��Ĵ�ý Committee Members – ��Ĵ�ý

Anesa Hosein

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 13:43:10 +0000

Anesa Hosein is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Surrey. Her research centres around understanding the work and study practices of people in higher education particularly those in the margins. Her current research is on the teaching practices of migrant academics and the mental health of young people. Anesa has studied and lived in several countries mainly in the Caribbean. She holds a BSc in Physics (University of Guyana), a MPhil in Industrial Engineering (University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago) and a PhD in Educational Technology (The Open University, UK).

Martin Johnson

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 23:48:47 +0000

I am a Senior Researcher at Cambridge Assessment, which is a department of the University of Cambridge. During my time here the focus of much of my work has been on the interaction between assessment, learning and curriculum issues. Reflecting the global reach of the organisation where I work, much of my work has an international focus. Projects have ranged across academic and vocationally related contexts and investigated assessment issues in diverse sectors (e.g. primary through to post-compulsory education). My general research interest is on how to better understand assessment as enacted practice. This has involved using diverse research methods to gather the perspectives of those involved with, or affected by, assessment. Some examples of this include research into UK and international teachers’ and examiners’ assessment practices (e.g. how do teachers prepare students for assessment; what are teachers’ assessment for learning understandings and practices; and how do remote technologies impact on professional learning and communication practices.

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.

Rafael Mitchell

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:20:35 +0000

Rafael Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Education and co-director of the University of Bristol’s Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (). His research focuses on processes of schooling and school improvement in African and other low- and middle-income countries, and inequalities in knowledge production in education. Rafael is a co-founder of the African Education Research Database, and collaborates with researchers across the region to address issues of inclusion, equity, and quality in education. Rafael contributes to anti-racist and decolonising initiatives in UK schools, and serves as a school governor in Bristol.

Su Corcoran

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:57:04 +0000

Su Corcoran is a Research Associate at the School of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University, and a member of the university’s cross faculty Institute for Childrens Futures. She is also the Research Advisor at the Enabling Education Network, where she is lead editor of the Enabling Education Review. Su’s research focuses on inclusive education and social justice. She is one of very few researchers specifically researching the interplay of education and street-connectedness, prioritising the importance of practice-led and informed research and young people’s voices. She is a member of the Consortium for Street Children’s working group on education and the MENA Education Working Group of NGOs focused on education in emergencies. Su is currently leading the BA-funded project “Histories of practice za kujiinua*: co-designing across boundaries for youth resilience in Kenya” focused on young people’s resilience in contexts of crisis.

Kate Matzopoulos

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:09:36 +0000

Kate Matzopoulos is a PhD candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Her research explores decolonising education through Indigenous knowledge systems. She is currently working in collaboration with a Ju/’hoansi community in Nhoma, Namibia, to co-create a curriculum rooted in their onto-epistemologies. With a background in theatre education, Kate is passionate about creative and unconventional research dissemination, using artistic and participatory methods to challenge traditional academic structures. Alongside her research, she serves as co-chair of the Decolonising Education Collective (DEC) at the university, working to bridge theory and practice, foster critical dialogue, and drive institutional change. Her academic, professional, and advocacy work centre on Indigenous rights, educational equity, and the role of the arts in social transformation.

Pritha Dahal

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:10:07 +0000

Pritha Dahal has over ten years of experience as a high school teacher in Nepal, where she has worked with students from a variety of social backgrounds. She has trained community schoolteachers from community schools and has served as a visiting faculty member at the School of Education at Kathmandu University. In addition, Pritha has collaborated with several non-governmental organizations on various educational projects. Through these experiences, she has developed a strong belief in the importance of collaboration among all education stakeholders—including learners and teachers—to find effective, long-term contextual solutions rather than just temporary fixes.

Currently, Pritha is pursuing her PhD at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on exploring learner-centred education models that are relevant to the context of Nepali community schools. She aims to gain a deeper understanding of the daily teaching and learning experiences of both students and teachers. Additionally, Pritha is committed to amplifying the voices of learners and educators to better understand the current pedagogical practices in Nepali schools.

Amy Smail

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:08:39 +0000

Amy Smail is Programme Fellow at the IOE, UCL Faculty of Education and Society where she is currently working on a nation-wide research project on the teaching of the British Empire and Migration in secondary schools in England. Her recent research focus on the role of Indigenous Knowledges in schools, Pan-Africanism and decolonial expressions of citizenship. She is an advisory member for a UCL Nuffield-funded project on evaluating the British Values initiative of the DFE. Amy also works at the University of Cambridge as Lead of evaluating teaching and learning practices, at the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning, with a focus on creative methods for inclusive practices.

Vanessa Ozawa

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:02:59 +0000

Vanessa is an Education Researcher at the International Rescue Committee UK, working primarily on the FCDO-funded Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) Programme. This research initiative focuses on promoting education in conflict- and crisis-affected settings and exploring the role of education in advancing equity, social cohesion, and sustainable peace. Within the programme, Vanessa collaborates closely with scholars from the UCL Institute of Education, one of ERICC’s consortium partners, on issues related to gender, inclusion, social justice, and peacebuilding. Her work particularly engages with the contexts of Cox’s Bazar, Myanmar, South Sudan, and Syria. Vanessa specialises in Central Asian contexts, with a particular focus on the role of education in shaping national identity through the intersectionality of ethnicity, gender, and religion, areas that were central to her doctoral research.

Camilla Hadi Chaudhary

��Ĵ�ý Admin — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:12:39 +0000

Camilla Hadi Chaudhary is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, where her research focuses on educational inclusion, education policy, school leadership, and climate justice education. Her doctoral research examined how inclusion is conceptualised and practiced by school leaders in a Pakistani context, drawing on narrative and policy analysis to challenge deficit-oriented frameworks in educational discourses. Informed by decolonial theory and social justice frameworks her work foregrounds situated knowledges to recognise ‘alternative’ ways of knowing and thinking. She is the co-founder of the South Asian Approaches to Researching Education (SAARE) Network, which explores the particularities of researching education in South Asia. From 2020 to 2023, she served on the ��Ĵ�ý Student Committee, co-convening the ��Ĵ�ý Early Career Researcher Conferences in 2022 and 2023. In 2024, she also co-convened the ‘Borderless’ sub-theme of the ��Ĵ�ý Conference.

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.

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