Department Conference 2022

Sarah Jeffery

Sarah Jeffery

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.

Md Shajedur Rahman

Md Shajedur Rahman

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…

Yulia Nesterova

Yulia Nesterova

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…

Foster Gondwe

Foster Gondwe

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…

Basirat Razaq-Shuaib

Basirat Razaq-Shuaib

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…

Lindsey K. Horner

Lindsay Horner

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…

Jack Lee

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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 /…

Dilrabo Jonbekova

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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…

Emma Jackson

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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.…

Jennifer Jomafuvwe Agbaire

Jennifer Agbaire

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…

Michele Schweisfurth

Michele Schweisfurth

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…

Eleanor Brown

Eleanor 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…

Tejendra Pherali

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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…

David Turner

David Turner

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…