Public engagement with academics
The ‘Beyond Education’ research team has involved an extensive research dissemination plan - to local and national policy makers in Zimbabwe, and child-related NGOs in the UK, and also to academics. Part of the latter activity has involved hosting a high profile international workshop at the LSE, in which a group of international experts presented papers, which form the basis of a special issue of the International Journal of Educational Development (IJED).
Contributors to this initiative have included Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal, Louise Andersen, Alice Mutsikiwa and Clare Coultas.
The workshop (see programme) was held in the LSE’s new building on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and delegates came from all over the world to present research conducted in Zimbabwe, Uganda, the UK, South Africa, Tanzania, Norway, India, Palestine, Lebanon, New Zealand, Afghanistan and Namibia, with some papers also looking at global issues or large across country studies.
Following the workshop a total of 31 abstracts were submitted for the UJED special issue, and 15 of these have been included in the special issue, which is currently in press. Several of the
papers are already on the journal website. These include papers by Campbell et al on schools in Zimbabwe, Carol Mutch on the role of schools in responding to earthquakes in New Zealand and McLaughlin et al on how to further sexuality education in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania.
This workshop has resulted in several on-going collaborations in the interests of establishing SCHOOLS IN EXTREME SETTINGS as a demarcated problem space in educational psychology, critical education studies and public health.
One of these is the forthcoming follow-up workshop, focusing specifically on school responses to disasters, which will shortly be coordinated by Professor Carol Mutch and Dr Morten Skovdal at the LSE.
Expansion in this area is the ongoing brief of both the Health, Community and Development programme at the LSE and the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Contributors to this initiative have included Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal, Louise Andersen, Alice Mutsikiwa and Clare Coultas.
The workshop (see programme) was held in the LSE’s new building on Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and delegates came from all over the world to present research conducted in Zimbabwe, Uganda, the UK, South Africa, Tanzania, Norway, India, Palestine, Lebanon, New Zealand, Afghanistan and Namibia, with some papers also looking at global issues or large across country studies.
Following the workshop a total of 31 abstracts were submitted for the UJED special issue, and 15 of these have been included in the special issue, which is currently in press. Several of the
papers are already on the journal website. These include papers by Campbell et al on schools in Zimbabwe, Carol Mutch on the role of schools in responding to earthquakes in New Zealand and McLaughlin et al on how to further sexuality education in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania.
This workshop has resulted in several on-going collaborations in the interests of establishing SCHOOLS IN EXTREME SETTINGS as a demarcated problem space in educational psychology, critical education studies and public health.
One of these is the forthcoming follow-up workshop, focusing specifically on school responses to disasters, which will shortly be coordinated by Professor Carol Mutch and Dr Morten Skovdal at the LSE.
Expansion in this area is the ongoing brief of both the Health, Community and Development programme at the LSE and the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Special issue workshops at the LSE