Dr Fatima Maatwk (she/her) is an early-career researcher and Lecturer in Student Partnership at the Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation (CETI) at the University of Westminster, as well as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Prior to her role at CETI, she was a Lecturer and Researcher at Westminster Business School, where she also completed her doctoral research on diversity and inclusion in the technology industry across Egypt, Germany and the UK. In her current role, Fatima leads on the Students as Co-Creators programme, the Student Partnership Ambassadors programme, and is part of the Pedagogies for Social Justice project (PSJ). She has published in the areas of labour and employment relations, diversity and inclusion in the legal field, gender and work, and student-staff partnership.
Her work on fostering student-staff partnership communities is centred on social justice, anti-racism and decolonisation. Her research foci and interests include social psychology, decolonisation, social justice, intersectionality, and cross-cultural research. Fatima is an Egyptian-German Muslim woman. She spent her life between Egypt and Germany and has been living in the UK for the past nine years, where she is continuing her academic path.