Glasgow, with its dynamic GLACIER (Glasgow Comparative and International Education Research) network and thriving community of CIE scholars offers a strong institutional base and a vibrant scholarly environment for this gathering.

In the coming months, we will share more conference updates and details through our newsletters and emails, including the opportunity to join the conference committee.

We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland.

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conference is held every two years, in September. It attracts around 300 colleagues. It is traditionally three days, preceded by a day of pre-conference events specifically for the ECR community. The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conference can be held at any higher education institution in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conference committee is made up of colleagues from the host institution, colleagues from the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee, and additional colleagues from the field, where appropriate (to be recruited following the formation of the committee). There are traditionally two conference Chairs with at least one being based at the host institution.

If you are interested in hosting ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2026 you are invited to share a short EOI of up to 500 words with:

• Your proposed theme and some suggested sub-themes
• Justification for the geographical location of the conference
• The names of colleagues (approx. 3-5) involved in the proposal (you can indicate a proposed conference chair although this is not essential at this point)
• Confirmation that you have had initial conversations with your institution about hosting ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2026, and that they are in support of the EOI
• Any additional relevant information (see ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ commitments below)

Please note that the EOI is an opportunity to share your initial ideas with the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee and we appreciate that at this point they will be in draft format.

While we enthusiastically welcome new ideas for the conference, ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ has a series of commitments that underpin our conference planning, which we expect hosts to honour. These include:

• Considerable efforts to keep registration costs low
• Efforts to challenge hierarchical academic norms
• An emphasis on inclusion and accessibility in relation to all aspects of organising and hosting
• Creative ideas for inspiring dialogical learning and shifting traditional conference formats (while keeping inclusion/access in mind)
• Efforts to connect conference activities with local communities and relevant interest groups / supporting local businesses where possible.

Please note that ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ has a fantastic conference support team, whose extensive skill-set can be drawn on as required, creating a tailored support package that aligns with institutional administrative support. ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conferences are non-profit, and all surplus funds are re-invested into conference accessibility and engagement (or ring-fenced as seed-funding for future events). While the successful conference committee will lead on the development of the budget, we will provide support with this. As a result, there is no need to submit a budget with the EOI, although if there are any key financial issues that might affect your institution hosting the conference, please let us know in the EOI.

Please email your EOI to Alison Buckler, ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-60727f@riahc, by Friday 28 February 2025.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

We are delighted to announce that the registration portal for The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ early career conference is . This year, our conference theme is ‘Global Crises, Continuities, and Change: Imagining Educational Responses in an (Un)certain World’ where we wish to draw together new and returning delegates to the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ ECR Community to network, showcase and discuss.

This year’s conference includes brilliant presentations, conversations, storytelling and posters from practitioners and ECRs across the world; a keynote address by Tejendra Pherali, Chair of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ and Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace at IOE, University College London; a workshop on storytelling and a fabulous roundtable!

The deadline for registration for the free conference is 14th July 2024, 12 midnight (GMT).

We look forward to seeing you!

For any questions relating to the event, please email ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-91cc05@stneduts

Warmly,

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Student Committee

We are delighted to announce that the call for participation is now open for The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ early career conference. The Student Committee warmly welcomes your submissions to our 2024 Annual Early Career Conference, ‘Global Crises, Continuities, and Change: Imagining Educational Responses in an (Un)certain World’. The free conference will be held over two days and 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 you to showcase and discuss your research, even if the research is still in its 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 ‘Global Crises, Continuities, and Change: Imagining Educational Responses in an (Un)certain World’.

Please submit your 300-word proposal (excluding references) via this link:   (if the link is not clickable, kindly copy-paste it to the address bar of your web browser)

Submission formats:

• Presentations: A 10-minute presentation with a clear introduction, method, results, discussion and impact followed by a 5-minute Q&A with the audience.
• Conversations: A 10-minute discussion of the research project summary, followed by a 5-minute discussion with the audience (PowerPoints not necessary).
• Storytelling: A 10-minute storytelling session using mainly pictures/postcards/drawings to narrate the project, followed by a 5-minute discussion with the audience.
• Posters: Digital posters specifying the project introduction, method, results, discussion, and impact. Each poster will be allotted a total of 10 minutes, including display, presentation, and Q&A.

The deadline for proposal submission is 31st May 2024, 12 midnight (GMT).

We look forward to seeing you online on 20th and 21st July 2024!

For any questions relating to the event, please email ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-390ccd@stneduts

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Student Committee

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conference 2024

University of Sussex

3 – 5 September

Conference Sub-themes

The conference will have five sub-themes. Each sub-theme will be led by three co-convenors: one from the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee, one from CIE, and one from the wider ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ community (an academic, doctoral scholar or practitioner from an external organisation or institution, or an independent researcher active in the field of international and comparative education). The sub-themes are:

Role of Co-convenors

The role of the Co-convenors will include:

• Contributing to the overall conference strategy through email and regular attendance at conference planning meetings. Meetings will be primarily online. Please note that the inaugural conference committee will be on Monday 18 Dec, 1-2pm by zoom – please pencil this date in as we would like as many committee members to attend as possible.
• To work with their sub-theme team to develop the narrative for the sub-theme which will establish the criteria for abstracts submitted under that sub-theme.
• To review submitted abstracts for their sub-theme.
• To organise sessions for their sub-theme in consultation with the conference committee to ensure a coherent programme, including identifying and contacting chairs and contributors for sessions.
• To oversee the smooth running of conference sessions within their sub-theme
• To contribute to a conference committee working group (e.g. keynote team, inclusion, ECR, comms and publicity, etc)
• To contribute a short blog piece for the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ blog on a key idea from within their sub-theme. This will be used to promote the conference.

In recognition of the time and effort required in the role of co-convenor, ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ will cover the full cost of conference attendance including three days of registration, accommodation and subsistence, and standard class travel from within the UK.

How to Apply

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2024 engages with global developments and crises with the aim of fostering dialogue across borders in a variety of understandings: disciplinary, theoretical, methodological, pedagogical, international, South-North as well as geographical, planetary and political. We invite engagement on how various crises are shaping and transforming the work of educators and stakeholders, and the lives of those we work with, and query whether and how our own work in international and comparative education might reinforce borders. We also look to where and what are the spaces for transgression which resist or challenge increasingly hegemonic knowledge systems and power structures in education. This calls for a radical reimagining and rehumanising of the work of education, one that goes beyond rhetoric and towards a radical re-bordering of education.

Tuesday 3^rd – Thursday 5^th September 2024

The University of Sussex, UK

Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is our guest keynote speaker and will be opening our conference with a keynote called “Strategic Approaches to Building and Maintaining Partnerships in Education”.

Professor Mario Novelli is the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ President and will be closing the conference with a keynote called “Politics, Power and Partnerships: The Imperial Past and Present of International Education and Development”.

You can read more about their work at /baice-conference-2022/keynote-speakers/.

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2022 will be held in Edinburgh between 13^th – 15^th September 2022. The overarching theme of the conference is: Partnerships in education: collaboration, co-operation and co-optation

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2022 will critically consider the changing relationships around how education is conceptualised, planned, implemented, provided, resisted, researched, and communicated in various contexts. While recognising the potential value of collaboration, we intend to challenge the normative, aspirational pursuit of partnership.

There are six sub-themes:

• Global/local (dis)connections in education partnerships
• Experiencing education partnerships
• Technology and education partnerships
• Partnerships in education financing
• Partnerships in conflict contexts
• Open theme (papers that do not necessarily link to one of the sub-themes but have a clear resonance with the overarching conference theme – please note that this sub-theme will not have co-convenors so please do not apply to co-convene this theme)

Each sub-theme will be led by two co-convenors. One from the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee and one from an external organisation or institution, or an independent consultant active in the field of international and comparative education.

The Conference Committee will be made up of the co-chairs, Dr Jingyi Li (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Alison Buckler (The Open University), a conference manager, and up to twelve sub-theme co-convenors.

The role of the Co-convenors will include:

• Contributing to the overall conference strategy through email and regular attendance at conference planning meetings. Meetings will be primarily online until further notice.
• To work with the partnering co-convenor and the conference committee to develop a brief narrative for the sub-theme which will establish the criteria for abstracts submitted under that sub-theme.
• To review submitted abstracts for their sub-theme.
• To organise sessions for their sub-theme in consultation with the conference committee to ensure a coherent programme, including identifying and contacting chairs and contributors for sessions within their sub-theme.
• To support contingency planning in the event that the conference will need to move to be fully online as a result of Covid-19.
• To oversee the smooth running of conference sessions within their sub-theme
• To contribute a short blog piece for the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ blog on a key idea from within their sub-theme. This will be used to promote the conference.

In recognition of the time and effort required in the role of co-convenor, ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ will cover the full cost of conference attendance including three days of registration, accommodation and subsistence, and standard class travel from within the UK.

We invite expressions of interest in this role from colleagues working in the field of international and comparative education. Applicants must be a member of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½, or willing to join the association if invited onto the conference committee. Please send a summary CV (maximum two pages) and a short note (maximum one page) outlining your expertise and the sub-theme you would like to be considered for (more information about the sub-themes will be published on the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conference page on the website). Please email these to the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Secretary, Dr Jennifer Agbaire, ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-3fa5a0@yraterces by Friday 5^th November 2021.

We are currently planning and hoping for an in-person conference. However, we will also incorporate virtual sessions and events to include those who are not able to travel, and of course we will have a contingency plan to move online if necessary.

The theme of the conference will be Partnerships in education: collaboration, co-operation and co-optation. We invite papers and contributions that critically consider the changing relationships around how education is conceptualised, planned, implemented, provided, resisted, researched and communicated in various contexts. While recognising the potential value of collaboration, we intend to challenge the normative, aspirational pursuit of partnership.

Some of you may remember that this was our tentative theme for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 2020 which we had to cancel because of the pandemic. However, we feel these issues are even more pertinent within the context of Coronavirus which has highlighted global interconnectedness and challenged geopolitics of knowledge and expertise.

We will shortly be putting a call out for applications for up to six colleagues from the international and comparative education community to join our conference committee. This is a really exciting opportunity to contribute to the overall conference strategy, co-lead and shape conference sub-themes and oversee the smooth running of the conference.

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Exec look forward to welcoming you to our conference next year!

The workshop is funded by the British Association of International and Comparative Education and facilitated by Prof Anna Robinson-Pant from the University of East Anglia and Dr. Germ Janmaat, from the UCL Institute of Education and current Compare Editor. Prof. Robinson-Pant was previously editor of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s journal, Compare, and in this capacity, launched the Compare writing mentoring programme for new academics, which has been running for over 10 years.

Through comparing published research articles with the theses on which they are based, we will identify how the authors have used their research data in order to:

• speak to different audiences
• contribute to academic ‘conversations’
• meet different journal criteria.

During the workshop we will:

• look at key features of academic research articles
• discuss the process of developing a paper or papers, based on your thesis
• look at the process of submitting a paper to peer -reviewed journals.

The workshop is open to all attending UKFIET conference. Free of charge, but places are limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis (for those whose applications meet the criteria). To apply for this workshop, please email ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-894558@erapmoc and include the following details:

Name

Address

Telephone

Institution at which you are studying for your PhD and year of study

If you are an Early Career Researcher, please give details of your current role

Your research topic

Your research question/s

Briefly describe any writing you have done so far (e.g. draft of literature review)

Any previous publications

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Graduate Student Conference 2019

Climbing down to reality: The doctoral fieldwork process, practice and propositions

The Open University, Walton Hall, Stuart Hall Building, Kents Hill, MK7 6AA

Wed, 26 June 2019

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Graduate Student Conference 2019 invites graduate students to submit abstracts addressing issues related to conducting Comparative and International Education (CIE) research.

The conference seeks to provide a space for doctoral students of CIE to critically examine the concept but more importantly, the practice of fieldwork. The Conference will move beyond a narrow view of fieldwork which synonymises fieldwork with challenges, towards a temporal consideration of fieldwork as a seminal point during the doctoral cycle before and after which certain decisions may be made, reviewed, modified or perhaps more common, unmade.

The Conference aims to:

• provide a forum for students to reflect upon their pre-fieldwork expectations (and anticipations) and share their post-fieldwork experiences and lessons learned;
• facilitate productive and critical discussions about issues relating to fieldwork among doctoral students and members of the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee;
• offer a combination of specialist inputs from keynote speakers and opportunities for doctoral students to disseminate their own research;
• provide participants with a comfortable and supportive environment to receive constructive feedback on their research; and
• foster research networks which extend beyond students’ own institutions.

The deadline for submissions is June 10, 2019 (Extended)

For more information on abstract submissions and conference registration, visit /event/baice-graduate-student-conference-2019/

The People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network has teamed up with the REAL Centre at the Faculty of Education, Cambridge, to launch the 2019 Student Paper Competition in recognition of the outstanding contributions of Master’s and PhD students using Citizen-led Assessment (CLA) data.

The PAL Network is a south-south partnership of 14 countries working across three continents to assess the basic reading and numeracy competencies of all children, in their homes, through annual citizen-led assessments.

The aim of the programme is to find out whether all children are acquiring basic skills – the building blocks of future progress in school – in countries where the information would not otherwise be available. Inclusive and equitable data produced by the assessments is used to inform citizen-led action to improve learning.

The PAL Network is inviting current and recently-graduated Master’s and PhD students to submit their empirical work as an entry into the 2019 Student Paper Competition.

Selected authors of the two winning papers will win a fully-funded trip to present their research at the PAL Network biennial conference on 5-6 March 2019 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Entrants should submit a 500-word abstract and full paper (length 6000 words excluding tables, figures and references). Please include your name, your affiliated university, CLA data used and contact details.

Winners must commit to attend the PAL Network meetings at the conference.

Submissions should be sent to: ku.ca.mac.cudeobfsctd-2e451b@ertneCLAER and gro.krowtenlapobfsctd-39926c@ecnerefnoc, Please use the subject line Student Paper Competition.

Entry deadline for the competition is 30 November 2018. The winners will be announced by 15 January 2019.

3 May 2018
School of Education, University of Bristol, UK

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½, the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) will be hosting a one-day symposium on the 3rd of May 2018 at the School of Education, University of Bristol. This symposium will bring together diverse perspectives on education and sustainability, including those drawn from the study of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), sustainability within development studies, and sustainable peace. The Symposium aims to critically interrogate the SDG agenda, but also to explore the creative possibilities through which educational policies, practices, pedagogies and processes might embody or enable improved sustainability.

The day will be a mixed format of keynote presentation and interactive break-out sessions.

Further information: /event/baice-20th-anniversary-symposium/