Ministry of Science, Research and Technology

First Name: Somayeh

Last Name: Fereidouni

Phone Number:+98-2123517118

Email: fereidouniirphe.ac.ir

1. PhD, Higher Education Administration, 2013, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN.

Thesis Title: Female Empowerment through Higher Education: A Grounded Theory Approach

2. Master, Educational Administration, 2008, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, IRAN.

Thesis Title: Creative Attitudes of Administrators in Iranian Higher Education Organizations

1. Assistant Professor of Institution for Research and Planning in Higher Education (IRPHE), from 2016 up now
2. Member of Science Data Monitoring Committee in the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, From 2017 up Now
3. Consultant of the RAHMAN Non-Government Organization (NGO), From 2018 up Now.
4. Member of the Family Economic and Proper Life Style Textbook Compilation Committee in Educational Research and Curriculum Institution (Education Ministry), From 2016 up to Now
5. Researcher of Female and Family Department in Center for Strategic Research of Expediency Discernment Council, From 2011-14.

1. Education and Gender
2. Sociology of Higher Education
3. Female Empowerment through Higher Education
4. Qualitative Research Approach
5. Grounded Theory

1. Fereidouni, S. (2021). Mission-based university in Iran; A case of Guilan University. Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. Tehran: Iran.
2. Fereidouni, S. (2021). Lived experience of female faculties about work life balance. Institution for Socio Cultural Studies. Tehran: Iran.
3. Fereidouni, S. (2019). The policy research on higher education expansion in Iran. Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. Tehran: Iran.
4. Fereidouni, S. (2018). Reflection on female situation in Iranian official documents. Institution for Socio Cultural Studies. Tehran: Iran.
5. Fereidouni, S. (2018). Ideal family from students’ points of views. Organization for Educational Research and Planning. Tehran: Iran.
6. Fereidouni, S. (2017). Higher education expansion in Iran; A grounded theory approach. Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. Tehran: Iran.
7. Rezai-Rashti, G., & Fereidouni, S. (2016). Project of women and higher education in Iran. Western University. Ontario: Canada.
8. Sakurai, K., & Fereidouni, s. (2011). Higher education in Iran. Waseda University. Tokyo: Japan.

1. Research Methods
2. Teaching Methods
3. Narrative Studies
4. Content Analysis of the Textbooks
5. Qualitative Assessment
6. Teaching Strategies
7. Design of Teaching Unite
8. Internship for New Teachers

1. Qualitative Research for Higher Education Administration Students (M.A), From 2016- 2018
2. Annual Workshops for Qualitative Research. From 2014 up Now

1. Fereidouni. S. (In press). Female students in Iranian higher education; Gender analysis of the Official Documents. Institution for Socio Cultural Studies. Tehran: Iran.
2. Fereidouni. S. (2021). Narration of higher education expansion in Iran; From females empowerment to developing. Academic Center for Education, Cultural and Research. Tehran: Iran
3. MirmohamadSadeghi, M., & Fereidouni, S. (2019). Family economics and life style. (Textbook for secondary education grade 12). Organization for educational research and planning. Tehran: Iran.
4. Fereidouni, S. (2017). Females Narrative from academic life experience. Tehran: Iran, JameeShenasan press. (Received Sediqeh Dowlatabadi's first prize in gender studies).

1. Fereidouni, S. (2020). Making value in order to facing crisis of higher education massification. Quarterly Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. 8 (16), 41-62. (In Persian)
2. Rezai-Rashti, G., & Fereidouni, S. (2019). The voice of female student in Iranian university: The unintended consequences of university education. In G. Rezaee-Rashti, G. Mehran, & Sh, Abdmolaei (Eds.), Women, Islam, and Education in Iran (pp. 35-50). New York and London: Routledge.
3. Fereidouni, S. (2020). An Investigation of the concept of an ideal family from students’ points of view. Journal of Research and Family. 17 (1), 41-62 (In Persian)
4. Fereidouni, S., Rashidi, Z. (2019). Higher education expansion in Iran and socio-cultural transformation; Agency of female students. Quarterly Journal of Socio-Cultural Development Studies. 8 (1), 85-108. (In Persian).
5. Fereidouni, S., Rouhani, S. (2019). Higher education expansion policy in Iran and its impact on educational justice. Journal of Research and Planning in Higher Education. 25 (2), 1-21. (In Persian).
6. Fereidouni, S., Rashidi, Z. (2019). Cultural consequences of higher education expansion in Iran. Journal of Iran Future Studies. 4 (1), 29-49
7. Memari, S., Khanifar, H., Mehran, G., Yazdani, H., & Fereidouni, S. (2019). Examining the concept of sexual health of adolescent students from the perspective of experts with a focus on parent education. Journal of Research Health Science.  8 (3), 247-59. (In Persian).
8. Fereidouni, S. (2017). Higher education expansion with emphasis on social consequences; A grounded theory approach. Journal of Research and Planning in Higher Education. 86, 69-96. (In Persian).
9. Fereidouni S., Mehran, G., Mansourian Y., (2015), Female Empowerment in Iran: The Voice of Iranian University Students, Higher Education Quarterly Journal, 2015, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 366-385.
10. Fereidouni S., Mehran, G., Mansourian Y., (2015), Female Empowerment Through Higher Education, Qurterly Journal of the Sociology of Social Institution, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 107-137.
11. Fereidouni S., Mehran, G., Mansourian Y., (2014), Female Situation in Iranian Higher Education; Gender Analysis of the Official Documents, Quarterly Of Women, Law and Development, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1-30.
12. Fereidouni S., Mehran, G., (2013), Reflection on Female Empowerment; Components and Processes, Quarterly of Cultural Management, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 71-88.

1. Fereidouni, S. (2021). Reflection on the concept of educational justice in higher education. Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. Tehran: Iran.
2. Fereidouni, S. (2020). Research priorities in the institution for Research and Planning in higher education (IRPHE) during 5 next years. Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. Tehran: Iran.
3. Fereidouni, S. (2020). Pathology of Indigenous Policies in Student Admission. Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. Tehran: Iran.
4. Fereidouni, S. (2019). Reflection on the policies for higher education expansion in Iran. Islamic Parliament Research Center. Tehran: Iran.
5. Fereidouni, S. (2019). Comparative study on the higher education structure in the given countries in order to downsizing university in Iran. Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Tehran: Iran.

1. 65th Annual Conference Comparative and International Education Society (CIES, 2021). ‘Gender Stereotypes among Iranian Teens and Their Footprint on Female Labor Market: The Origin of the Taste’. The 2021 CIES conference will take place virtually April 25 – May 2.
2. International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR19). “Job or Marriage; the choice of Iranian Student Girls and Its Implications on Females Participation in Labor Market”, Ipazia, the Scientific Observatory on Gender Issues at Roma Tre University, Rome on the 11th – 12th April 2019
3. 2nd International Higher Education Studies Conference (IHEC) 2017. "Females and Access to Higher Education: Iranian Universities' Experience", Antalya, Turkey. 12 - 14 October
4. CIES Conference; Six Dedicate of Comparative and International Education: Taking Stock and looking Forward. 2016. "Islam, women and education: Educating women in the Islamic Republic of Iran" Vancouver. March 6-10
5. XV World Congress of Comparative Education, 2013. "Development of Post Graduate Education in IRAN, Islamic Republic; Social Consequences for Girls" . Buenos Aires, Argentina, 24th to 28th - June,
6. The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS), The Ninth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, 1-5 August 2012 “Redefinition of Empowerment: The Experience of Female University Students in the Islamic Republic of IRAN”
7. 55th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, 2011, “The Narrative of the Female University Students’ Experience in the Islamic Republic of IRAN: How They Feel Empowered”
8. World Congress Comparative Education Society, 2010, (WCCES) “A study of the Female Higher Education Experience in the Islamic Republic of IRAN”