Publications: MR Zahid Naz

( 2026 ) . Post-graduate pedagogy in neuroliberal times: affect, governance and volatility in higher education . Critical Studies in Education vol. ahead-of-print , ( ahead-of-print ) 1 - 19 .

Naz Z, Beighton C ( 2025 ) . The power of taste: Bourdieusian perspectives on the negotiation of policy, practice, and pedagogy . Journal of Further and Higher Education vol. 49 , ( 10 ) 1400 - 1416 .

Beighton C, Naz Z ( 2025 ) . Regulating truths, indeterminate practice and ways of being: a biopolitics of Professional Standards in UK Higher Education . Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education vol. 47 , ( 1 ) 85 - 100 .

Naz Z, Beighton C ( 2024 ) . Dis/placing teacher identity: performing the ‘brutal forms of formalities’ in English Further Education . International Journal of Lifelong Education vol. 43 , ( 5 ) 553 - 567 .

Naz Z ( 2024 ) . ‘Tick boxes are just tick boxes’: Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a complexity lens . Policy Futures in Education vol. 23 , ( 1 ) 127 - 143 .

Beighton C, Naz Z ( 2023 ) . The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education . Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education vol. 44 , ( 6 ) 844 - 858 .

Naz Z ( 2023 ) . Politics of Quality Improvement in English Further Education, Policies and Practices . Springer Nature

Naz Z ( 2021 ) . Analysing neoliberal discourse in Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework (EIF) through a Foucauldian lens . Journal of Vocational Education and Training vol. 75 , ( 5 ) 1033 - 1054 .

Naz Z . Backyard Ethnography: Researching the Interplay Between Education Policy and Teaching Practices in a Complex Workplace . Sage Publications

Naz Z, Naz Z . FE’s educational ethos is being overshadowed by market logic .