Akunu Agbeti
Curriculum development and evaluation; educational assessment; teacher development.
Latest appointment: Head, School Exams Administration Department, West African Exams Council, Accra, Ghana.
Alumni Research Fellows
Faraz Ali Bughio
Improving English language teaching in large classes at university-level in Pakistan.
Latest appointment: Assistant Professor at The Institute of English language and Literature, University of Sindh, Pakistan
Kingsley K D Arkorful
Early grade literacy; Language of instruction; Competency-based curriculum.
Latest appointment: Chief of Party of (USAID-funded) Literacy, Language and Learning (L3) Initiative, Education Development Center, Kigali, Rwanda *On leave of absence from the University of Ghana
Stuart Cameron
Educational inequalities; education in urban areas; evaluation of educational improvement programmes.
Latest appointment: Consultant on education at Oxford Policy Management
Kathleen Fincham
Learning Palestine: The construction of Palestinian identities in south Lebanon.
An exploration of how Palestinian refugee youth construct, articulate and negotiate their identities vis-a-vis gender, religion and nation through formal and non-formal learning institutions in UNRWA refugee camps in south Lebanon
Cesar Guadalupe
César is a Lecturer/Researcher at Universidad del Pacifico, Peru, where he is working on a project researching how schools (re)produce social representations about national history and contemporary affairs in order to better understand how modern citizenship can develop - or not - in Peru.
Lynne Heslop
Lynne is a higher education researcher and consultant specialising in the roles of higher education in conflict, peacebuilding and social justice. She has worked in South and East Asia, with extended periods in Afghanistan, Myanmar and India. Her latest appointment is lead technical consultant on a project working with universities located in conflict zones in Sudan and Ethiopia to support peace & conflict studies research, peace education and university-community engagement for peacebuilding.
Lynne's doctoral research at the University of Sussex focussed on social justice and the role of peacebuilding in the emerging international partnerships of universities in Myanmar.
Huib Huyse
Huib coordinates research and evaluations on issues concerning global development challenges; civil society and global development; monitoring & evaluation; and education and development cooperation.
Latest appointment: Head of the sustainable development research group at the Research Institute for Labour and Society (HIVA) at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Jiddere Musa Kaibo
Teacher education, access and quality in education, gender issues.
Latest appointment: Chief Lecturer and Director of Academic programmes, Federal College of Education, Yola. Adamawa State Nigeria.
Matthew Karikari-Ababio
A case study of the development of science, technology and innovation policy in higher education in Ghana
Cecilia Kimani
Researching the teaching and learning of deaf upper-primary school learners in Kenya to explain their poor examination performance and to find out ways to better support thier learning.
Angelika Kuemmerling
(Women's) Employment and working time; international comparison; gender studies; care regimes; the research of non-monetary outcomes of education
Latest appointment: Institute of Work Skills and Training, University of Duisberg-Essen
Juliet McCaffery
Access, Agency, Assimilation: Exploring literacy among adult Gypsies and Travellers in three authorities in southern England
Kate Nielsen
Intercultural learning; Medical education; Transformational learning; Autoethnography; Educational tourism
Yukiko Okugawa
International assistance to education development: A case study of the basic education sector in Ghana
Anupam Pachauri
Teacher Education, Management and Development; Quality Assurance in Higher Education; Quality Culture; Public Private Partnerships in Education; Policy Research in Education and Development
Latest appointment: Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE), National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi. India.
Michela Profeta
Early Childhood Development and Education. Early Learning. ECD and Education Policy Development.
Latest appointment: Early Childhood Development and Education consultant (for UN agencies, NGOs and donors).
John Rutayisire
An investigation into teachers' experiences of in-service training and professional development in Rwanda.
Latest appointment: John is the Director General of the Rwandan Education Board, a government Ministry charged with contributing to educational policy, as well as coordinating and fast-tracking educational programmes and activities aimed at providing quality education to all children in Rwanda.
Najwa Saba 'Ayon
Lebanese EFL teachers' conceptions of teaching and their practice
Francesca Salvi
Children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa, transitions to adulthood, pregnancy and parenthood and its intersections with education and work.
Latest appointment: Lecturer in Childhood Studies, University of Portsmouth
Swadchet Sankey
Swadchet has over 12 years of experience working on donor-funded projects focused on improving the quality of basic education in Nigeria.
Latest appointment: Senior Reading Program Manager, Research Triangle Institute
Yoel Siegel
A case study exploration of processes which contribute to community functioning for collective, as well as individual,. wellbeing. Yoel works in the field of community development and specialises in the interaction between community dynamics and regional development. He has worked extensively in Israel and is currently Director of the Metro-Jerusalem Urban Biosphere Initiative for regional ecosystem management.
Dr Mariko Shiohata
Save the Children, Nepal
Armando Simões
Inequality, education and poverty; Education systems and education management; Policy and programme evaluation.
Latest appointment: Deputy Secretary of Education for the State of Ceará, Brazil.
Eric Slade
The monitoring and evaluation of education projects, particularly in relation to school-related gender-based violence and teacher education.
Latest appointment: Education consultant.
Chisato Tanaka
Teacher education, education policy, science and mathematics education.
Latest appointment: Chief Advisor, Strenthening Mathematics and Science in Secondary Education in Malawi, Depatment of Teacher Education and Development, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Professor Rosemary Wildsmith-Cromarty
Multilingualism; Teacher education; Reading research; Early childhood education
Latest appointment: ETDP-SETA Research Chair in Early Childhood Education, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa