Dr Achala Gupta's research focuses on investigating educational issues sociologically.
She has explored practices and processes involving education delivery systems (formal and shadow) in Asia (India and China), and how higher education students are socially constructed in Europe (Denmark, England, Ireland, Germany, Poland, and Spain).
Her work has contributed to various topics (e.g., global shadow education, higher education, GenAI, student and teacher identity, and parental involvement) and concepts (e.g., policy enactment, Bourdieusian theory of practice).
She is Co-convenor of the Education Study Group of the British Sociological Association (BSA), Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Inclusion, University of Southampton, and Member of the editorial advisory board of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.