UEA UNESCO Chair at the BAICE Conference 2024
The BAICE 2024 Conference at the University Sussex offered a fantastic opportunity for UEA UNESCO Chair members - many of whom are current and former PhD candidates at UEA – to showcase their research.
A glance at the list below shows the wealth of research and knowledge-sharing that UEA took to Brighton this summer!
Dr Chris Millora, previous UEA UNESCO Chair scholarship holder, was a discussant/chair of panel led by Prof. Mario Novelli (University of Sussex) and colleagues titled Laboratories of learning: Social Movement Learning & Knowledge-Making in Times of Crises and Conflict. He also shared findings from his Leverhulme Project on conceptions/understandings of activism among Filipino youth: (Re)bordering youth activism and learning in response to crises: a photovoice project in the Philippines.
Dr Hannah Hoechner presented findings from a BA-funded project with Yagana Bukar, focusing on Qur’anic schools and their relationship to the insurgency, Exploring the nexus between faith-based education and violent conflict: Islamic education and northeast Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis.
Rohullah Hakimi presented his PhD project Sustaining Localisation Efforts in Community-Based Education (CBE) in Afghanistan: The Role of International and Local NGOs.
John Zimba presented his PhD research, Literacies and Coping Strategies in the post-Covid-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Rural Women in Zambia.
Dr Helene Binesse presented with colleagues from the REAL Centre, University of Cambridge: The impacts and inequalities of donor-driven agendas on early learning research in Sub-Saharan Africa: an overlooked crisis? A mapping exercise of African research on early childhood development and foundational literacy and numeracy in sub-Saharan Africa, using a unique Africa-wide educational research database.
Abass Isiaka, Theresa Frey and Professor Yann Lebeau presented two papers with significant themes developed from interviews and analysis conducted as part of a UEA UNESCO Chair research project with funding from a BAICE seedcorn grant. The papers were titled: Who decides on refugees’ access to HE? Article VII and the UNESCO Qualifications Passport in the movement for inclusive internationalisation, and Towards sustainable internationalisation? The UNESCO Global Convention as statement for fair access and inclusive mobility in HE.
Lauren Bouttell discussed how educators navigated structural precarity and the potentials for social transformation in the context of charities working with refugees in England and Scotland, with paper based on her PhD research: Facilitating learning under conditions of precarity: resistance and adaptability in UK refugee organisations.