Committee

Alison Buckler is a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University where she is Co-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. She […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Glasgow. Michele held a number of BAICE Executive positions while in her previous job at the University of Birmingham, including Ordinary Member, Membership Secretary, Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair (2010-2012). She is also former editor of the journal Comparative Education and former Chair […]

Jennifer Agbaire is a Lecturer in Education at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University. She currently Chairs the Open University’s Masters in Education Stage 2 Inclusive Practice module and is the Deputy Chair of the dissertation module. She also co-leads Early Career Researcher (ECR) development at the OU’s Centre for […]

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 […]

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 […]

Jack is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on international higher education (regionalisation, transnational education, institutional partnerships, 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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.