Editorial Board – ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ British Association for International and Comparative Education Mon, 25 May 2026 09:58:15 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-baice-square-1-32x32.jpg Editorial Board – ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ 32 32 Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar /person/aizuddin-mohamed-anuar/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:39:10 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=37568 Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Future Education, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research interests include education and inter/national development, rural education, postcolonial studies, informal education and the cultural politics of knowledge production.ÌýAizuddin’s work has appeared in academic journals such as Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives and Asia Pacific Journal of Education alongside a number of edited collections including the twin volumes of Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory / Method in Comparative and International Education.

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Qiang Zha /person/qiang-zha/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:52:00 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=35626 Qiang Zha is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, York University (Canada). He served as the Director of Graduate Program in Education in 2017-2020, and was then appointed as a York University Provostial Fellow in 2021-2022. His research interests include Chinese and East Asian higher education, international academic relations, global brain circulation, internationalization of higher education, globalization and education, differentiation and diversity in higher education, theories of organizational change, and liberal arts education in China and elsewhere. He has written and published widely on these topics in scholarly journals, and in the form of books or book chapters.

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Jason Cong Lin /person/jason-cong-lin/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:54:09 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=35625 Jason Cong Lin is “ZJU 100 Young Professor” and Director of Philosophy of Education Division in the Department of Education at Zhejiang University. He holds a PhD from the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. His research interests include philosophy of education, civic/moral/multicultural education, identity, and politics in education. He is the author ofÌýMulticulturalism, Chinese Identity, and Education: Who Are We?Ìý(Routledge, 2022). His research has been published in well-regarded journals, such asÌýGlobalisations, Societies and Education,ÌýAsia Pacific Journal of Education, andÌýEducational Philosophy and Theory.

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Ben Alcott /person/ben-alcott/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:17:02 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=30108 Benjamin Alcott is a Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University College London. His work primarily uses economic principles and methods to examine the equity effects of education policies. He is currently working on projects on early years learning in India and on refugee education in Uganda. Ben received his PhD in higher education policy from the University of Michigan and was previously a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the REAL Centre.Ìý

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Nicola Pensiero /person/nicola-pensiero/ Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:17:33 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=28805 Miguel Antonio Lim /person/miguel-antonio-lim/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:33:28 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=29853 Dr Miguel Antonio Lim is Senior Lecturer in Education and Impact Coordinator at the Manchester Institute of Education at the University of Manchester. He is co-convenor of the Higher Education Research Network at Manchester. He critically researches issues in the internationalisation of higher education, East and Southeast Asian and transnational higher education, international students, university rankings, and performance metrics. Previously, he was EU-Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, and task force leader on migration and higher education at the EU-Marie Curie Alumni Association. He has worked and taught at Sciences Po-Paris, the London School of Economics (LSE), and University College London (UCL) and in his home country, the Philippines.

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Yun You /person/yun-you/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:33:16 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=32320 Dr. Yun You is an associate professor at East China Normal University, Shanghai, where she also works as the leader for MA and PhD international programmes of Education Policy and School Reform. Her research interests include understanding the cross-national transfer of educational policies and ideas in the context of globalization, destructing the Western domination in constructing, representing and referencing East Asian education, and moving further, elaborating Chinese educational ideas and practices from sui generis ontological, epistemological and cosmological lenses. When she was a PhD candidate at UCL Institute of Education, she received the Student Prize for her paper presented at 2014 ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.

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Naureen Durrani /person/naureen-durrani/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:41:03 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=32322 Naureen Durrani is Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University (NU). Her research interests lie in the social, cultural, political, and economic influences on education policy and the outcomes of education on identity formation and social relations. Naureen has explored her research interests through multi-country projects funded by UK Research Councils (ESRC, AHRC & EPSRC), DFID and NU. She currently directs the Central Asia hub of the PEER Network, which aims to support research expertise in the political economy of education in Central Asia and Africa. Her current research focuses on Kazakhstan and includes exploring the relationship between gender and schooling, gender mainstreaming in higher education and the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on education and domestic violence. Naureen is a visiting fellow at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex.

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Thushari Welikala /person/thushari-welikala/ Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:33:33 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=30373 Dr Thushari Welikala is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Innovation and Development at the Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education at St George’s, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. Being an Educational Developer, her teaching has always been transdisciplinary. She has experience in teaching postgraduate students and supervising research students across a range of disciplines from Arts and Humanities to Law, Medicine, Dentistry and Social Sciences. Her research interests include internationalisation of higher education, interculturality, exclusion and coloniality in education and transcultural higher education. She has developed a background in particular, in the area of internationalisation of higher education, and has been invited by national and international higher education institutions and organisations to deliver talks and for consultancy work. She is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE/Higher Education Academy, and an active member of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society.

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Kun Dai /person/kun-dai/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:59:20 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=32325 Dr. DAI Kun is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was a postdoc research fellow at Graduate School of Education, Peking University. Dr Dai’s research interests include international and comparative education, transnational higher education, and international student mobility. Dr Dai’s work has appeared in several international peer-reviewed journals, such asÌýJournal of Studies in International Education, Compare, Higher Education Research & Development, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, and Oxford Review of Education. He is the author of ‘Transitioning ‘In-Between’ Chinese Students’ Navigating Experiences in Transnational Higher Education Programmes’ (Brill). Dr Dai is an associate editor of theÌýJournal of International StudentsÌýand an editorial board member of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.

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Tingting Yuan /person/tingting-yuan/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:44:28 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=35624 Dr. Tingting Yuan is an Assistant Professor of Education and Teacher Development in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. Her research and publications examine education policies and practice in wider political economic context, especially in the Global South. This includes the evolving nature and knowledge transformation of comparative education, educational aid and partnerships, and teacher development in Africa. She is the editor of ‘Chinese Education in a Changing Global Landscape: Projects, Policies and Practices from Schools to Universities (Routledge, 2026). She is a former ordinary member and Student Fieldwork Grant manager of the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ executive committee.

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Dina Kiwan /person/dina-kiwan/ Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:22:08 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=6969 Dina Kiwan is Reader in Comparative Education, University of Birmingham, UK. She has an interdisciplinary background in psychology, sociology and education, educated at the universities of Oxford, Harvard and UCL. In 2015-16, she was the Centre for Lebanese Studies Fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and Associate Professor in Sociology, at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, since 2012. Her work focuses broadly on citizenship and inclusion, with critical policy analysis ofÌýeducation, naturalization and migration policies in pluralist societies, and societies in conflict.Ìý Recent research has focused on how those deemed to be ‘marginalised’ and vulnerable’ constitute themselves as political actors.

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Amy North /person/amy-north/ Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:14:25 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=6851 Amy North is a lecturer in Education and International Development at UCL Institute of Education, where she is programme leader for the MA in Education and International Development.Ìý Her research interests include gender equality, literacy, the experiences of adult learners, and migration, with a particularÌýfocus on the ways in which ideas and practices move and are interpreted across different contexts. She has worked in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and with migrant groups in the UK.

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Ellen Boeren /person/ellen-boeren/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 10:41:44 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=27935 Ellen Boeren is Professor of Adult Education at the University of Glasgow and has extensive experience in undertaking comparative research in the area of lifelong learning. She is a core member of the EUR 2.5 million Horizon 2020 project ENLIVEN ‘Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe’, undertook a 3 months’ secondment at the OECD as part of a 12 months Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship exploring participation in adult education among migrants in Europe and is one of the editors of the forthcoming Fourth Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) – a flagship publication of UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.

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Helen Hanna /person/helen-hanna/ Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:34:45 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=1669 Dr Helen Hanna is a Lecturer in International Education at the University of Manchester. She is passionate about citizenship education, education rights, and educational inclusion, particularly of migrant learners and those from racial, ethnic and cultural minorities, as well as using creative visual methods. Helen has completed funded research in England, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel, Canada, Kenya, Hong Kong and Thailand. She regularly presents at international conferences and has written and peer reviewed for publications including Compare, Children’s Geographies, Literacy and BERA Research Intelligence. She also acts as an academic writing consultant for British Council Thailand and a women’s employability trainer for the non-profit London Institute of Social Studies

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Jack Lee /person/jack-lee/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:21:48 +0000 /?post_type=person&p=30329 Jack is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on international higher education (regionalisation, transnational education, institutional partnerships, national policies, student and faculty mobility). He is particularly interested in global / national / local dynamics in the context of the Global South. Jack has worked in the higher education sectors of Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, and England.

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