Dr Niyousha Bastani

Niyousha's primary research focus has looked at psychological and educational approaches to counter-extremism. Her overlapping research interests include the colonial histories of psychology, the politics of race, anti-Muslim racism (especially in the UK), education, liberalism, and the political thought of Sylvia Wynter. Her most recent research interest is in global usages of psychology for anti-imperial resistance, especially in Iran in 1960s-80s. 

She is also interested in the uses of digital technologies for political rule, especially in the UK, and has contributed to collective research on this topic for the group No Tech for Tyrants.