Conference 2022 – ��Ĵ�ý

Basirat Razaq-Shuaib

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:26:13 +0000

Basirat is a second year PhD researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is also the founder of The Winford Centre for Children and Women- a charity that provides education and welfare support services for children with developmental disabilities and their families in Nigeria.

Basirat is currently researching the perspectives and lived experiences of children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders and their parents in accessing education in a Nigerian context. She is interested in issues of voices and participation of parents and children as well as policies and practices that can reduce education exclusion for children with disabilities in low-income countries.

Basirat has authored 2 children’s picture books focused on ADHD and Neurodiversity. Her work promotes disability inclusion, empathy and kindness. Her first book won the 2020 British Council ELTons Special Commendation for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Dilrabo Jonbekova

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:05:32 +0000

Dilrabo is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. Her research focuses on the interplay between education and labour markets. Within this area, she focuses on the transition of graduates from university to job market and potential socio-economic inequalities in the employability of graduates. She is also interested in international education and development. Her current research projects focus on employability of international education graduates, contribution of international education graduates to their home country, university-industry partnerships, and innovation in higher education within post-Soviet countries. Dilrabo currently serves on the international advisory board for Journal of Comparative and International higher Education.

Yulia Nesterova

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:20:44 +0000

Yulia Nesterova is Lecturer in International and Comparative Education at the University of Glasgow. Yulia’s research interests centre around inequalities and injustices in education and partnerships and community/youth engagement for quality education and learning, peace and justice. She is working on a large project investigating spatial inequalities in education in 14 cities in seven countries across Africa and Asia and a project with UNESCO IIEP exploring how cities in the global south work towards achieving SDG4. Yulia is also leading a project on community-based peacebuilding and co-leading a project on engaging youth in peace processes. Prior to joining Glasgow, Yulia worked with UNESCO. She has conducted research in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.

Thushari Welikala

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:33:33 +0000

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.

Sarah Jeffery

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 17:37:10 +0000

Sarah is a freelance conference manager and project co-ordinator, having previously worked with CfBT Education Trust (now Education Development Trust). Sarah has a wealth of experience in planning and managing conferences for different clients.

Md Shajedur Rahman

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:39:17 +0000

Md Shajedur Rahman is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Open University UK. Under this fellowship programme, he has been developing a framework for professional collaboration for primary teachers in Bangladesh.�� During his PhD, Rahman has developed interests in Teachers Professional Development (TPD) in the Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and other resource-restricted contexts, International and Comparative Education, Ethnography (especially researchers’ positionality during ethnographic fieldwork), Critical Realism (focusing agency-structure analysis’s ability to reveal truth), decolonising educational research and digital badge for teachers’ professional development.

He has an MA from the Institute of Education, University College London in Primary Education (Policy and Practice). He also has an MEd in Curriculum and Instructional Technology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He worked as a senior research officer in a UK Department for International Development-funded large-scale teacher development project called English in Action in Bangladesh.

Michele Schweisfurth

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:19:29 +0000

Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Glasgow. Michele held a number of ��Ĵ�ý Executive positions while in her previous job at the University of Birmingham, including Ordinary Member, Membership Secretary, Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair (2010-2012). She is also former editor of the journal Comparative Education and former Chair of Trustees of UKFIET, the Education and Development Forum.�� She was based at DFID/FCDO as a Senior Research Fellow from 2018-2021.�� Her primary research interest is comparative pedagogy, situated within global crisis narratives and travelling ‘best practice’ solutions.

Tejendra Pherali

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:27:16 +0000

Tejendra Pherali is Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace at UCL Institute of Education, University College London. His research engages with educational debates in low- and middle-income contexts and politics of ‘international development’. He is particularly interested in education policies and practice in contexts of forced displacement and post-war settings and in the role of education in peacebuilding. Tejendra currently leads the MA in Education and International Development: Conflict, Emergencies and Peace at UCL. He is the PI of an AHRC-funded Peace with Justice Network. He is the author of Conflict, Education and Peace in Nepal: Rebuilding Education for Peace and Development, (Bloomsbury, 2022). He chairs the Compare Editorial Board and is��also the editor of��Education and Conflict Review.

Alison Buckler

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:09:04 +0000

Alison Buckler is a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University where she is Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Development. Her work focuses on using creative and narrative approaches to researching education, and she is the co-founder of the Ibali Network which supports people interested in using storytelling methodologies. She has been a member of the ��Ĵ�ý Executive Committee since 2015, serving as Secretary between 2018-2020, and Vice-Chair between 2020-2024.

Jennifer Jomafuvwe Agbaire

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:47:10 +0000

Jennifer Agbaire is a Lecturer in Education at the��. She currently Chairs the Open University’s Masters in Education Stage 2 Inclusive Practice module and is the Deputy Chair of the dissertation module. She also co-leads Early Career Researcher (ECR) development at the OU’s Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD).�� Her teaching, research, impact and knowledge exchange work centre issues of social inequalities, educational inclusion, equity and social justice – her work particularly stem from her interest in marginalised identities.��Jennifer’s interest and work also extends to community-centred creative, co-creative and innovative research approaches as well as the ethics and inclusivity of research and professional practices.�� She is involved in interdisciplinary and multi-partnership projects in these areas, with experience that spans access, policy, leadership, teaching and��teacher education across all levels of education.

Jingyi Li

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Mon, 05 May 2014 23:01:09 +0000

Jingyi Li is a sociologist with research interests in education policy, curriculum development, and citizenship education. She holds a PhD in Education and a MSc in Childhood Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and a MA in Social Policy and Administration from the University of Nottingham. Her doctorate research was on national curriculum development in China. After completing her PhD in 2012, she worked in a local NGO in Scotland with ethnic minority children and their families. She is now a Lecturer in International and Comparative Education in the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh

Eleanor Brown

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 21:33:37 +0000

Eleanor is a senior lecturer at the University of York, where she is based in the Centre for Research in Education and Social Justice. Prior to this Eleanor worked as a qualitative researcher at the University of Nottingham. Her primary research interests are in sustainable development and global citizenship education and education for social justice. She works in formal and non-formal educational settings as well as NGOs, social movements and communities. Eleanor’s research focuses on critical, participative and de-colonising approaches to knowledge and alternative spaces for learning, and her projects have been conducted in the��UK, Spain, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand and Cambodia.

Foster Gondwe

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:35:03 +0000

Foster Gondwe is a Lecturer in Instructional Technology at the University of Malawi. He received the Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship and earned his Ph.D. in Education at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan. He is specialized in educational development, including content areas of instructional technology, faculty development, comparative education, and teacher education and professionalization. A great part of his research is committed to understanding the intersection of Information Technology and Teacher Education, especially teacher educators’ technology integration into their work.

Lindsey K. Horner

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:13:04 +0000

My field of research and teaching is Education and International Development, specialising in critical peace education, peacebuilding education and participatory research. My doctoral research explored critical peace education as the interactions of a multifarious understanding of peace and practices to facilitate moving these understandings forward (the work of translating peace) in conflict effected communities in Mindanao. The commitment to social justice, ethics and participant representation found in my seminal research form the foundation of my research commitment and driving motivation behind my research trajectory to date, which has seen me progress onto contributions to research projects exploring the theoretical resources, processes and benefits of co- designed/constructed/produced research and the role of teachers in peacebuilding.

My current interests are in education and peacebuilding, education and conflict, social justice and post-development initiatives and theory. I have experience in qualitative research methodologies, particularly specialising in ethnography, co-constructed and participatory research and arts-based methods.

Jack Lee

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 23:21:48 +0000

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.

Emma Jackson

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:53:56 +0000

Emma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Education and a Research Associate at the Centre of Applied Human Rights at the University of York. Her work focuses on higher education and marginalised groups and the protection of knowledge. She is particularly interested in collaborative research approaches and digital storytelling. Emma has been a member of ��Ĵ�ý since 2015 and co-convened the ��Ĵ�ý conference in 2018.

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