Nasrin Soltani
Nasrin qualified as a midwife and worked in maternity wards, delivering babies in deprived towns of Iran. She then studied an MSc in Psychology and worked as a child and adolescent psychologist. In the UK, she achieved her second MSc in Health Psychology before achieving a PhD in Health Studies.
Nasrin’s PhD research explored the experiences and perspectives of Iranian migrant women on the physical activity and dietary behaviours. Her PhD findings challenged the dominant discourse about migration, assuming that migrant women have no previous experience of physical activity in their home country.
In her thesis she argued that migrants are heterogeneous group and migration could lead to active lifestyle in some women although majority of participants felt, migration led to become financially disadvantaged and face many challenges. Yet, when it comes to food, they simultaneously endeavour to find a way to eat healthy food because raising a healthy family was their main priority.
Nasrin has been teaching in various UK HE and FE institutions, teaching health and social care, child and adolescent’s development as well as Public Health. She led and taught many modules and supervised MSc Public Health dissertations prior to joining Birmingham City University.
At Birmingham City University, she is teaching two modules, Public Health Foundations and Health Protection to Community Development, in particular behaviour and guides dissertation workshops. She is supervising MSc Public Health dissertations and is currently involved in a research project.