BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR
INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

Alison Buckler

Alison is a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University where she is convenor of the International Education research group and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Development. Her work focuses on using creative and narrative approaches to researching education, and she is the co-founder of the Ibali Network which supports people interested in using storytelling methodologies.

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Re-imagining and re-bordering conference spaces and edges: anticipatory reflections from the coordinators of BAICE 2024’s Borderless sub-theme

The theme for BAICE 2024 calls for a ‘radical re-imagining’ and ‘re-bordering’ of the work of education that goes beyond the rhetoric. Our starting point for the borderless sub-theme was a desire to reimagine (some of) the borders within the parallel-session convention of academic conferences.

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‘Out-of-school girls’: do we need to re-think the terminology?

For the past decade we have been working on a range of research and practitioner initiatives with adolescent and young women in southern Africa. Their lives have been distinct and diverse, with periods of financial comfort and stability as well as poverty and uncertainty.

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Ibali: co-creating learning spaces in and through storytelling research activities

Group of people painting and sketching on a collaborative artwork

In the ‘Experiencing Education Partnerships’ Sub-theme at the BAICE 2022 conference, we will do a creative session on storytelling as a research approach, drawing on our experiences of using the approach in international research.

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BAICE Creative sessions: What do innovative spaces look like?

We’ve had a long wait for the BAICE Conference at Edinburgh after BAICE 2020 was cancelled due to the pandemic. But BAICE 2022 is coming back with style and lots of innovative ideas to make the conference more diverse, inclusive…

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Storytelling research in international education and development: a resistance to, or reproduction of coloniality?

Storytelling is gaining popularity as a methodology in the field of international education and development. It is seen to offer an antidote to modernist, big-data research that positions people at the centre of interventions as homogenous and, instead, connect the…

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Compare: Journal of Comparative and International Education – A reflection on the 50th Anniversary Retrospective

It is poignant that Compare’s juncture of a half century and subsequent opportunity for contemplation of past, present and future came in a year in which academics were forced to pause and reflect on so many other levels: the uncertainties of Brexit and its implications for travel, funding and collaboration