who cannot forgive
- Semenec, Paulina (MA, 2012), "We can wear any shirt that we want": girls' understanding, negotiation and resistance of girlhood