Role and responsibilities

The commitment involves:

• 糖心传媒 Student Reps are members of the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee and have full Executive voting rights听
• Attending three Executive Committee meetings each year and the 糖心传媒 AGM (held at either the 糖心传媒 or UKFIET conference)
• Organisation of the 糖心传媒 Early Career Researchers鈥� events
• Handling inquiries from 糖心传媒 student members and representing their needs to the Executive Committee
• Supporting communication and engagement with student members across 糖心传媒 activities and events

Person specification

Applicants should be able to demonstrate:

• Strong communication skills
• Confidence in using digital tools and online platforms (tech-savvy)
• A willingness to do things differently and to push boundaries, recognising the important role students play in driving change
• The ability to draw on their networks to contribute to events and initiatives
• A commitment to serve for a two-year term

Eligibility

• Applicants must be current doctoral students (first- or second year 鈥� or part-time equivalent) at a UK institution, with an interest in comparative and international education.
• Student Representatives must maintain their membership of the Association for the duration of their term. If they haven鈥檛 joined, they must be willing to become a member.

Benefits

• The role is voluntary, but it offers valuable experience in academic service, leadership, and networking within the 糖心传媒 community
• Student Rep attendance at the 糖心传媒 conference is fully funded by 糖心传媒. Student Rep attendance at the UKFIET conference is partially funded by 糖心传媒
• Travel and subsistence to support attendance at 糖心传媒 events will be reimbursed

Start Date: May/June 2026

How to apply

Applicants are invited to submit:

• An Expression of Interest (maximum one page) outlining their interest in the role, relevant experience, and what they would bring to the position
• A summary CV (maximum two pages)

The appointment will be made by the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee.

Applications should be sent to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-82f411@reciffotroppus by April 30, 2026.

糖心传媒 warmly encourages applications from doctoral students and from diverse backgrounds. We look forward to working with you.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Welcome to the 2025 糖心传媒 Annual ECR Hybrid Conference entitled “Knowledge, Power, and Possibility: Rethinking Education in the Memory of Dr. Arif Naveed”. This year鈥檚 conference honours the memory of Dr. Arif Naveed, whose work on inequality, education mobility, and social justice in the Global South continues to inspire critical and transformative scholarship. In his spirit, we invite early career researchers to question dominant paradigms, explore alternative ways of knowing, and imagine more just educational futures.

Drawing on Dr. Naveed鈥檚 spirit and ideas, this conference blends conferencing, un-conferencing, and collective gathering with the aim of fostering bold, innovative, and thoughtful conversations. Dr. Naveed was a tireless advocate for emerging scholars. He founded the 糖心传媒 Student Committee, helped launch the Student Fieldwork Grant, and co-hosted the 2016 Student Conference, which saw the publication of the piece 鈥楿nderstanding, embracing and reflecting upon the messiness of doctoral fieldwork鈥� along with his colleagues, an idea conceived from the Compare Forum. To learn more about Dr. Naveed鈥檚 legacy, read this by his colleague Peter Sutoris. Further reflections from the international education community can be found .

All sub-themes are intentionally framed through a decolonial lens, signalling our belief that every topic in education can be rethought from 鈥榓n-other鈥� perspective. Presenters are empowered to define their own sub-themes within the broader framework, allowing you to determine how your work best fits and contributes to these critical conversations.

We warmly invite innovative and creative submissions based on the following themes and beyond.

THEMES & SUB-THEMES

1. Rethinking the Role of Researchers in Unequal Worlds

• Navigating unplanned disruptions in the field
• Researcher positionality, identity, and power
• Ethics beyond the consent form
• Emotional labour and researcher wellbeing
• Representing participants鈥� voices ethically and effectively
• Methodological adaptation and flexibility
• Writing and narrating the 鈥渕essy middle鈥�

2. Grappling with Decoloniality: Reimagining Knowledge and Research in Service and Struggle

• Understanding how lived experiences and beliefs shape and reshape education experience and its expectations.听
• What is a compassionate researcher?
• The intertwining between schooling and (social) structures
• The hidden or apparent barriers of participating in schooling and the education process
• Education and its promises of social mobility
• Habitus and the decolonial turn in education听
• Ethics beyond the consent form听

3. Education in Global Contexts

• Understanding how lived experiences and beliefs shape and reshape education experience and its expectations.听
• The hidden or apparent barriers of participating in schooling and the education process听
• The intertwining between schooling and (social) structures听
• Education and its promises of social mobility听
• Navigating unplanned disruptions in the field听
• The global diffusion of AI in education
• Methodological adaptation and flexibility听

4. (In)Equal Pathways: Education and Aspiration in the Global South

• What is a compassionate researcher?听
• Representing participants鈥� voices ethically and effectively
• Emotional labour and researcher wellbeing听
• Education and its promises of social mobility听
• Aspirations, Embodied Habitus, and Structural Pathways
• The intertwining between schooling and (social) structures听
• Writing and narrating the 鈥渕essy middle鈥澨�

5. Other/Beyond these themes

• This section is for those who feel that they have something to offer that does not necessarily fit into one of the proposed themes.听
• Please briefly explain how your proposal aligns with the conference’s spirit of “Knowledge, Power, and Possibility: Reimagining Education in the Memory of Dr. Arif Naveed.”听听

SUBMISSION FORMATS

To encourage diverse forms of engagement and knowledge sharing, we are offering the following submission formats:

Presentations

Here are the available options for your presentations:

• Traditional Format: Share your research findings in a traditional 10-minute presentation covering your introduction, methods, results, discussion, and impact.
• 听Informal Discussion: Engage in a 10-minute discussion of your research project summary. This format prioritizes dialogue, so PowerPoint presentations aren’t necessary.
• Storytelling Session: Narrate your project through a 10-minute storytelling session, primarily using visuals like pictures, postcards, or drawings.
• Poetry Presentation: Convey your project using poetry as a medium of expression.

All presentations will be followed by a 5-minute Q&A with the audience and can be conducted in both online and in-person formats.

Digital Posters

• Present your project’s introduction, methods, results, discussion, and impact through a digital poster.听
• Each poster will have a total of 10 minutes allocated for display, your brief presentation, and audience Q&A.
• Digital posters are only available in the online format听

Pecha Kucha

• Present your research in a concise and engaging format in 5-minute听
• Emphasis is on visual images and graphics听
• Pecha Kucha is available in both in-person and online format depending on number of submissions听

The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2025, 12 midnight (GMT).

For any questions relating to the event, please email ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-608b7d@stneduts

SUBMISSION

Please submit your 300-word proposal (excluding references) in the form below or via this link:

糖心传媒 Student Committee in collaboration with UKFIET Student Committee

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

We are delighted to announce that the registration portal for The 糖心传媒 early career conference is . This year, our conference theme is 鈥楪lobal Crises, Continuities, and Change: Imagining Educational Responses in an (Un)certain World鈥� where we wish to draw together new and returning delegates to the 糖心传媒 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 糖心传媒 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-109a72@stneduts

Warmly,

糖心传媒 Student Committee

There is a long history of collaboration between 糖心传媒 and UKFIET, and we value the opportunities the UKFIET conference provides for facilitating connections, collaboration and collegiality between the two organisations.

Therefore, while our standard conference bursary scheme has now closed for 2023, we have launched an additional scheme to support attendance at UKFIET. We are offering a 拢200 contribution to students, ECRs within 5 years of the award of their PhD, or colleagues on fixed-term contracts of 24 months or less. There are fifteen grants available.

To apply, please send an expression of interest to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-1ccdeb@stnarg by Friday 23^rd June. The email must include a single PDF document that contains:

1. Confirmation that you have had an abstract accepted at UKFIET 2023.
2. Confirmation from a supervisor or line manager that you meet at least one of the criteria (you are a registered student; you are within 5 years of your PhD; you are on a fixed term contract of <24 months)
3. Confirmation from a supervisor or line manager that you have not received grant or institutional funding to attend UKFIET that covers more than 50% of the total cost of attendance (taking into account registration, accommodation, reasonable subsistence and economy travel). Please provide an indicative budget for your attendance at UKFIET.

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 (糖心传媒). 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 鈥�Transformative
education as a force for change: reflections and experiences from around the world鈥�.
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 糖心传媒 Early Career conference will be free to attend.

If you have any queries, please contact ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-2b3884@stneduts

糖心传媒 Student Committee

The Visiting Bye-Fellowship is a limited-term appointment for the purpose of carrying out some specific research project, free of other commitments. The purposes are to permit the scholar to execute this project, to enable the scholar to engage in intellectual exchange with Cambridge scholars and to form connections that might be of longer-term benefit to their own careers and to their own institutions, and to enrich the life of the college and university by widening our own networks and perspectives.

This one-year position is open to established researchers, including those on leave or on secondment from university posts. The successful candidate will have done a minimum of three years of advanced research (postdoctoral or equivalent) and will normally have produced significant published work. The Bye-Fellowship is tenable for twelve months from 1 October 2023 (or such other date as may be agreed with the successful candidate) and carries a stipend of 拢30,000, paid in monthly installments, and a small research allowance, currently 拢950 p.a.. Up to ten free meals per week in College will also be provided. The College offers free or subsidised accommodation (some of it suitable for double or family occupancy), as available. The Bye-Fellow is expected to reside in Cambridge, but research trips may be permitted. The funds may be used to supplement an existing salary, pay pension contributions, or as a research grant. A limited amount of paid College teaching and occasional lecturing and examining are normally allowed. Once the Bye-Fellow is selected the college will facilitate affiliation or other connection to the relevant department or departments of the university.

To apply please send to the Master鈥檚 Office Administrative Assistant (ku.ca.mac.iacobfsctd-3eb314@illeratla.enna), to arrive not later than 28 February 2023:

1. 1. A curriculum vitae, including a list of publications.
   2. A covering letter indicating:
      • Appointment and awards held,
      • Stipend or other financial assistance receivable after 1 October 2023,
      • Any appointments or awards applied for and not yet decided,
      • Subject of proposed research and outline of programme (no more than 1,000 words),
      • Any plans for travel or publications, with estimated cost,
      • A statement of the benefits the applicants expects to derive from their bye-fellowship and what they might contribute to the Cambridge community (no more than 500 words).

References will be requested at shortlisting stage.

News Source:

Prospective Mastercard Foundation Scholars can apply to the majority of courses available at the University since addressing the climate crisis requires a range of expertise across both scientific/STEM disciplines and the arts, humanities and social sciences. The Program trains these scholars in a range of academic disciplines 鈥� from the creative arts and writing, through the social sciences, to more scientific and technical disciplines: because a multidisciplinary approach to climate action and response is critical.

In addition to full funding (fees and maintenance), the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Cambridge will provide scholars with support for travel to and from the UK (including visas, if needed). In addition, Scholars will benefit from a cohort-wide induction programme, likely to require early arrival in Cambridge before the start of the course.

As part of the application process, prospective Scholars will be required to provide a supplementary statement which indicates their personal commitment to contributing to climate-resilient and sustainable futures for Africa.

The University is looking to support students with academic talent and a commitment to giving back to their community, in particular a desire and commitment to contribute to climate-resilient and sustainable futures for Africa and the world. African women, refugees and internally displaced people, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

Application deadline :听 1 December 2022 or 5 Jan 2023 depending on course of study.

For information on eligibility criteria and the application process visit:

Studying Comparative and International Education (CIE) in the global emergencies and uncertainties

29 Nov 2021, 11-1 online

hosted by Bath Spa University

Guest speakers:
Rafael Mitchell , University of Bristol
Michael Fertig, University of Bath

This is an event of the 糖心传媒-funded thematic forum series on ‘multi-stakeholders’ perspectives on learning and teaching of Comparative and International Education (CIE) during the global emergencies and uncertainties’.

The event is a Student Forum for university students, especially taught degree students who are studying CIE as their degrees or a part of their degrees. It is hoped that the forum can help create a network for taught degree students who don’t have many opportunities to attend national and international conferences during their study.

Are you an undergraduate or postgraduate student studying CIE as a degree or a part of a degree in the UK or elsewhere in the world?

We would be interested in hearing from you about your experiences of undertaking this course or your understanding about studying CIE during the pandemic and other global emergencies/uncertainties.

For more details and to sign up for the event, go to: .

We are looking for a new 糖心传媒 Student Representative who will join the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee in December 2021 until December 2023, to work alongside our current Student Representative, Emma Jackson. The commitment involves attending three Executive Committee Meetings each year and the 糖心传媒/ UKFIET conference; the organisation of the 糖心传媒 Student event; fielding inquiries from 糖心传媒 student members and representing their needs to the Executive; and aiding in the organisation of additional student-led initiatives as appropriate. While this is a voluntary role, it is an exciting and interesting challenge, and a great networking opportunity for anyone involved in international and/or comparative education.

Please be aware that in addition to two Student Representatives, 糖心传媒 also has a larger Student Committee to aid in the organisation of student-led activities. If you are not elected as a Student Rep on this particular occasion, you could still consider being a part of this Committee.

Applicants should be PhD students who are currently enrolled in a UK higher education institution. They should send a CV (maximum of 2 pages) outlining their research interests together with a 2-page cover letter, explaining what they think 糖心传媒 could do for students and how their experience is relevant to this role. We especially welcome applications that include your ideas about how 糖心传媒 could more actively engage student members in other levels of study besides the doctoral level.听 Please also state whether you wish to be considered for the Student Committee if your application for Student Rep is unsuccessful. To be eligible, you must either be a current member of 糖心传媒 or be willing to join the Association should you be elected. It is expected that the role will be undertaken from the UK as it will involve travelling to and attending events on behalf of 糖心传媒 (social and travel restrictions depending). Therefore, while we welcome applications from students听with less than two years of their degree remaining, we ask that these applicants outline their plans for being able to continue in the role beyond the completion of their degree.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Friday 29^th October 2021. Please email your application to the 糖心传媒 Secretary at ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-3b68c5@yraterces. For more information about the role, please contact Emma Jackson or Dorothy Ferary at ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-160d93@stneduts.

The 糖心传媒 Executive Committee

Call for Papers

Papers will be presented at the 糖心传媒 Students Roundtable session in June 2021 (date TBC)

Each presentation will be 10 鈥� 15 minutes long.

If you would like to participate, please send your abstract (max 500 words) by 14th May 2021 to ku.oc.eciabobfsctd-11f29c@stneduts

Call for Blog Posts

We would love to hear from students听that research involves working with marginalised and/or indigenous听groups and how they have or are intending to adapt more traditional research methodologies to carry out this research.

There is a lot of focus on decolonising education, in particular the curriculum, however, this is also important when conducting research. This could include using a more collaborative approach and innovative听methodologies that create opportunities to collect data in a more participant led way.

Selected blog posts will be published on the 糖心传媒 website.

Send your blog post by 18th of June to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-2be6f8@stneduts

Therefore, 糖心传媒 invites all postgraduate students of international and comparative education (or a closely related discipline) to write and submit an original essay on what would have been our conference theme:

Partnerships in Education: collaboration, co-operation and co-optation.

As with the conference we welcome submissions 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, the conference intended to challenge the normative, aspirational pursuit of partnership. We are interested in how politics, power, priorities, culture and language are understood, recognised and navigated by different stakeholders in education initiatives as well as the processes of learning. We invite essays that reflect on past, present and future collaborations across a wide range of sub-themes to conceptualise joint ventures in comparative and international education more robustly.

Essays should be between 3000-5000 words (including references).

The competition deadline is midnight on 31^st January 2021.

One winning entry will be selected to win the 拢500 prize.

For more information on criteria and how to apply, please go to /baice-funding/student-essay-prize/

We are looking for a new 糖心传媒 Student Representative who will join the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee in December 2020 until December 2022, to work alongside our current Student Representative, Dorothy Ferary. The commitment involves attending three Executive Committee Meetings each year and the 糖心传媒/ UKFIET conference; the organisation of the 糖心传媒 Student event; fielding inquiries from 糖心传媒 student members and representing their needs to the Executive; and aiding in the organisation of additional student-led initiatives as appropriate. While this is a voluntary role, it is an exciting and interesting challenge, and a great networking opportunity for anyone involved in international and/or comparative education.

Please be aware that in addition to two Student Representatives, 糖心传媒 also has a larger Student Committee to aid in the organisation of student-led activities. If you are not elected as a Student Rep on this particular occasion, you could still consider being a part of this Committee.

Applicants should be PhD students and based in the UK. They should send a 2-page CV outlining their research interests together with a 2-page covering letter, explaining what they think the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee could do for students and how their experience is relevant to this role. We especially welcome applications that include your ideas about how 糖心传媒 could more actively engage student members in other levels of study besides the doctoral level.听 Please also state whether you wish to be considered for the Student Committee if your application for Student Rep is unsuccessful. To be eligible, you must either be a current member of 糖心传媒 or be willing to join the Association should you be elected. As the post is for two years, students should have at least two more years of PhD study remaining, or be certain that they will be in the UK after submitting their thesis.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Friday 30^th October 2020. Please email your application to the 糖心传媒 Secretary at ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-7066ca@yraterces. For more information about the role, please contact Dorothy Ferary or Bukola Oyinloye at ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-2dec03@stneduts.

We are looking for a new 糖心传媒 Student Representative to start November 2018 until November 2020, to work alongside our current Student Representative, Alice Aldinucci. The commitment involves attending three Executive Committee Meetings each year and the 糖心传媒/UKFIET conference; the organisation of the 糖心传媒 Student Conference each year; fielding inquiries from 糖心传媒 student members and representing their needs to the Executive; and aiding in the organisation of additional student-led initiatives as appropriate. This is an exciting and interesting challenge, and a great networking opportunity for anyone involved in international and/or comparative education.

Please be aware that in addition to two Student Representatives, 糖心传媒 also has a larger Student Committee to aid in the organisation of student-led activities. If you are not elected as Student Rep on this particular occasion, you could still consider being a part of this Committee.

Applicants should be PhD students and based in the UK. They should send a 2-page CV outlining their research interests together with a 2-page covering letter explaining what they think the 糖心传媒 Executive Committee could do for students and how their experience is relevant to this role. Please also state whether you wish to be considered for the Student Committee if your application for Student Rep is unsuccessful. To be eligible, you must either be a current member of 糖心传媒 or be willing to join the Association should you be elected. As the post is for two years, students should have at least two more years of PhD study remaining, or be certain that they will be in the UK after submitting their thesis.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Friday 19th October 2018. Please email your application to the 糖心传媒 Secretary ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-372320@yraterces. For more information about the role, please contact Alice Aldinucci or Carly Christensen at ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-456399@stneduts.

The 糖心传媒 Executive Committee

The People鈥檚 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鈥檚 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 鈥� 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鈥檚 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-77f420@ertneCLAER and gro.krowtenlapobfsctd-3a8e68@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.

Deadline is midnight on Sunday 24^th January, 2016

• The prize of 拢500 is for a paper presented by a student member at the 糖心传媒 Conference (12-14 September 2016) and fully written up afterwards.
• Entrants will be asked to provide a letter from their department that attests to either their student status or that they have completed a postgraduate course within the last 6 months prior to the deadline for submission.
• The paper should deal with a subject relating to comparative or international education, and may be conceptual or empirical in nature.
• No senior scholars or supervisors should have co-authored the paper. It should be the student’s own work.
• The prize will be shared in the event of a jointly presented/written paper. All co-authors must conform to the same criteria as regards student status.
• The length of the paper should be 5,000-7,000 words.
• Papers and supporting information should be submitted in a single Word or Pdf file to the 糖心传媒 Secretary, Anneke Newman (ku.ca.ECIABobfsctd-91fa86@yraterceS) by midnight on Friday, 20^th January 2017.
• Judgment criteria are found in the document below.听 Papers must score at least 24 out of 30 points in order to be considered for the prize.
• The Association will not enter into correspondence with students who have not been awarded a prize. The decision of the judges, endorsed by the Executive, will be final.