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Leading research and teaching in education and international development.
Directors
Professor Moses Oketch
Professor Elaine Unterhalter
Education is integral to international development, and the Centre for Education and International Development (CEID) at IOE has nurtured world leaders in educational practice and research for over 85 years.
The centre comprises a team of internationally recognised experts in international development, education, and international educational policy. It delivers world leading teaching and carries out research of global importance.
Our focus areas
The centre concentrates around six thematic areas, each underpinned by the aim to improve people's lives through research, teaching, knowledge exchange and policy engagements.
We have substantial experience and expertise in carrying out research and consultancy projects for research councils, multilateral and bilateral agencies, national governments, regional and local agencies, NGOs, Foundations and private sector organisations. The thematic areas include:
- Poverty, education and inequalities
- Education, conflict and peacebuilding
- Education and the promotion of health and wellbeing
- Education, migration and (im)mobility
- Education, gender equity and empowerment
- The role of education in sustainability and climate action
About us
- Mission statement
CEID investigates education and international development, looking at the contribution of education to social justice, equalities, peacebuilding, health and wellbeing, migration, gender and women's empowerment.
We are the largest community of scholars, students and alumni focusing on education and international development in a single institution in the UK, with a history of 90 years in the field.
The Centre undertakes interdisciplinary research predominantly in and for Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific. Through our research and teaching, we consider how intersecting inequalities, hierarchies, exclusions, displacements, violence and conflicts affect education.
Our distinctive research and practice entails work that is theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous and critically reflexive about data and the contexts in which data are generated.
We understand education in its broader sense as a human practice, entailing relationships that are reproductive and transformative of political, economic, social and cultural contexts. We are interested in the connections and disconnections between different phases, spaces and forms of education, different disciplines, and local, national and international levels of analysis.
Our concerns are to promote quality education as a human right, a sustainable development goal, a peacebuilding framework, and a process for expanding opportunities, capabilities and freedoms. Our work on these themes documents the complexity of relationships and forms of understanding, and our normative concerns to address and try to change injustices.
CEID Launch Keynote - 15 June 2017
- Our staff
Directors
- Moses Oketch - Professor of International Education Policy and Development
- Elaine Unterhalter - Professor of Education and International Development
Academic staff
- Ben Alcott - Associate Professor
- Will Brehm - Associate Professor
- Elaine Chase - Professor of Education, Wellbeing and International Development
- Simone Datzberger - Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Colleen Howell, Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Laila Kadiwal - Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Anil Khamis - Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Geeta Kingdon - Professor of Education and International Development
- Marie Lall - Professor of Education and South Asia Studies
- Alexandra Lewis - Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Helen Longlands - Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Tristan McCowan - Professor of International Education
- Amy North - Associate Professor
- Charlotte Nussey - Research Fellow, Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate
- Jenny Parkes - Professor of Education, Gender and International Development
- Rosie Peppin Vaughan - Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Tejendra Pherali - Professor of Education, Conflict and Peace
- Caine Rolleston - Professor of Education and International Development
- Ian Warwick - Associate Professor
- Chris Yates - Lecturer in Education and International Development
Administrative staff
- Ioana Stan
- Choy Wong
Emeritus staff
- Jo Heslop - Honorary Lecturer in Education and International Development
- Pat Pridmore, Professor Emerita of Education and Health in International Development
- Angela Little, Professor Emerita of Education and International Development
- Engagement
Previous events
- Lunch Hour Lecture | Is girls’ education the answer to everything?, 29 November 2022
Study with us
- Programmes
Join us and carry out post-graduate Masters, Doctoral and Post-Doctoral research on Education and International Development issues, learn and critique development theories as they apply to education, and draw on your contextual expertise and experience to engage with other scholars.
Graduate taught courses
- Education and International Development MA
- Education and International Development: Conflict, Emergencies and Peace (CEP) MA
- Educational Planning, Economics and International Development MA
- Education, Gender and International Development MA
- Education, Health Promotion and International Development MA
Doctoral and Post-Doctoral research
The IOE provides an ESRC-recognised doctoral training programme to support students in acquiring cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative skills.
We have an active programme of teaching and doctoral students are supported by experienced staff who offer research supervision across a range of topics and research methods including:
- systematic reviews
- application of quantitative methods
- regression analysis and others.
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