Header image with MYFest25, June, July and August 2025 written in the middle. On the right there is the equity unbound logo of a colorful world map and the words 'equity unbound' overlaid and on the left there is the MYFest logo with the colorful blue, pink and purple circle in the middle and the words 'equitable, emergent, caring, community, creative' around the circle.
Fatima Maatwk

Fatima Maatwk

Co-facilitator, Community-building and Community reflection, Critical Pedagogy & Social Justice, Guest Facilitator or Speaker

Dr Fatima Maatwk (she/her) is a Senior 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. Fatima is a mixed race 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 career.

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