Nadira Mirza is Professor of Lifelong Learning and Social Mobility and the Director of the Race Institute at Leeds Trinity University (LTU). She is also the Deputy Chair of Airedale Hospitals Foundation Trust. She was formerly the Dean of the School of Lifelong Education and Development and the Director of Student Experience and Success at the University of Bradford, where she was instrumental in developing widening participation and access programmes in higher education for first generation scholars and mature learners. Nadira has been a member of several national and international boards charged with transforming health and education outcomes, these include the Office for Students’, Widening Participation Strategy Committee, the Prime Minister’s Social Mobility Advisory Reference Group, and the NHSI/E Seacole Group. Nadira has worked with Born in Bradford since the study was first initiated, co-chairing the family advocacy group. She is also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has published in the field of lifelong learning, race, equity, and inclusion.
Fun fact about Nadira
Nadira claims Bradford made her…she came for a three-year action research project with the DfE and has been here for 43.
