The Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex has a number of staff who work in the international and development arena. Please click on the links below for each section to view further information:
STAFF
Peter Adamczyk MA, BSc, PGCE
Lecturer in Education, Science Curriculum Tutor for PGCE. Experience includes organising science INSET courses and tutoring overseas B.Ed. and M.A. students. Current research into assessing teacher competences, concept acquisition and techniques in cognitive acceleration in science.
Dr Kwame Akyeampong PhD, MEd, BSc
Senior Lecturer in Education. Kwame's research interests focus on issues such as teacher education, educational assessment and evaluation, mathematics and science education. Country work experience includes Ghana and Rwanda.
Dr Alison Croft BEd, MA, D.Phil
Lecturer in Education. Experience includes working as a researcher at a UK NGO, as a regional advisory teacher in Namibia and doctoral research in Malawi. Taught in schools in London, Brighton and Japan. Research/teaching interests include primary education, teacher education, inclusive/special education and online learning.
Dr Barbara Crossouard, DPhil, MA (Surrey), MA (Glasgow)
Research Fellow and Associate Tutor. Barbara teaches and tutors on the Professional Doctorate in Education, the Professional Doctorate in Social Work, the International Professional Doctorate in Education and on the MA in Educational Studies.
Dr Pat Drake MA, BA, PGCE
Senior Lecturer in Education, Director of SSE. Experience includes tutoring on Inservice B.Ed. for home and overseas students in maths education and curriculum development; workshops in Malawi, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Research interests include gender & mathematics and mentoring. Co-director of gender and educational management programmes for the British Council.
Dr Máiréad Dunne Ph.D., M.A., B.Ed
Senior Lecturer in Education with interests in the social and cultural studies of education. Recent research has focused on gender, sexuality and development; education and conflict; research methodologies and identities. Specific reference to institutional processes and the production of identities (gender, social class and ethnic). Regional experience in western, eastern and southern Africa, the South Pacific, Guyana and Pakistan.
Dr Fran Hunt - MA, BA
Research Officer for CREATE. Experience in educational research, consultancy and teaching in international contexts. Research interests include citizenship, democracy, human rights, inclusion/exclusion and education.
Professor Fiona Leach, MA (Hons) DPhil. Dip. Applied Linguistics
Professor of International Education. Formerly English language lecturer in Sudan, Zaire and Egypt and lecturer in Curriculum Gender and Development at the University of London. Interests include gender violence in schools, project management and implementation, education and training for the informal sector. Research on gender issues and training for income generation.
Professor Keith Lewin DPhil, MSc BSc, M. Inst. P.
Director of CIE, Professor in Education. Specialist in policy analysis, educational planning, teacher education and science education in developing countries. Extensive experience in South/South East Asia, China, and southern Africa. Consultant on educational planning and finance to several governments in Africa and Asia and for many multi and bi-lateral agencies including DFID, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Director of several national and multi-country research projects.
Professor Louise Morley
Louise Morley is a Professor of Education at the University of Sussex. She previously held posts at the Institute of Education, the University of London, the University of Reading and the Inner London Education Authority. Her research and publication interests focus on quality, equity, gender, power and policy in higher education.
Dr John Pryor D.Phil, BA, PGCE
Reader in Education. Research expertise centres on the social contexts of learning, including work on assessment, ICTs and equity/social justice issues. Field experience in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa where he has engaged in collaborative research which seeks to make the most of combining insider and outsider perspectives.
Dr Pauline Rose, DPhil, M.A.
Deputy Director of CIE, Lecturer in Education. Senior Lecturer in International Education. Convenes the MA in International Education. educational policy and practice; international aid and education; access, inclusion, gender and education; strategies for out-of-school children; state/non-state provision and financing of education. Fieldwork in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia.
Dr Ricardo Sabates
Senior Lecturer in International Education and Development. He is mainly a quantitative researcher working with large scale national and international datasets. Much of Ricardo's research focuses on the links between education and wider social outcomes, for example education and the uptake of preventative health care, maternal education and children's learning, secondary education and juvenile crime. He currently convenes the MAIED Research Methods session. He joined CIE in September 2008.
Dr Yusuf Sayed PhD (Bristol), M Ed. (Wits), BA Hons (Wits), BA (UNISA)
Education access and rights education quality, education governance and leadership; education financing, higher education, international aid, monitoring and evaluation of education projects/programmes and international teacher education.
Ms Jo Westbrook
Experience includes nine years of secondary school English teaching and two years as a Teacher Trainer in Uganda with VSO. Currently teaches the PGCE programme and the BA (Hons) English Education Studies in the Department of Education at the University of Sussex. Jo also convenes the Education Studies Programme. Main research interests: what secondary pupils in particular read, how and for what purpose and - specifically for their independent, private reading - who monitors, encourages and assesses this. Jo also has an interest in the links between gender and education in sub-Saharan Africa and in alternative routes to QTS.
VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS
Dr Manzoor Ahmed
Director, Institute of Educational Development,
BRAC
University,
Dhaka,
Bangladesh (BU-IED). Manzoor was convenor of the widely respected Education Watch (produced by the Campaign for Popular Education) until 2005. Formerly he was Senior Education Adviser and Associate Director of Programme Division, UNICEF, New York and Country Director in China, Ethiopia and Japan; Senior Researcher/Associate Director of the International Council for Educational Development, Connecticut, USA; Head of the Department of Educational Administration at the Institute of Education and Research, Dhaka University; and chief of Education Reforms Implementation Unit, Ministry fo Education in Pakistan. He has served as consultant to the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Primary and Mass Education in
Bangladesh for the PRSP and other policy papers. Dr Ahmed has a long standing interest in Education for All issues, especially as they relate to policy and planning, access and equity, non-formal education, and rural educational provision. For CREATE, Manzoor is the Coordinator of the partner institution activities at the
Institute of
Educational Development,
BRAC
University. For further information visit http://www.bracu.ac.bd/
Professor Jerome Djangmah
Professor Djangmah is a visiting professor of the University of Education at Winneba, Ghana. He provides leadership in developing policy research on improving access to quality basic and secondary education in Ghana. In 1973, he co-authored an influential book on family background and educational opportunities in Ghana which analysed problems of equity and access to primary and secondary education for the vast majority og Ghanaian children. Professor Djangmah was Director General for Education for Ghana in the 1980s and has recently been a resident scholar at the Institute of Economic Affairs in charge of national policy studies and Rapporteur General of the National Education Forum. He was the senior author of the last White Paper on Education and is a frequent consultant to the Ministry of Education in Ghana. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including education policy for basic education, more effective links between agricultural growth and educational investment, educational expansion and quality and national educational reform.
Veerle Dieltiens
Veerle is a researcher with the Wits Education Policy Unit in Johannesburg where she has principally been investigating democratic school governance and gender relations in schools. She is registered for a PhD in philosophy of education tackling the question of the role of education in a developing country.
Dr Joseph Ghartey Ampiah
Dr Joseph Ghartey Ampiah is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is managing the fieldwork stage for CREATE in Ghana. His research interests include curriculum and methodological issues in primary and secondary education.
Dr R Govinda
Dr Govinda is Senior Fellow and Head, School and Non-Formal Education Unit, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India. He was formerly a Resident Fellow at the International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris and a Reader at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Education in Baroda. He is a member of the National Committee on Elementary Education of the CABE set up by Government of India; the UGC-NCTE-DEC Committee on Teacher Education Programmes; the National Technical Core Group on Preparation of National Plan for EFA set up by the Government of India and is a member of the Editorial Board, EFA Global Monitoring Report, UNESCO, Paris and the International Expert Group on Education, Global Governance Initiative, World Economic Forum. Dr Govinda's research activities include editing the India EFA report; case studies of school management in six states (ANTRIEP); the national evaluation of Project Blackboard, and the District Institutes of Training (UNICEF); the role of NGOs in basic education (UNCEF); school mapping in Lok Jumbish (IIEP); and a multi country study of support services to primary schools in Asia (UNESCO). His publications include books on community participation in primary education, supervision, decentralised school management, the quality of primary schooling, and EFA in eastern and southern Africa.
Dr Keith Holmes MA(Oxon) PhD
Lecturer in Education. Formerly worked in the Higher Education and Specialised Training Unit of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) of UNESCO. Research interests include educational planning and management; education for sustainable development; education in South Africa and the Caribbean; and the implications of postcolonial perspectives for research, policy and practice.
Dr Sara Humphreys MA, BA, PGCE, DPhil
Lecturer in Education and works on the MA in International Education. Research centres on gender and discipline in education. Sara's work experience includes Pakistan, Botswana and Namibia.
Nalini Juneja
Dr Nalini Juneja is a Professor in the School and Non-Formal Education Unit at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA - formerly NIEPA) India. She is one of the principal researchers for CREATE in India. Nalini's PhD research was on stress management of educational administrators. In NUEPA, her research areas include the education of urban deprived children, children's rights to education and compulsory education legislation in India (on which she was associated with three national committees). Her book 'Primary Education for All in the City of Mumbai - the challenge set by local actors' was published by the IIEP, Paris in 2001.
Esme Kadzamira BSoc. Sc. (Mlw), Dip. Ed. (London), MA (Ed). (London)
Esme is a visiting fellow from the Centre for Educational Research & Training (CERT). As a researcher and educational consultant her work has mainly focused on Gender and Education, Impact of HIV/AIDS on education, effectiveness and Efficiency of Primary and Secondary Schooling, Educational outcomes of schooling, Determinants of achievement.
Professor Angela Little
Professor Angela Little is Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education and CREATE Convenor for the Institute. Angela's research interests include, globalisation, education and development; qualifications and livelihoods; Education for All (EFA) policy and planning; Multi-grade teaching; Access and transitions in education.
Elizabeth Meke
Elizabeth is a visiting Fellow from The Centre for Educational Research & Training (CERT), Malawi.
Shireen Motala
Shireen Motala is the Director of Wits EPU. Her research interests and publications have focused on capacity building, adult basic education and training, repetition and dropout in primary schooling, youth, education financing, and quality indicators and school performance.
Nazneen Shah
Nazneen is a visiting fellow from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
Dr Prachi Srivastava, BEd, MA, DPhil
Lecturer in Education. Experience includes working with international NGOs in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Kosovo, and with the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. Main research interests: private schooling for low-income groups; marketised reforms in schooling; applications of new institutional theory to educational governance. Fieldwork in Kosovo and India.
Maureen Woodhall MA, PhD
Emeritus Reader in Education Finance, Institute of Education, University of London, and Honorary Departmental Fellow, Department of Education, University of Wales Aberystwyth. She now lives in Chichester and is a Visiting Fellow in the Sussex School of Education. Published widely on the economics of education and higher education finance and policy.