Alumni Research Fellows

Akunu Agbeti

Curriculum development and evaluation; educational assessment; teacher development.

Latest appointment: Head, School Exams Administration Department, West African Exams Council, Accra, Ghana.

Akunu Agbeti

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

CIE Associate: Faraz Ali Bughio

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

Kinglsey Arkorful

Stuart Cameron

Educational inequalities; education in urban areas; evaluation of educational improvement programmes.

Latest appointment: Consultant on education at Oxford Policy Management

Stuart Cameron

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

Kathleen Fincham

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.

Cesar Guadalupe

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 ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ focussed on social justice and the role of peacebuilding in the emerging international partnerships of universities in Myanmar.

Lynne Heslop

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.

Huib Huyse

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.

Jiddere Musa Kaibo

Matthew Karikari-Ababio

A case study of the development of science, technology and innovation policy in higher education in Ghana

Matthew Karikari-Ababio

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.

Cecilia Kimani

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

Angelika Kuemmerling

Juliet McCaffery

Access, Agency, Assimilation: Exploring literacy among adult Gypsies and Travellers in three authorities in southern England

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Juliet McCaffery

Kate Nielsen

Intercultural learning; Medical education; Transformational learning; Autoethnography; Educational tourism

Kate Nielsen

Yukiko Okugawa

International assistance to education development: A case study of the basic education sector in Ghana

Yukiko Okugawa

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).

Michela Profeta

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.

John Rutayisire

Najwa Saba 'Ayon

Lebanese EFL teachers' conceptions of teaching and their practice

Najwa Saba 'Ayon

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

Francesca Salvi

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

Swadchet Sankey

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.

Yoel Siegel

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.

Armando Simões

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.

Eric Slade

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

Chisato Tanaka

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