Honorary Fellows – ��Ĵ�ý

Kenneth King

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:41:53 +0000

Kenneth King was Director of the Centre of African Studies and Professor of International and Comparative Education at Edinburgh University for many years. He is now Emeritus Professor in its Schools of Education and of Social and Political Studies. His research has focused on the politics and history of international education, aid policy, and skills development. He has edited NORRAG News for 30 years. Since 2006, he has analysed China’s educational aid to Africa, and published China’s Aid and Soft Power in Africa (2013). Recently he began research on India’s development cooperation with Africa, with attention to human resource development.

Robin Alexander

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:37:01 +0000

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.

Lore Arthur

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:39:01 +0000

Lore Arthur was Senior Lecturer at the Open University’s Faculty of Education responsible for the postgraduate programme of lifelong learning. She has researched and published widely in comparative (adult) education, lifelong learning, higher education and foreign language learning. Lore joined the executive committee of ��Ĵ�ý in 2000;she was first Treasurer, then Vice Chair and Chair of ��Ĵ�ý (2006 – 2010) and Chair of the Editorial Board of Compare (2008-2010). She was also Co-Director of the ��Ĵ�ý ‘Insider-Outsider’ Thematic Forum from 2012 to 2015 and, as a member of the executive committee of UKFIET, convenor of Global Monitoring Report Colloquia between 2009 and 2012.

Lynn Davies

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:43:07 +0000

Lynn Davies is Emeritus Professor of International Education at the University of Birmingham and Co-Director of the social enterprise ConnectFutures. Her interests are in education and conflict, and education and extremism, and she has done research and consultancy in a number of conflict-affected states. Work in UK includes evaluating programmes to counter radicalisation, a project interviewing former extremists about their backgrounds, and training of young people and teachers in preventing violent extremism. Her books include Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos (2004), Educating Against Extremism (2008) and Unsafe Gods: Security, Secularism and Schooling (2014). As well as acting as consultant for UNESCO, she is on the Board of Africa Educational Trust and previously served on the Board of UNICEF UK. In October 2014 she was awarded the Sir Brian Urquhart award for Distinguished Service to the United Nations and its goals by a UK citizen.

Fiona Leach

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:45:43 +0000

Fiona Leach is Professor Emerita of Education at the University of Sussex. She worked in Africa as a teacher and education adviser for many years before becoming an academic. She has published widely in the field of gender and education, focusing in particular on gender-based violence in and around schools (SRGBV). She has addressed international conferences on this topic and co-authored several global reviews on approaches to addressing the issue.
She has recently finished a book documenting the lives of the first women to teach girls in West Africa in the early 19th century.

Rosalind Pritchard

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:47:33 +0000

Rosalind Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Education at Ulster University where she was Head of the School of Education and Co-ordinator of Research. Her research interests are in higher education, especially German/British comparisons (neo-liberalism;institutional mergers and linkages;gender issues);also ESOL (especially cross-cultural adaptation and teaching strategies). She is a Senior Distinguished Research Fellow of her University, a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences, an Honorary Member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education, Secretary of the European Association for Institutional Research and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Peter Williams

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:09:09 +0000

Educational planner, particularly interested in policy, planning, management and financing of African education systems and international (especially Commonwealth) educational co-operation and student mobility. Founding Secretary (now Hon President) of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education, long-time member of the Council for Education in the Commonwealth’s £xecutive (presently Secretary of CEC’s Support Group for the Commonwealth Scholarship Plan) and a founder member of UKFIET. Planning Adviser Kenya, Ghana Ministries of Education 1966-72;Lecturer/Professor of Education in Developing Countries, Institute of Education in London 1973-84;Director of Education, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1984-94. Many consultancies. Served on national education commissions in Botswana, Namibia, The Gambia and Zimbabwe.

Rosemary Preston

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:59:52 +0000

Rosemary Preston researched development in Andean America, the South Pacific and southern Africa, with multi-disciplinary studies of labour and refugee migration, post-war reconstruction and partnerships, prioritising gender, inclusion and community, latterly in contexts of lifelong learning. As Director of the International Centre for Education in Development at Warwick, she chaired ��Ĵ�ý, UKFIET, the CEC and other bodies. She edited Compare and Gender and Education, and recently written on the Commonwealth and Cuba’s support of education in poor states. An early Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, she is skilled in several languages.

Angela Little

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Tue, 11 May 2021 08:37:39 +0000

Angela W Little FAcSS is Professor Emerita at the University College London Institute of Education, where she held the Chair of Education and International Development between 1987 and 2010. She began her career in international and comparative education in 1971 as a volunteer teacher in Nigeria, with Voluntary Service Overseas. A past President of both ��Ĵ�ý and the predecessor British Comparative and International Education Society, she was previously a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, a member of the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission and of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute. She was a founder member of the London International Development Centre of the University of London, and of the UKFIET Board of Trustees. She chaired the International Advisory Board of the Young Lives Research Programme at Oxford University and in 2018 was a ‘specially appointed’ Professor of the University of Hiroshima.

Throughout her career she has combined academic and professional work through collaborations with universities, bi-lateral and multi-national agencies, national education ministries and non-governmental organisations.

She is the author and/or editor of numerous books, special issues of journals, book chapters, journal articles and reports on the themes of Education for All, Pedagogy, Multigrade Teaching, Assessment and Qualifications, Globalisation and Education and the Political Economy of Education Reform. She has directed twelve comparative research projects in countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, supervised thirty four research students to successful completion of their doctorates and written and directed two films. She continues to be actively engaged in the field of Education and International Development through research, teaching and practice ().

Keith Lewin

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 26 May 2021 09:04:57 +0000

Keith Lewin (PhD, MSc, BSc, FAcSS, C.Phys) is the Emeritus Professor of International Development and Education at the University of Sussex. He has degrees in physics, science policy and development and has worked as a consultant on development in Asia and Africa for over 45 years for DFID, the World Bank, the Africa Development Bank, UNICEF and UNESCO, and the GIZ. He has been and advisor to governments in South and South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has coordinated many multi-country research projects on educational planning and finance, science education, teacher education, and assessment. He was director of the UK DFID funded Research Centre on Educational Access and Equity and also Research Advisor to the Government of India’s DFID supported RMSA programme to universalise access to secondary education. Recently he has been a Senior Technical Advisor to the African Development Bank. His publications include more than 200 journal articles, technical reports and books. He was the founding Director of the Sussex international Masters programme 40 years ago and has supervised more than 50 PhD students. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and a Chartered Physicist, and is an honorary Professor in Beijing and Hangzhou, He is a past President of ��Ĵ�ý and was Chair of the Trustees of the UK Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) until 2020.

Malcolm Mercer

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:34:08 +0000

Malcolm Mercer has had over 50 years of practical experience in education and development in roughly 70 countries, starting off as a remedial teacher in an English secondary technical modern school and later going on as a volunteer to work in a teacher training college in Nigeria at the beginning of 1972. After being an education planner with an NGO in West Africa for five years and then teaching at the University of Leeds for six or so years, as a consultant he prepared, appraised, monitored and evaluated primary, secondary, higher and teacher education, TVET and education management programmes. He also assisted in the preparation of medium-term national education plans. As team leader, he led the preparation, review, analysis and evaluation of education sector programmes assisted by prominent national and international development agencies. He became a member of ��Ĵ�ý at its inception and was its Treasurer for 10 years. While retaining a keen interest in education, particularly for those with limited financial or political means, he has now turned more to the delights of walking with friends in the Welsh hills, and in archaeology and scuba diving in warmer climes.

Anna Robinson-Pant

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:26:28 +0000

Anna Robinson-Pant is Emeritus Professor at the School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia. She holds the UNESCO Chair for Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation, a collaborative research, training and policy-focused partnership with universities in Nepal, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Malawi and Egypt. She is also an Emeritus Professor in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.

Anna worked in the field of comparative and international education throughout her career – first as a teacher educator, literacy facilitator trainer and development worker in Nepal, India and Bangladesh (with VSO, ActionAid and various NGOs from 1985-1993), then later as a researcher. Her ethnographic research in Nepal – Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the link between women’s literacy and development – received the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research in 2001. Since moving into UK higher education, she has been active in developing methodological approaches to researching across languages and cultures, receiving the BMW Group Award for Intercultural Learning (Theory Category, 2007) for her contribution to this field. Her current research focuses on community engagement in public health; adult literacy, gender and social change; and the geopolitics of academic writing.

Anna has been actively involved in ��Ĵ�ý over many years, including five years as Co-Editor of Compare from 2005, when she and colleagues initiated the ��Ĵ�ý/Compare Writing-for-Publication Programme, and co-organising the ��Ĵ�ý conference at UEA in 2010. She was ��Ĵ�ý President from 2018-19.

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Michael Crossley

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:16:52 +0000

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

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Sat, 24 May 2014 19:52:47 +0000

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.

His research interests range across Comparative Education, Higher Education, Education Policy and Leadership and Management in Education.

Honorary Fellows – ���Ĵ�ý