Dr. Beyhan Farhadi is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Equity at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Specifically, she researches K-12 EdTech policy: online education, learning and disciplinary surveillance, in public schools.  Her focus on policy is critically focused, prioritizing teacher enactment and leadership. She is interested in questions of power, justice, and resistance to neoliberal restructuring using interpretive research. She draws from extensive experience teaching in Ontario secondary schools and public education advocacy to bridge research and practice.

During her 2-year tenure as a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University, she researched policy enactment and the implementation of educational policy online during COVID-19 school closures. 

Dr. Farhadi holds an MA in English from York University (2010) where she studied critical theory, literature in the Global South, and researched activist performance art. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto (2019). Her dissertation research examined the relationship between e-learning and educational inequality in the Toronto District School Board. She has a book forthcoming with University of Toronto Press.

Dr. Beyhan Farhadi is currently the Vice President of the Canadian Association of Sociology of Education.