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As well as his current role as head of the School of Education, Volker is an honorary professor at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of Witwatersrand. He is the convenor of the Nottingham UNESCO UNEVOC Centre.

Prior to joining the 海角黑料 he held positions at  universities in South Africa, where he held various senior positions as head of  school, deputy dean for continuing education, and research Chair in vocational education and pedagogy. He served on numerous national bodies, including three ministerial committees and advisory committees of the Council for Higher Education (CHE) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).  He was a panel member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa reporting on the state of agricultural education and training in South Africa.

He has served in various editorial capacities, as editor in chief of the Journal of Education, as associate editor of International Journal of Training and Development and Pedagogy Culture Society, and as a member of the international editorial boards of four international journals. 

His research has been funded by SAQA, Umalusi, DHET, HSRC, UNESCO, ESRC GCRF, and the British Academy amongst others. He has supervised 12 doctoral students to completion. He is the author of numerous research papers, journal articles and book chapters. His current research projects focus on TVET lecturer professional development, skills ecosystems and skills and TVET  policy.

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Subarna is the research lead of the and heads the 海角黑料 UNESCO Chair in International Education and Development Malaysia Office.

Subarna also serves on the leadership team of the 海角黑料 Malaysia Sustainable Environments interdisciplinary research cluster. Subarna loves working and researching within an interdisciplinary space. Her areas of expertise include sustainability and higher education, environmental education, climate change education, education for sustainable development and climate change adaptation and mitigation, particularly within the context of indigenous communities.

Subarna is an Acumen Fellow, and the recipient of the WWF Malaysia's National Eco-Lecturer Award for her efforts in advocating for greater awareness amongst youth to champion sustainability. Subarna obtained her PhD in Education from the 海角黑料.

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Jo-Anna's research is focused in two key areas, both of which link to the activities of the UNESCO Chair.  A key area of Jo-Anna’s work focuses on the relationship between the private sector and international development, particularly in the context of UK foreign aid.

Jo-Anna is a co-investigator on an examining the role of consultants and contractors in foreign aid, leading the work on consultants and UK aid for education in sub-Saharan Africa. The second area of Jo-Anna’s work focuses on vocational education, where she works closely with partners in Uganda on research focused on community based and community led skills development initiatives. She is also involved in a project with colleagues in South Africa on defining and understanding vocational teacher quality. 

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With a PhD in gender and early childhood studies gained from the University of Glasgow, Yuwei's research critically engages with Sustainable Development Goals 4 (Quality Education) and 5 (Gender Equality). He particularly focuses on disrupting heteronormative gender discourses as manifested in Global South contexts, empowering all genders in full participation at all levels of life.

Yuwei is co- editor-in-chief for l, and associate editor for . He is also a council member and membership lead for . 

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Tingting has a PhD in Comparative Education (University of Bristol, UK), MA in Comparative Education and BA in Education Management (Beijing Normal University, China). She serves on the editorial boards of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education and International Journal of Educational Research. She is also the editorial review board member of Research Papers in Education and Journal of Global Education and Research. Tingting's broader research interests include globalisation, public goods and education, international aid of education, China-Africa educational cooperation, international higher education policy and other educational issues within the complexities of global political economy.

Tingting is currently leading a project on Teaching and Learning Comparative and International Education during the Global Emergencies and Uncertainties. She is also organising an international symposium on Education for International Understanding and Global Justice, held at the Jubilee Campus in June 2023, funded by the university's International Research Collaboration Fund. This is to accelerate the School of Education and Chair's collaboration with the Institute of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University. 

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Gary is the Co-convenor of the Centre for International Education Research and is President of the History Teacher Education Network. Until recently he was Chair of the Academic Advisory Board for the National Holocaust Centre and Museum. For many years, he led the Secondary PGCE History course, and developed an exchange programme for postgraduate history education students with the University of Connecticut. He teaches across a number of MA courses, supervises PhD and EdD students, and is the module leader for the History of Education module on the BA Education course.

Gary's research interests are centred on the teaching of the Holocaust and other genocides. He has held research awards from The British Council to work with history teachers in Rwanda, and was recently a theme leader and Co-Investigator on two AHRC-funded projects exploring the use of Holocaust and Nazi photography in classroom settings. With US colleagues he also holds a Spencer Foundation award researching the use of virtual interactive Holocaust survivor testimony in museums and classrooms. Recently, with colleagues from the Maximillian University Munich, he has help develop a new network of international scholars - Technology Meets Testimony [TMT] - investigating the future of Holocaust survivor testimonies. He recently co-curated an exhibition funded in part by the Arts Council – the Eye as Witness - that raised the question of through whose eyes are we seeing the past and took a fresh look at this problem, contrasting Holocaust photos taken by perpetrators with the perspectives of victims. His work on teaching difficult histories has recently taken him to new areas looking at how we teach historic climate change. This work builds on how students visualise change over long periods of time and also aims to examine how historic climate change is taught in different international settings.

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Tony is Professor of Educational Leadership at the 海角黑料 and president of his professional association, British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS).   

He is also editor-in-chief of the World of Science Q2 journal, Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (EMAL), and a best-selling author in the field of educational leadership and management. 

He has directed UNESCO projects on inclusion in Asia, and on school leadership in West Africa. He has extensive experience of research, consultancy and knowledge exchange in the global south, including projects in Botswana, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.   

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Christopher is Professor of Education in the School of Education, 海角黑料, Professor of Educational Leadership and Management in the University of Sydney, Australia, and Chair Professor at Beijing Normal University, China. Prior to this he worked as a teacher, lecturer, and schools’ adviser.

His interests, research and publications focus upon teacher professionalism, teachers' work, lives and effectiveness; successful school leadership in high needs communities; school-university partnerships; and system change.

His current research projects focus on:

1. Successful school leadership
2. System leadership: policy making and management in disruptive times
3. Chair-principal relationships in new public governance.

Recent book publications include:

• School-University Partnerships in Action: the promise of Change (2021) Routledge
• Successful School Leadership (2020) Education Development Trust
• Teachers' Worlds and Work: understanding complexity, building quality (2017) Routledge. 

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Sharon is an associate professor specialising in post-16 and adult education. Her writing focuses on class, culture and social justice issues with a psycho-social and historical lens.

Sharon was Head of Community Engagement at the 海角黑料 between 2007 and 2013. A voluntary sector leader before entering academia, Sharon was CEO of Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services from 2000 to 2007. She is Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation, a commissioner for the Centenary Commission, Co-chair of SCUTREA and Co-editor of the Studies in the Education of Adults journal.

She convenes, with Dr Iain Jones, the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue which emerged from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education. The Research Circle has led a series of twelve international events from 2021 to 2024 sharing research and practice, in the areas of social justice-orientated education, community and citizenship and the role of the imagination and creativity in fostering ‘resources for hope’.

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Imene is a dedicated youth advocate and researcher focused on autism representation in the Global South. Imene was awarded an International Society for Autism Research Cultural Diversity Internship to investigate the experiences of mothers of autistic females in Algeria. She is currently working as a Teaching Associate at 海角黑料, School of Education.

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Deniz is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Management and Co-convenor of the Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM). Deniz's research focuses mainly on diversity, equity, and inclusion in refugee and migrant education from an educational leadership and policy perspective, the epistemology of educational leadership and management as a field, social justice and culturally relevant school leadership for educational change. Moreover, she is concerned with critical comparative research dealing with educational sociology, policy and leadership.

She led various national and international funded research projects in Turkiye and the UK. She holds an appointment of a Co-convenor in Network 26 (Educational Leadership) of European Educational Research Association (EERA) and a co-convenor in CEPALs Research Interest Group in BELMAS.

Deniz is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and designed and taught a vast variety of educational leadership and teacher training courses and modules across different teacher and school leader preparation programs at BA, MA and PhD levels. She currently teaches in educational leadership modules at MA level and supervises PhD research in educational leadership, policy and management. She has a long history of research, curriculum design and teaching  in higher education contexts in Turkiye and the UK.

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