Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

Professor Sara Ashencaen Crabtree

  • Emeritus Professor
  • Bournemouth Gateway Building BG501, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
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Biography

Professor Dr Sara Ashencaen Crabtree is Professor of Social & Cultural Diversity in the

Department of Social Sciences & Social Work at Bournemouth University. She is a founding member and the main convenor of the unique nexus the Bournemouth University Women’s Academic Network at BU from 2013 to 2022. The former deputy director of the Centre of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, her research interests reflect her extensive international experience across the social sciences, including social work. Her previous academic posts were at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Zayed University, UAE and University Malaysia Sarawak.

A prolific writer her research interests cover diversity and vulnerability, with a focus on gender, ethnicity and belief systems. Feminist scholarship has been threaded throughout her research journey, which includes studies into postcolonial psychiatry, disability and gender in the Middle East, social exclusion of minority ethnic groups in Hong Kong, SAR; environmental issues, and Indigenous communities in Malaysia, and also Costa Rica as well as gender inequalities in Higher Education...

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Research

My research work is primarily focused on diversity, vulnerability, marginalised groups and unheard voices – and I am particularly well known for my ethnographic studies in these diverse socio-religio-cultural domains.

My current research focuses variously on indigenous people in Malaysia under ecological threat; an extensive ethnographic, cross-cultural study of women and religion; a historiographic study of missionary nurses in the twentieth century; and research ethics.