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Closing the Loop: What a Kenyan Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme Taught Me About Learning, Listening, and Adaptive Decision-Making

13/08/2026

Children in Gaza

Rebuilding Education After Conflict: Why Healing Must Come Before Textbooks

13/07/2026

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‘Ordinary Magic’ in Extraordinary Times: Ukrainian children’s agency and resilience despite conflict-related educational disruption

09/06/2026

A richly detailed hand-drawn illustration summarising the PhD@CAM research project, titled "PhD@CAM: What it Takes, Breaks & Makes". The image is organised around a central oval depicting a world map, surrounded by thematic sections. To the left, "Enablers" include a caring college community, scholarship, supportive supervisors, cutting-edge facilities, and professional networks. Also on the left, "Notions of Success" are described as relational, evolving constructs involving growing knowledge and a maturing disposition. The central section depicts experiences of Global Southern identities, including logistical barriers, visa challenges, cultural differences, discrimination, and contrasting positive experiences of safety, solidarity, and agentic meaning-making. To the right, "Challenges" include lack of representation, institutional rigidity, financial strain, imposter syndrome, isolation, and grief. "Recommendations for the university" include supportive spaces, mental health support, and unconscious bias training. "Recommendations for students" include building friend networks, understanding academic norms, and prioritising self-care. Flags representing various Global South countries appear at the bottom centre. Illustrated by Seekan Hui

Rethinking Doctoral Success in UK Higher Education: Insights from Global South Student Experiences

26/05/2026

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Area Studies in Chinese Universities (2011-2025): Borders, Silent Borrowing, and Chinese Epistemology

20/05/2026

A busy street crossing in central Tokyo, Japan. Pedestrians wait at the kerb beneath a large glass skyscraper bearing a colourful digital advertisement in Japanese. Yellow tactile paving lines the pavement edge. A green double-decker bus and white van are visible in the background traffic.

Between Immersion and Isolation: Living the Field in Tokyo

08/05/2026

Israeli checkpoint block in the West Bank

Knowledge, Partnerships, and Learning Under Scholasticide

05/05/2026

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When Silence Is Misread: Culture, Compliance, and Voice in Diverse Classrooms

05/05/2026

Traveller wagons

When Inclusion Depends on Performance: What Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students reveal about knowledge mobilisation in higher education

05/05/2026

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I Still Remember Being That Girl: Reflections on Becoming an Education Researcher for Social Justice

16/04/2026

Wind farm in a semi-arid rural setting

‘How do we know who to believe?’: Indian secondary students navigating misinformation on climate change

06/03/2026

Rural Sindh, Pakistan

Between belonging and distance; positionality and critical reflexivity in rural Sindh

27/02/2026