The research team
Barbara Crossouard is Professor of Theory in Education in the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex. Her research interests reflect a sociological concern for education and the production of identities and attends closely to the structures of difference that contribute to exclusion and marginalization, including gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, race, religion, nation, and age. Her research draws on poststructural, postcolonial and decolonial writers to engage critically with the field of international education and development and its neocolonial imperatives.
Professor Relebohile Moletsane is the John Langalibalele Dube Chair in Rural Education; the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Social Cohesion and Director of the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change (CVMSC) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). In 2014 she was an Echidna Global Scholar at Brookings Institution’s Centre for Universal Education. Her research focuses on rural education, gender and education, sexual and reproductive health education, girlhood studies and girls’ education in Southern African contexts and on participatory visual methodology. She is co-author and co-editor of several books including Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls (2021), Disrupting shameful legacies: Girls and young women speaking back through the arts to address sexual violence (2018), and Participatory visual methodologies: Social change, community and policy (2017).
Dauda Moses , Professor of Industrial Technology Education (Electrical/Electronic), Access to Education and Gender Issues is currently Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education at the Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Nigeria and Co-Investigator in the Youth Gender and Education: Changing Landscape of Work in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa research project. With over 50 publications, Professor Moses has participated in a number of research projects and conferences both at national and international levels.
Dr Lisa Wiebesiek is the research manager at the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change in the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Her research interests include participatory visual methodology, gender and sexuality, rurality, and rural education. She is the co-editor of the book 'Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls: Transnational Approaches' (2021).
Nkonzo Mkhize is a researcher within the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has participated in projects focusing on HIV prevention, rural education development and girl-led interventions to address sexual violence. His interests are in collaborative research that focus on better understandings of young people’s experiences and the ways these affect their lives and influence their plans for their future.
Safiya Adamu is a Lecturer in Modibbo Adama University Yola, Adamawa state Nigeria. She is a Lead Youth Researcher on the Nigerian We-Say research project team. Safiya is from Taraba State in North Eastern Nigeria and is married with five children.
Máiréad Dunne is Professor of the Sociology of Education and former Director of the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex. Her research has focused in education; identities (gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, SES), work and social (in-)equalities globally. Máiréad has extensive experience of living, teaching and researching in a range of contexts in the global south. She has engaged in multiple research collaborations with colleagues and practitioners in Botswana, China, Fiji, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, W. Samoa and South Africa. These have realised multiple joint publications including Gender school experiences (2005); Becoming a researcher (2005); Gender, Sexuality and Development (2008); Troubling Muslim Youth identities (2017).