Committee

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Alison Buckler

Conference Co-Chair

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

Jingyi Li

Conference Co-Chair

Jingyi Li is a sociologist with research interests in education policy, curriculum development, and citizenship education. She holds a PhD in Education and a MSc in Childhood Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a MA in Social Policy and Administration from the University of Nottingham. Her doctorate research was on national curriculum development in China. After completing her PhD …

David Turner

Theme Co-convenor: Partnerships and the financing of education

Professor David Andrew Turner is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Wales, UK, and Professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Education (IICE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. He has extensive experience of teaching in schools and universities in the UK, including working as admissions tutor for several postgraduate programmes. He is the author of several …

Tejendra Pherali

Theme Co-convenor: Partnerships in conflict contexts

Tejendra Pherali is Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace at UCL Institute of Education, University College London. His research engages with educational debates in low- and middle-income contexts and politics of ‘international development’. He is particularly interested in education policies and practice in contexts of forced displacement and post-war settings and in the role of education in peacebuilding. Tejendra currently …

Eleanor Brown

Theme Co-convenor: Open Theme

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 …

Michele Schweisfurth

BAICE Co-Opted Exec Member (Conference Expertise)

Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Glasgow. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UK Department for International Development, and a member of the Independent Evaluation Committee for the Global Partnership for Education. Michele held a number of BAICE Executive positions while in her previous job at the University of Birmingham, …

Jennifer Jomafuvwe Agbaire

Theme Co-convenor: Experiencing education partnerships

Dr Jennifer Jomafuvwe Agbaire is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies in The Open University, UK, where she is managing and researching on the Ibali Network AHRC-funded project on storytelling and the educational inclusion of young people in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK. She is also an independent Research Associate on an IDRC-funded …

Emma Jackson

BAICE Student Representative

Emma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Education and a Research Associate at the Centre of Applied Human Rights at the University of York. Her work focuses on higher education and marginalised groups and the protection of knowledge. She is particularly interested in collaborative research approaches and digital storytelling. Emma has been a member of BAICE since 2015 …

Dilrabo Jonbekova

BAICE Co-Opted Exec Member (International)

Dilrabo is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. Her research focuses on the interplay between education and labour markets. Within this area, she focuses on the transition of graduates from university to job market and potential socio-economic inequalities in the employability of graduates. She is also interested in international education and development. …

Jack Lee

Theme Co-convenor: Open Theme

Jack is a Lecturer in Comparative Education and Education Policy at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on international higher education (transnational education, institutional partnerships, regionalisation, national policies, student and faculty mobility). He is particularly interested in global / national / local dynamics in the context of the Global South. Jack has worked in the higher education sectors of …

Thushari Welikala

Theme Co-convenor: Global-local (dis)connections in education partnerships

Dr Thushari Welikala is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Innovation and Development at the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education at St George’s, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. Being an Educational Developer, her teaching has always been transdisciplinary. She has experience in teaching postgraduate students …

Lindsey K. Horner

Theme Co-convenor: Partnerships in conflict contexts

My field of research and teaching is Education and International Development, specialising in critical peace education, peacebuilding education and participatory research. My doctoral research explored critical peace education as the interactions of a multifarious understanding of peace and practices to facilitate moving these understandings forward (the work of translating peace) in conflict effected communities in Mindanao. The commitment to social …

Basirat Razaq-Shuaib

Theme Co-convenor: Partnerships and the financing of education

Basirat is a second year PhD researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is also the founder of The Winford Centre for Children and Women- a charity that provides education and welfare support services for children with developmental disabilities and their families in Nigeria. Basirat is currently researching the perspectives and lived experiences of children with Neurodevelopmental …

Foster Gondwe

Theme Co-convenor: Partnerships and Technology

Foster Gondwe is a Lecturer in Instructional Technology at the University of Malawi. He received the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship and earned his Ph.D. in Education at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is specialized in educational development, including content areas of instructional technology, faculty development, comparative education, and teacher education and professionalization. A …

Yulia Nesterova

Theme Co-convenor: Global-local (dis)connections in education partnerships

Yulia Nesterova is Lecturer in International and Comparative Education at the University of Glasgow. Yulia’s research interests centre around inequalities and injustices in education and partnerships and community/youth engagement for quality education and learning, peace and justice. She is working on a large project investigating spatial inequalities in education in 14 cities in seven countries across Africa and Asia and …

Md Shajedur Rahman

Theme Co-convenor: Experiencing education partnerships

Md Shajedur Rahman is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Open University UK. Under this fellowship programme, he has been developing a framework for professional collaboration for primary teachers in Bangladesh. During his PhD, Rahman has developed interests in Teachers Professional Development (TPD) in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and other resource-restricted contexts, International and Comparative Education, Ethnography …

Sarah Jeffery

Conference Manager

Sarah is a freelance conference manager and project co-ordinator, having previously worked with CfBT Education Trust (now Education Development Trust). Sarah has a wealth of experience in planning and managing conferences for different clients.