PhD Student Seema Allahdini is awarded 2025 Emerging Scholar Award by Canadian Association for Social Justice and Education
We鈥檙e pleased to congratulate Seema Allahdini, a PhD student in Social Justice Education, who has been awarded the from the (CASJE).
According to CASJE, "This award recognizes early-career scholars whose research and contributions significantly advance the fields of social justice education. The goal is to support innovative research that addresses equity, inclusion, and transformative change in educational contexts.鈥 It pays particular attention to work that engages intersectionality in policy, practice, or theory.
Seema鈥檚 research on racialized poverty and colonialism in Canada challenges Canadian narratives of human rights, multiculturalism and inclusion. Her focus on Canadian poverty policy and its relationship to racialized experiences speaks to social justice education understood broadly. She speaks to how the settler state creates meaning around poverty and the racialized people who experience it, with attention to the resulting policy impacts and outcomes.
Seema鈥檚 research is informed by her extensive community-based work in the non-profit sector, supporting Indigenous, Black, and people of colour (BIPOC) communities experiencing varying levels of racialized poverty who have been marginalized by the gaps in supportive policies. Her work aims to bridge gaps in understandings of poverty by focusing on the role of race and settler colonialism in shaping lived experiences and outcomes, whilst encouraging reconsiderations of poverty policy development toward racial justice to increase access to resources and opportunities for BIPOC communities across Canada.
Congratulations to Seema on this well-deserved award! SJE looks forward to supporting her continued contributions to the field.
