Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE)

CIRE brings together academics and doctoral researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds who conduct critical research on education systems, policy and practice across countries and regions, addressing national and global educational concerns. Our work aims to make progress on social, environmental and epistemic justice in and through education, and we draw on a wide range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, including sociological, historical, philosophical, decolonial, arts-based inquiry and statistical analysis.

CIRE holds the UNESCO Chair for Transforming Knowledge and Research for Just and Sustainable Futures and hosts the influential book series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education. CIRE includes a number of special interest groups, including the Race, Empire and Education Collective and the Education in Small States Research Group.