Mrs Aniqa Khaliq

Aniqa is a Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education academy. She is the course lead for the Academic Professional Apprenticeship, leading to the PGCertHE award in Learning and Teaching and the CMI Coaching and Mentoring certification, and an assessor for the AdvanceHE Fellowship panels.

Aniqa has 21yrs experience in teaching, 17 years of which have been in the field of teacher education. Her experience in teaching mathematics through project-based learning became the foundation of training future teachers and supporting them in becoming facilitators of learning and future leaders.

Since starting at UEL, Aniqa has taught across ITE, Masters and Apprenticeship programmes. She has led the Secondary ITE programme, Mathematics Subject Knowledge Enhancement course and the PG Cert Learning and Teaching in HE, leading to the FHEA award.

Aniqa has also taken on a variety of school wide leadership roles, namely Academic Lead for Teaching and Learning, Deputy Chair of the EDI Committee, Deputy Director of Impact and Innovation, Director of Education and Experience and Cluster Lead for Social Sciences and Social Work.

Aniqa's current research interests are in women in leadership, trauma informed practice, educational effectiveness and improvement, the importance of pastoral support in HE, and raising awareness of the mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. She is a member and reviewer for the Chartered College of Teaching, a speaker for BAMEed and editorial board member of Patterns of Practice, an international journal of scholarship of teaching and learning.

Aniqa is a keen writer, and a Muslim woman of colour in STEM. She uses poetry and storytelling to challenge the stigma surrounding life trauma, mental health and seeking therapy in the South Asian community alongside podcasting and writing for other platforms sharing her journey into academia, a career in STEM, motherhood after infertility, and raising a daughter with congenital heart disease.