People and contact
Coordinators
- Michael Crossley (M.Crossley@bristol.ac.uk)
Theoretical and methodological work on the future of comparative and international research in education; research and evaluation capacity and international development cooperation; and educational development in small states.
- Elizabeth McNess (Elizabeth.McNess@bristol.ac.uk)
Teachers' work and cultural context; the socio-historical context of education policy making; comparative, collaborative methodologies; pupils' attitudes to schooling.
Core members
- Dave Bainton
ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow Indigenous Knowledge and Science Education: bridging the divide; research Interests are science education, pedagogy, globalisation, research ethics, narrative ways of knowing, post-colonial analyses, alternative methodologies.
- Angeline Mbogo Barrett
Research interests in teacher professionalism, practice and identity; ethnographic, life history and narrative methodologies in postcolonial settings; the quality of education and the implementation of Education for All policies in sub-Saharan Africa, especially Tanzania.
- Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Language policy; comparative education, particularly the Baltic region; minority community studies; and migration and education policy.
- Marilyn Osborn
Teachers work and professional perspectives; comparative studies; qualitative research methods; pupil perspectives on schooling; sociology of education.
- Maroussia Raveaud
Post-doctoral Fellow Classroom practice; pupil's experiences of schooling; cultural context; socialisation; citizenship; qualitative research methods; theoretical and methodological approaches of comparative education and teacher knowledge; history and sociology of education.
- Leon Tikly
The quality of education in low income countries; globalisation and education policy in low income countries; leadership and change in African schools; and ethnicity and education.
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Associate members
- Jo-Anne Baird
Examination standards, comparability of assessments, on-screen testing, qualification structures, marking systems and the psychology of judgements of students' work.
- Tim Bond
Professional ethics for counselling and cognate roles, research ethics, and narrative approaches to research. Currently working on 'trust'.
- Richard Brawn
Comparative Professional Education and Development.
- Eric Hoyle (Emeritus Professor)
Organisation and management theory. The micropolitics of educational organisations. The learning organisation. Changing concepts of a profession and of professional work. The social status of teachers.
- Fiona Hyland
ESCalate research assistant
- Malcolm Lewis
Policy and practice in teacher education, new teachers' professional learning and socialisation, classroom management for effective learning.
- Lisa Lucas
Sociology of higher education, international comparison of systems of research evaluation and funding. The link between research and teaching in higher education, qualitative research methodology.
- Jane Speedy
Creative and critical research methodologies, particularly the blurring of research genres between the arts and social sciences, the formation of narrative identities and the representation of storied lives/lives at the margins.
- Sally Thomas
Educational quality and improvement, school evaluation and self evaluation. Learning communities and professional learning, pupil learning and assessment, citizenship. Education in developing countries (China, Africa, South America). Research methods using qualitative, quantitative (including multilevel modelling) or a combination of both approaches.
- Sheila Trahar
Cultural influences on learning and teaching in higher education, methodological and epistemological implications of conducting research across cultures, international higher education. In addition, Sheila is ESCalate's Academic Consultant on Internationalisation and also Secretary of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE).
- Brigid Walker
Gender in education, women teachers and teacher politics and trade unionism.
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Core research students (MPhil/PhD)
- Mindy Colin
- Lindsey Horner
- Wen-Ring Huang
- Fredrick Kamunde
- Anne Knight
- Myra Mboya
- Lizzi Milligan
- Michele Mills
- Dorothy Phumbe
- Jolly Rubagiza
- Olga Ververi
- James Wetz (EdD)
- Eliva Au
- Nelly Chan
- Daniel Cheng
- Eric Chang
- Alexandra Johnson
- Sughara Choudhry Khan
- Florence Korm
- Guy le Fanu
- Albert Lee
- Margaret Lynn
- George Mann
- Asri Mohd Noor
- Finbar O'Brien
- Samsong Patrapanick
- Kam Shuk-han
- K S So
- Wai Chan Song
- Terra Sprague
- Shawanda Stockfelt
- Collin Tjitemisa
- Lin Williams
- Antonia Yeung
- Christina Yip
- Jennie Yuen
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External professorial members
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Prof Robin Alexander (University of Cambridge)
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Prof Mark Bray (Director: UNESCO/IIEP)
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Prof Patricia Broadfoot (Vice-Chancellor, University of Gloucestershire)
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Prof Peter Jarvis (University of Surrey)
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Prof Phillip Jones (University of Sydney)
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Prof Peter Kelly (University of Plymouth)
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Prof Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh)
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Prof Earl Newton (University of West Indies)
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Prof Julia Preece (University of Lesotho)
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Prof Sheldon G Weeks (University of Botswana)
External members
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Dr Terry Allsop (University of East Anglia)
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Dr Colin Brock (University of Oxford)
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Dr James Cambridge (Consultant)
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Frank Courtney (Consultant)
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Dr Hillary Dachi (University of Dar es Salaam)
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Dr Graham Fisher
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Dr Keith Holmes (European Training Foundation)
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HE Dame Pearlette Louisy (Governor General Saint Lucia)
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Dr Steve Packer (Consultant)
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Dr Julia Paulson
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Namy Yu (formerly University of Bristol)
Education in small states network
A network of over 80 individuals and organisations is linked to the ICS Education in Small States Research Group generating world-wide contacts with researchers, policy makers, practitioners and user groups.
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