Ibali Network Research Project – Vacancies for Ethnographers

11/01/2022 | ByBAICE

2x Part-time ethnographer roles on an exciting, innovative research project The Ibali Network is a collective of researchers from the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. In January we began a two-year UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded study with the title: Ibali: storying new discourses of educational inclusion/exclusion in the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. The research is focusing on the commonalities and differences of how inclusion and exclusion are experienced across education systems in these three countries….

In memory of Honorary BAICE Member, Professor Lalage Bown, who has died at 94

07/01/2022 | ByBAICE

Dr Tejendra Pherali, BAICE Chair and Dr Alison Buckler, BAICE Vice-Chair Neither of us can remember a BAICE conference or AGM where Professor Bown was not present. Despite being in her late 80s when we joined the BAICE Executive Committee, she was relentlessly interested in and involved in the work of the Association. She commanded attention when she spoke – most memorably for us when she sang the praises of the then BAICE President Professor Anna Robinson-Pant’s creative and interactive…

BAICE 2022 Early Career Conference – Call for Papers

28/10/2021 | ByBAICE

The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) Student Committee warmly welcomes your submissions to our 2022 Early Career conference, ‘Potential and challenges in education in today’s world’. The conference will take place as a virtual event on the 29th January 2022. We invite submissions from postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners engaged with education research. The deadline for submission is the 10th December 2021, 12 midnight (GMT).  Submissions are invited on any research topic concerned with the Potential and…

Call for Abstracts: Seventh Annual Qualitative Research Symposium (QRS)

22/10/2021 | ByBAICE

The Centre for Qualitative Research (CQR) at University of Bath is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Seventh Annual Qualitative Research Symposium (QRS) entitled: RESEARCHER VULNERABILITY Vulnerability is of vital consideration in qualitative research. As an interdisciplinary concept, vulnerability has been theorised within, for example, legal scholarship, feminisms, critical social and cultural theory, political science, or bioethics in relation to social, cultural, physical, psychological, financial, ethical, political, or legal dynamics. More than a susceptibility, risk, or exposure…

Call for Presentations: BAICE Student Thematic Forum November 2021

21/10/2021 | ByBAICE

Studying Comparative and International Education (CIE) in the global emergencies and uncertainties 29 Nov 2021, 11-1 online hosted by Bath Spa University Guest speakers: Rafael Mitchell , University of Bristol Michael Fertig, University of Bath This is an event of the BAICE-funded thematic forum series on ‘multi-stakeholders’ perspectives on learning and teaching of Comparative and International Education (CIE) during the global emergencies and uncertainties’. The event is a Student Forum for university students, especially taught degree students who are studying…

Call for Sub-theme Co-convenors for the Conference Committee for BAICE 2022

15/10/2021 | ByBAICE

The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) is recruiting sub-theme co-convenors for the Conference Committee for BAICE 2022 BAICE 2022 will be held in Edinburgh between 13th – 15th September 2022. The overarching theme of the conference is: Partnerships in education: collaboration, co-operation and co-optation BAICE 2022 will critically consider the changing relationships around how education is conceptualised, planned, implemented, provided, resisted, researched, and communicated in various contexts. While recognising the potential value of collaboration, we intend to…

Introducing the BAICE President (2021-2022)

06/10/2021 | ByBAICE

The BAICE Executive Committee are delighted to announce that the BAICE President for 2021-2022 is Professor Mario Novelli from the University of Sussex. Mario’s work focuses on education and peacebuilding in contexts of conflict which is a fantastic fit with BAICE 2022’s theme of partnerships in education, where Professor Novelli will deliver a keynote address. In his inaugural speech at the BAICE Annual General Meeting, Professor Novelli observed that an important feature of the field of International and Comparative Education is that…

New BAICE Research Networking Grant awarded

05/10/2021 | ByBAICE

BAICE has awarded £5000 to a team of researchers, led by Dr Priyank Shukla from Ulster University. Their project – Comparative and Interdisciplinary Education Research Network (CIERN) – aims to bring interdisciplinary and education researchers from Northern Ireland, England, and Italy to work towards Sustainable Development Goal – 4 (SDG-4): Quality Education and build transferable skills and research capacity on this important topic. Dr Shukla is PI, working with co-investigators Dr Una O’Connor Bones and Professor Stephen McClean from Ulster University, Dr Elizabeth…

Call for Applications: BAICE Student Representative 2021-2023

04/10/2021 | ByBAICE

Are you passionate about representing your fellow students? Do you feel you have a contribution to make to international and comparative education? Then, we would like to hear from you! We are looking for a new BAICE Student Representative who will join the BAICE Executive Committee in December 2021 until December 2023, to work alongside our current Student Representative, Emma Jackson. The commitment involves attending three Executive Committee Meetings each year and the BAICE/ UKFIET conference; the organisation of the…

New BAICE Executive Committee Members

28/09/2021 | ByBAICE

At the BAICE AGM last week, the Executive Committee was delighted to welcome and introduce two new Ordinary Members. Professor Sulochini Pather is from Leeds Trinity University, and Dr Jack Lee is from the University of Edinburgh. The BAICE Chair, Dr Tejendra Pherali, also introduced our first ever BAICE International Co-opted Member. Dr Dilrabo Jonbekova is from Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. This role is central to shaping BAICE’s international strategy, and becoming more inclusive of and relevant for our growing…