Bahar Haghighat

Bahar Haghighat is a PhD candidate in Education at Memorial University. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Alzahra University in Iran and a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Malaysia. She is completing a dissertation in the area of “embodiment studies” and the intersections of her lived and embodied experiences as an Iranian woman living in different cultures. 

Bahar has also been working with Memorial in various capacities with the School of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Students’ Union (GSU), and the Internationalization Office (IO).