Department Honorary Fellows

Keith Lewin (PhD, MSc, BSc, FAcSS, C.Phys) is the Emeritus Professor of International Development and Education at the University of Sussex. He has degrees in physics, science policy and development and has worked as a consultant on development in Asia…

Angela W Little FAcSS is Professor Emerita at the University College London Institute of Education, where she held the Chair of Education and International Development between 1987 and 2010. She began her career in international and comparative education in 1971…

Rosemary Preston researched development in Andean America, the South Pacific and southern Africa, with multi-disciplinary studies of labour and refugee migration, post-war reconstruction and partnerships, prioritising gender, inclusion and community, latterly in contexts of lifelong learning. As Director of the…

Educational planner, particularly interested in policy, planning, management and financing of African education systems and international (especially Commonwealth) educational co-operation and student mobility. Founding Secretary (now Hon President) of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education, long-time member of the Council for…

Rosalind Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Education at Ulster University where she was Head of the School of Education and Co-ordinator of Research. Her research interests are in higher education, especially German/British comparisons (neo-liberalism;institutional mergers and linkages;gender issues);also ESOL (especially…

Fiona Leach is Professor Emerita of Education at the University of Sussex. She worked in Africa as a teacher and education adviser for many years before becoming an academic. She has published widely in the field of gender and education,…

Lynn Davies is Emeritus Professor of International Education at the University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the social enterprise ConnectFutures. Her interests are in education and conflict, and education and extremism, and she has done research and consultancy in a…

Lore Arthur was Senior Lecturer at the Open University’s Faculty of Education responsible for the postgraduate programme of lifelong learning. She has researched and published widely in comparative (adult) education, lifelong learning, higher education and foreign language learning. Lore joined…

Kenneth King was Director of the Centre of African Studies and Professor of International and Comparative Education at Edinburgh University for many years. He is now Emeritus Professor in its Schools of Education and of Social and Political Studies. His…

Malcolm Mercer has had over 50 years of practical experience in education and development in roughly 70 countries, starting off as a remedial teacher in an English secondary technical modern school and later going on as a volunteer to work…