Fellows of the AcSS – ��Ĵ�ý

Karen Evans

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Karen Evans (PhD, FAcSS) is Emeritus Professor of Education at UCL Institute of Education. Formerly Chair in Education and Lifelong Lifelong Learning at UCL and Head of the School of Lifelong Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London she specialises in international and comparative studies of education and learning throughout the life course. She has led programmes of research in the UK Economic and Social Research Council LLAKES Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies between 2008 and 2016 and is now LLAKES Honorary Professor. Karen Evans’ main fields of research are learning in life and work transitions, and learning in and through the workplace. She has conducted many international, collaborative studies of learning and working life. Her books include How Non-permanent Workers Learn and Develop (2018);Youth and Work Transitions in Changing Social Landscapes (2013), Improving Literacy at Work (2011); Learning, Work and Social Responsibility (2009); Improving Workplace Learning (2006); Reconnection: Countering Social Exclusion through Situated Learning (2004);Working to Learn(2002); Learning and Work in the Risk Society(2000). She has co-edited the Sage Handbook of Workplace Learning (2011) and the Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning (2012).

Karen Evans is currently Chair of the Asia-Europe Lifelong Learning Hub Research Network on work and learning. She is also Editor (with Andrew Brown) of the Springer Lifelong Learning Series and was previously joint editor of the journal COMPARE. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Honorary Professor at RMIT University Melbourne, Australia.

Simon McGrath

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Simon McGrath is UNESCO Chair in International Education and Development and the University of Nottingham and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. He researches on the interface between education, work and development, primarily at the post-school level and in Africa. He has done policy work for a large number of international organisations, including SADC, the Commonwealth, UNESCO, ILO and the World Bank, as well as several national governments, North and South.

Robin Alexander

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Robin Alexander, President of ��Ĵ�ý in 2008-9, is Fellow of Wolfson College in the University of Cambridge, Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Warwick and Honorary Professor of Education at the University of York. He has written extensively on comparative, international and development education, most notably perhaps the five-nation Culture and Pedagogy (2001), which won the 2002 AERA Outstanding Book Award. He is equally familiar in the context of UK education policy and research, and from 2006-10 led the Cambridge Primary Review, Britain’s most comprehensive primary education enquiry since the 1960s.

Michael Crossley

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Michael Crossley is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education, Senior Research Fellow, Founding Director of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) and Director of the Education in Small States Research Group, ESSRG, () in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK. He is an Adjunct Professor of Education at The University of the South Pacific and a Research Associate in CERC at The University of Hong Kong. In 2017 – 2018 he was elected as President for the ��Ĵ�ý. Professor Crossley is a former Editor of the journal Comparative Education, is the Founding Series Editor for the Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education (Bristol University Press) and is a member of the Editorial Boards for numerous leading international journals. Major research interests relate to: theoretical and methodological scholarship on the future of comparative and international education; education policy transfer theory and practice; research capacity and international development co-operation; and educational development in small states.

Professor Crossley has published around 250 articles and books in the field of Comparative and International Education. This work has developed a strong challenge to the uncritical international transfer of educational policy, practice and research modalities. In doing so, it is argued that “context matters” more than many policy makers and researchers recognise. Secondly, this trajectory of research points to the potential to be gained from a “bridging of cultures and traditions” within and beyond the Social Sciences if Comparative and International Education is to enhance its contribution to both policy development and the advancement of theory. He has supervised 50 doctoral students to successful completion and is a Fellow (FAcSS) of the UK Academy for the Social Sciences.

Recent publications include the book: Crossley, M., Arthur, L. and McNess, E. (Eds) (2015) Revisiting Insider-Outsider Research in Comparative and International Education. Oxford: Symposium Books.

David Turner

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Professor David Andrew Turner is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Wales, UK, and Professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Education (IICE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

He has extensive experience of teaching in schools and universities in the UK, including working as admissions tutor for several postgraduate programmes. He is the author of several books, including Quality in Higher Education (Sense Publishing, 2012) and Theory and Practice of Education (Continuum Books, 2007), as well as numerous scholarly articles in peer reviewed journals.