Networks and ANGEL

Due to its established role as a world-renowned centre examining Global Education and Learning, DERC has been instrumental in the development of many networks that link together other individual researchers, universities, civil society organisations (CSOs) and policy-makers to interrogate various topics.

Networks at UCL

• The DERC team have played a leading role in the establishment and development of an IOE Forum on Education for Sustainable Development and participate in working groups on sustainable development for both UCL and IOE.
• Professor Bourn is co-chair of the Grand Challenge on Cultural Understanding.

Networks around the UK

• DERC has played a leading role in developing The Case for Global Learning coalition, a collaboration with over 30 UK organisations that work on and around Global Learning in the UK. This group is lobbying the government to create a national strategy on Global Learning, to bring the UK back to the forefront of the practice of this transformational educational approach.
• DERC has a major role in the Our Shared World network, a coalition of over two hundred organisations committed to promoting and lobbying for the themes of Target 4.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals to be embedded with the school curriculum. DERC has been responsible for conducting and publishing research that supports this project.

 Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL)

Academic Network on Global Education & Learning (ANGEL)

ANGEL is a partnership project between DERC and Global Education Network of Europe that aims to create ties among global education researchers.

ANGEL and Global Education Digest

In recent years, the debate on global education and learning has gained momentum in the international and European educational and political spheres, becoming prominent in government, civil society, academic and educational discourses. In this context ANGEL aims at forging a European community of researchers and scholars in the field of global education, who, despite the existing important cooperation and personal links, do not benefit from a structural framework of support across Europe. 

This network, launched in late 2017, also aims to form a pool of experts which can become a resource for policymakers in search of strong research grounding for policy development, and to establish a network among early stage researchers, Doctoral students and Post-Doctoral researchers, who are currently engaged in research in fields related to global education.

ANGEL produce publications, run events, and distribute news to their membership through the project website.

As of 2021, the network has more than 600 members in more than 75 countries. 

Global Education Digest 

A key output is the Global Education Digest, a reasoned bibliography of academic and research materials relevant to the field of global education.