BAICE Student Representatives

Your Student Representatives are responsible for bringing the student voice to the Executive Committee Meetings and organising Student Activities, including conferences and events that are tailored to students’ needs. Your Student Representatives are:

Kike Ladipo

Kike Ladipo

Kike Ladipo is a doctoral student in the School of Education at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on the impact of student voice on quality in higher education. She has extensive experience across student support, quality assurance, accreditation, academic planning, policy and teacher education. Currently, Kike works as an Educational Researcher at the Oxford Centre of Academic Enhancement and Development (OCAED) at Oxford Brookes University where she is involved in a range of pedagogic and evaluative educational research on the reach, value and impact of Projects for Enhancing the Student Experience.  Her professional, research, impact and volunteer work centre on innovation, reform, social inequalities, educational inclusion, equity and social justice in marginalised communities.

Surya Pratap Deka

Surya Pratap Deka

Surya is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. His current engagement with educational research builds on his experience as a teacher, teacher educator, and non-profit leader in India. Through Flourishing Minds Foundation, an organisation he founded in 2011, he runs a free, learning centre in rural Maharashtra for children and families from marginalised communities. Along with this grassroots work, he has engaged extensively with the larger educational ecosystem – schools, government bodies, multinational agencies, and NGOs – to enrich the research-practice interaction. Currently, his research work is focused on mental health and education in the Global South. He is from Assam, India.