Eleanor Joanne Brown

Eleanor is a senior lecturer at the University of York, where she is based in the Centre for Research in Education and Social Justice. Prior to this Eleanor worked as a qualitative researcher at the University of Nottingham. Her primary research interests are in sustainable development and global citizenship education and education for social justice. She works in formal and non-formal educational settings as well as NGOs, social movements and communities. Eleanor's research focuses on critical, participative and de-colonising approaches to knowledge and alternative spaces for learning, and her projects have been conducted in the UK, Spain, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand and Cambodia.