This year marks CIRE’s 25th Anniversary, making it one of the longest running research centres for Comparative and International Education in the world. CIRE has led influential international research programmes over the years, including EdQual (2005-2011), Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF, 2019-2023), and the Education, Justice and Memory Network (EdJAM, 2020-2025). Current initiatives include the Gaza Education Research Virtual Fellowship programme, collaborations for Post-war reconstruction of education in Tigray, Ethiopia, and focused networks such as the Education in Small States Research Group and the Race, Empire and Education Collective. CIRE holds the UNESCO Chair for Transforming Knowledge and Research for Just and Sustainable Futures and hosts the award-winning book series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education.
To mark our anniversary year, CIRE is organising Special Issues for Comparative Education Review (Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world) and Compare (Research Partnerships in Education: Power, Positionality and Epistemic Justice). There will also be 8 new titles in our book series, including forthcoming work by Mario Novelli, Aizuddin M. Anuar, the GLACIER Collective, the TESF Collective, and more.
CIRE celebrated its anniversary on Friday 12th June with an event in the School of Education. The event was opened by Former Head of State for Saint Lucia, Dame Pearlette Louisy, followed by talks by former CIRE leads – Professor Michael Crossley, Professor Angeline M. Barrett, and a group discussion about the future of our field led by Professor Leon Tikly. Here’s to the next 25 years!
You can watch a recording of the event below: