Compare is a leading journal of international and comparative education, publishing eight issues a year of high-quality articles on diverse issues of educational policy and practice around the world. It is the official journal of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½), which works to support activities of research, teaching and collaboration in the field. In order to maintain its significant global standing, one of °ä´Ç³¾±è²¹°ù±ð’s missions is to develop the diversity of its authorship, and support underrepresented groups, in light of the significant inequalities of global academic publishing. For this reason, in 2017 it established an annual Compare Fellowship, to support early career academics from the Global South in disseminating their research and scholarship to a global audience.

The fellowship will run from 1 September 2025 – 31 August 2026 and provides full financial support (including travel, accommodation and subsistence) and guidance from an academic mentor for the following activities:

• Attending and presenting at the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ conference 2026 (date and venue to be confirmed)
• Attending the Compare writers’ workshop at the conference (a full-day course for early career researchers)
• 1 – 2 week stay at an institution in the UK following the conference (to carry out library research, attend academic events, interact with colleagues and develop publication ideas with the guidance of a mentor)

While in their country of origin, the Compare Fellow will be expected to engage in the following activities:

• Participating in e-mentoring
• Developing an article for Compare
• Facilitating the organisation of activities to support academic writing for other academics in their institution/country
• Participating in Compare as a reviewer

Requirements of applicants

• To be based currently in a university in a low-income country (according to the World Bank classification [1])
• To have completed their doctoral degree within the last six years
• To be teaching or researching in the field of education

Application procedure

All applicants should send the following documents via email to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-455c9d@erapmoc

• CV / resume (including qualifications, professional experience and publications)
• Supporting statement of approximately 1000 words (outlining research interests, publication trajectory to date and future plans, and potential benefits of the fellowship for themselves and their institutions/countries)
• Abstract for a conference presentation (for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2026) on a research topic of their choice (300 words)

If contact has already been made with a potential institution and mentor in the UK, then candidates should state this; however, it is not essential to have arranged this beforehand as support will be given for this.

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 3 June 2025.

For further information, please contact Emma Arya-Manesh, ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-4454ba@erapmoc

[1] Afghanistan, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Dem. Rep., Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Korea, Dem. People’s Rep., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Uganda & Yemen, Rep.

The fellowship will run from 1 September 2024 – 31 August 2025 and provides  full financial support (including travel, accommodation and subsistence) and guidance from an academic mentor for the following activities:

• Attending and presenting at the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ conference in the University of Sussex, UK, 3  – 5 September 2024
• Attending the Compare writers’ workshop at the conference (a full-day course for early career researchers)
• 1 – 2 week stay at an institution in the UK following the conference (to carry out library research, attend academic events, interact with colleagues and develop publication ideas with the guidance of a mentor)

While in their country of origin, the Compare Fellow will be expected to engage in the following activities:

• Participating in e-mentoring
• Developing an article for Compare
• Facilitating the organisation of activities to support academic writing for other academics in their institution/country
• Participating in Compare as a reviewer

Requirements of applicants

• To be based currently in a university in a low-income country (according to the World Bank classification [1])
• To have completed their doctoral degree within the last six years
• To be teaching or researching in the field of education

Application procedure

All applicants should send the following documents via email to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-515323@erapmoc

• CV / resume (including qualifications, professional experience and publications)
• Supporting statement of approximately 1000 words (outlining research interests, publication trajectory to date and future plans, and potential benefits of the fellowship for themselves and their institutions/countries)
• Abstract for a conference presentation (for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½/UKFIET) on a research topic of their choice (300 words)

If contact has already been made with a potential institution and mentor in the UK, then candidates should state this; however, it is not essential to have arranged this beforehand as support will be given for this.

The deadline for applications is 8 April, 2024

For further information, please contact Emma Arya-Manesh, ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-4ba634@erapmoc

[1] Afghanistan, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Dem. Rep., Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Korea, Dem. People’s Rep., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Uganda & Yemen, Rep ().

Saturday 5th August – Sunday 6th August 2023

We are delighted to announce that the call for abstracts is now open for The British Association for Comparative International Education (ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½). The Student Committee warmly welcomes your submissions to our 2023 Annual Early Career conference, ‘Transformative education as a force for change: reflections and experiences from around the world’. The conference will be held over two days, hosted online via Zoom.

We invite submissions from postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners engaged with education research. The conference offers a dynamic and friendly environment for postgraduate researchers to showcase and discuss their research, even if the research is still in early stages. Attendees will be able to listen to colleagues from different areas of the Education Studies field; those presenting will be able to receive feedback in a diverse, constructive and academically rigorous environment.

We welcome innovative and creative submissions on any research topic concerned with ‘Transformative
education as a force for change: reflections and experiences from around the world’.
Please submit your 300 word abstract (excluding references) via this link: .

We would expect your abstract to include the following elements:

• Introduction: The goal and significance of the study
• Methods: Types of data (ex: primary or secondary data ) and methods of data collection (ex: interview, focus groups, survey, participant observation, literature review, document / dataset analysis etc.)
• Results: Summary of findings and analysis
• Discussion: Interpretations, conclusions, broader implications, future research

(Adapted from Elissa Jacobs, University Writing Program, 2020)

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday 3rd July (extended).
We are delighted to let you know that the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Early Career conference will be free to attend.

If you have any queries, please contact ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-8eec66@stneduts

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Student Committee

We invite submissions from postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners engaged with education research. The deadline for submission is the 10th December 2021, 12 midnight (GMT). 

Submissions are invited on any research topic concerned with the Potential and challenges in education, we welcome innovative and creative submissions.

Please submit your 500 word abstract via this link:

We are delighted to say that the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Early Career conference will be free to attend.

If you have any queries, please contact ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-49f7ba@stneduts.

The series has been updated with a new name and additional series editors, and will retain the Symposium series commitment to publishing high-quality research, emphasising work that bridges theory, policy and practice, supporting early career researchers and the publication of studies led by researchers in and from the global South.

Series Editors: Michael Crossley, Leon Tikly, Angeline M. Barrett, and Julia Paulson, University of Bristol, UK

Call for book proposals

The series aims to critically engage with education and international development from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.  As such it welcomes submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Social, epistemic, environmental and transitional justice viewed with a comparative sensibility;
• Sustainable development in the postcolonial world;
• Globalisation and the changing governance of education;
• Quality education for all, international agendas and global development goals;
• Education, peace, conflict and memory production;
• Environmental uncertainty, education and small island developing states (SIDS);
• Educational research capacity building and the co-production of knowledge;
• Theories, challenges and dilemmas of education policy transfer;
• Education policy and implementation;
• • Pedagogy and professional development;
• Language, learning and culture.

We have a global geographic focus combined with specific interests in African, South American, Asian and SIDS contexts where we are currently working in collaboration with local partners.

We are now proactively commissioning proposals for the series.  We welcome proposals for single or co-authored monographs, edited collections or ‘Shorts’ (academic work of between 30-50,000 words).

Contact us

If you would like to discuss ideas or submit a proposal please contact Michael Crossley, at ku.ca.lotsirbobfsctd-48a144@yelssorC.M or Philippa Grand, International Development Publisher, at ku.ca.lotsirbobfsctd-94c272@dnarg.appilihp.

The Centre for Research into the Education of Marginalised Children and Young Adults (CREMCYA) and the Bakhita Centre for Research on Slavery, Exploitation and Abuse (BCRSEA) at St Mary’s University present:

Towards decolonised futures: An interdisciplinary conference challenging the politics of knowing and being 

27th May 2021, Online (Zoom) 

Among scholars, postcolonialism and decolonisation have attracted great interest. From the earlier writings of Fanon and Said, to more recent contributions by scholars such as Quijano, Mignolo or Spivak, academic research has challenged Western dominance over knowledge production and its devaluation of indigenous ways of knowing and being.

This has great relevance for practitioners working in a variety of fields, including education, social work, international development and humanitarian assistance.

This conference aims to further deconstruct and unravel the notion of one universal way of knowing and being, focusing on the different ways of knowing (epistemic plurality) of those who are traditionally silenced and excluded from power – in academic terms often referred to as the ‘sub-altern’ or ‘the historically muted subject of the non-elite’ (Spivak 1999).

We are interested in critical theoretical and/or empirical research that examines how colonial and eurocentric practices and worldviews are reproduced; that decenters the politics of knowing and being; or that explores decolonised futures. We also welcome examples of decolonisation in contemporary practice.

Themes include, but are not limited to, decolonising the curriculum, legacies of slavery, settlerism and colonialism, justice in a postcolonial world, social movements for decolonisation, and the politics of knowledge production.

The conference explicitly welcomes research and good practices from across all disciplines and sectors, encouraging interdisciplinary and nontraditional (presentations of) research and practice.

In brief, we encourage people from all walks of life and identities to submit abstracts, including:

• Academics from all disciplines
• Government
• Practitioners
• Civil society
• Global citizens

Call for abstracts 

Deadline for submissions: 31st January 2021

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words for papers and alternative formats (800 words for symposia) including references.

Please save your abstract as follows: author’s name_name of the conference (EG: Johnson_DecolonisedFutures), and send it to ku.ca.syramtsobfsctd-22df6e@sneppuk.enil along with a brief biography and your contact details.