Centre for Education and International Development

Who we are

CEID is the largest community of researchers, teachers, students, practitioners and activists focusing on education and international development in a single institution in the UK, with a history of over 90 years in the field. We work collaboratively to describe, analyse and strive to redress historic and contemporary injustices associated with education, across a range of local, national and transnational settings.

Our focal areas include examining the role of education in conflict and peacebuilding, gender equity and empowerment, health and wellbeing, migration and (im)mobility, poverty and inequalities, colonialism and decolonisation, sustainability and climate action. 

Our vision

We view education as a critical and ethical endeavour to promote human rights, sustainability, justice, peace and wellbeing, and as a means to expand opportunities, capabilities and freedoms.

We seek to promote, practise and support contextually nuanced equitable, quality and transformative education in its many forms. 

We strive to counter injustices and exclusions linked to historical and ongoing colonialisms, and the unequal distribution of political, social, cultural and economic power between states, organisations and people.

Our work

Our research, teaching and other activities are grounded in key values and ethics related to equity, criticality, reflexivity, accountability, trust, care and inclusivity. We encompass approaches to research and teaching that are inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary. We draw from and enquire into different kinds of knowledge to understand the breadth, complexities and influences on and of education. 

Our research is theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, ethically informed, trustworthy, and critically reflexive about the use and generation of knowledge and data.

Our teaching, underpinned by research, engages with policy, practice and activism. It has been improved over decades by dialogue and debates with cohorts of students who have brought acuity to the potential of education to engage with and rectify injustices.

Across our work, we critically examine global, regional and local inequalities associated with the relationships between the global north and the global south, the contribution of diasporas, the processes of epistemicide, exclusion, inclusion, marginalisation, mobility and immobility. We seek to promote critical, eco-sustaining and egalitarian visions of education and development arising from the global majority.

CEID Launch Keynote - 15 June 2017

• Professor Amartya Sen: What's the use of education?