CREATE profiles (in alphabetical order)
Dr Manzoor Ahmed (manzoor.a@brac.net; amahmed40@yahoo.com)
Dr Manzoor Ahmed is Director, Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (BU-IED). He 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 Coodinator of the partner institution activities at the Institute of Educational Development, BRAC University. For further information:
http://www.bracuniversity.ac.bd/i&s/ied
Luke Akaguri (lakaguri@yahoo.com)
Luke Akaguri is a DPhil student studying at the Centre for International Education (CIE), University of Sussex. His current DPhil thesis on private education for the poor with a main focus of analyzing the impact of educational costs and finance on access to basic education for the poor in rural areas of Ghana. His research interest is in the area of Educational cost and financing, Education, poverty and development and Educational Management and Planning.
Dr Kwame Akyeampong (A.Akyeampong@sussex.ac.uk)
Information to be added soon. For further information
Eric Ananga (E.Ananga@sussex.ac.uk)
Eric is a DPhil student from Ghana studying at the Centre for International Education (CIE), University of Sussex. His thesis topic is on dropping out from school in Ghana.
Dr Samer Al Samarrai (alsamarrai@msbx.net)
Dr Samer Al-Samarrai is an education economist working in Africa and Asia. His areas of interest include; international education policy, the governance and financing of education systems, educational access and learning outcomes, education-labour market linkages and the relationships between poverty and education. Recently he has been involved in a 3 year research project exploring the financing and governance of education and health services in Bangladesh. He is collaborating with BRAC Bangladesh to explore the livelihood outcomes of students who completed BRAC's non-formal education programme. This work follows on from research conducted in Southern Africa on the livelihood outcomes of secondary school leavers and university graduates. Samer is also conducting research on the impact of poverty on education outcomes, education financing and trends in the labour market for the latest poverty assessment in Bangladesh.
Terry Allsop (terryallsop2@yahoo.co.uk)
Terry is an independent educational consultant.
Professor J Anamuah-Mensah
J Anamuah-Mensah is Professor of Science Education and Education Policy Winneba, and currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba.
Dr Madhumita Bandyopadhyay (madhumita@nuepa.org)
Dr Madhumita Bandyopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of School and Non Formal Education in NUEPA. She has been involved in writing two papers for the CREATE country review: Gender Equity in Elementary Education: trends and factors was written in co-authorship with Dr Ramya Subrahmanian; and Governance of School Education was written with Professor R. Govinda. Her research interests include access to elementary education and social inclusion.
Desmond Bermingham (desmondbermingham@yahoo.co.uk)
Desmond is studying for an EdD at the IoE, University of London.
Dr Nicole Blum (N.Blum@ioe.ac.uk) (A.N.Blum@sussex.ac.uk)
Nicole Blum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her work with CREATE is being conducted in partnership with researchers at the National University of Educational Planning and Adminstration, Delhi. This research focuses on small, rural schools and on issues surrounding multigrade teaching and learning in India. Prior to joining CREATE, Nicole completed a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Sussex (UK) where her research was on community participation in environmental education in Costa Rica. From February through September 2008, Nicole will be based at the University of Sussex, were she is working as a Research Fellow on CREATE.
Professor Brahm Fleisch
Brahm Fleisch is associate professor in the Division of Education Leadership and Policy Studies in Wits School of Education. His research and teaching interests include education planning, school effectiveness/improvement, educational finance, and systemic change. From 1995 to 2000, Prof. Fleisch served as Director of Education for the Gauteng Provincial Government. During his time in the public service, he initiated a number of innovative school improvement projects. Prof. Fleisch is the author of a number of publications in the areas of educational change, education and the law, school improvement and educational finance. His acclaimed book, Managing Educational Change: the State and School Reform in South Africa (Heinemann) provides a comprehensive account of educational transformation in South Africa since 1994. He has recently articles and book chapters have focused on the role of districts in school improvement, gender and learner achievement, teacher costs and effective schools, contextual factors associated with school improvement and has recently completing on a four-year multi-method study of accountability and school improvement. As a founding member of the SADC Centre for Education Policy, Planning and Management, Professor Fleisch has trained senior education planners and policy makers from Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Mauritius, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Stuart Cameron (s.j.cameron@sussex.ac.uk)
Stuart is a DPhil student at the CIE, University of Sussex. His thesis is on household decisions about schooling among poor households in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He also works as a Research Officer at the Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Brighton. Prior to this he worked for Eldis, a development information service, at the Institute of Development Studies. Stuart’s DPhil research will examine the school decision-making processes amongst households living in slum areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It will examine a wide range of economic, social and cultural costs and benefits of schooling, and try to understand how these are seen by children and parents, and how they are incorporated into decisions about schooling. As well as the initial decision to enrol in a primary school, it will consider the ongoing decisions whether to attend school or drop out, what type of providers (government, private, madrasa, NGO) are chosen, and whether private tuition is used.
Dr Nazir Carrim (Nazir.Carrim@wits.ac.za)
Dr Nazir Carrim is a Senior Lecturer in the Wits School of Education at the University of the Witswatersrand. His area of specialisation is sociology of education and current teaching and research interests focus on human rights (in) education, ‘race’ and gender in education and processes of educational transformation, policy formulation and implementation.
Dr Sunita Chugh (sunitachugh@nuepa.org)
Dr Sunita Chugh is a Research and Training Associate in the Operations Research and Systems Management Department of NUEPA, India. She has an MPhil in International Relations and a DPhil Education. Her research interests are educational and the urban disadvantaged.
Dr Alison Croft (A.M.Croft@sussex.ac.uk)
Alison Croft is a lecturer in education at the University of Sussex. Alison's current academic interests focus on primary education, teacher education, and inclusive/special education. Her doctoral thesis, which looked mainly at classroom level processes in Malawi, incorporated all
these aspects. Previously, Alison undertook research on UK government policy on special education at the RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind), and worked as a regional advisor on primary/special education for the Namibian Ministry of Basic Education and Culture. For CREATE, she is reviewing issues surrounding disability and children's access to basic
education. For further information
Veerle Dieltiens (Veerle.Dieltiens@wits.ac.za )
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.
Rashmi Diwan
Rashmi Diwan is an Associate Professor in the Department of School and Non-Formal Education at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. She has worked extensively on critical issues in school and tertiary levels of education, adult literacy and educational management, and policy research.
Professor Jerome Djangmah (jsiaujd@yahoo.co.uk)
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 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.
Dr Mairead Dunne (mairead.dunne@sussex.ac.uk)
Information to be added soon. For further information
Dr Joseph Ghartey Ampiah (jgampiah@yahoo.com)
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.
Katherine Giffard-Lindsay (K.Z.Giffard-Lindsay@sussex.ac.uk)
Katharine Giffard-Lindsay is an associate tutor at the CIE, University of Sussex. In addition, in 2008 she wrote a background paper for the 2009 UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report on poverty reduction strategies and governance, with equity, for education, and co-authored (with Pauline Rose) a working paper for DFID on the governance aspects of educational exclusion in the context of the MDGs.
Professor R Govinda (rgovinda@nuepa.org)
Professor 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. For further information
Joanna Härmä (jharma@free-school.org)
Joanna is a DPhil student at the CIE, University of Sussex.
Jeevani Herath (jeanhera@yahoo.com)
Jeevani is a PhD student at the Institute of Education (IOE), Department of Lifelong Learning and International Development, University of London. Jeevani will be researching the impact of financial, human and social capital at home and school on the educational outcomes of Grade Four students in Sri Lanka. Earlier studies in Sri Lanka had assessed mostly the impacts of human and financial capital at home and school on educational achievement. In contrast, Jeevani’s research proposes to use the concept of social capital at home and school as well. The supervisor for this PhD is Professor Angela Little. Jeevani previously worked as a Lecturer in Social Science Education, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; and a Research Associate, National Education and Research Evaluation Center (NEREC), Sri Lanka.
Altaf Hossain (altafh28@hotmail.com)
Altaf Hossain is a Team Leader in the Research Policy Studies and Advocacy Unit in BU-IED in Bangladesh. In CREATE he is part of a team designing, planning and implementing the fieldwork. His research interests include education assessment and evaluation.
Dr Sara Humphreys (s.humphreys@sussex.ac.uk)
Dr Sara Humphreys is a visiting lecturer at the University of Sussex, currently based in the Caribbean. Her research interests include gender, sexuality and school processes, gender violence, classroom pedagogies and discourses. For further information
Dr Frances Hunt (f.m.hunt@sussex.ac.uk)
Dr Frances Hunt works as a Research Fellow on CREATE based in the Centre for International Education, at the University of Sussex. Her research interests include human rights, citizenship and democracy in education; school processes and schooling relations; inclusion/exclusion issues; and education in fragile states. Fran's DPhil was titled: schooling citizens: policy in practice in South Africa. On CREATE Fran is researching dropping out from schools.
For further information
Md. Abul Kalam (kalam26@gmail.com)
Kalam Md. Abul is a Research Associate BU-IED in Bangladesh. In CREATE he works as a researcher. His research interests include access to education, assessment, formal and non formal education.
Sangeeta Kamat
Sangeeta Kamat is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her professional interests include globalization and education; critical theory; gender analysis and South Asia.
Dr Daniel Kweku Baah Inkoom (dinkoom@gmail.com)
Dr Daniel K. B. Inkoom is a lecturer at the Department of Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. He is responsible for coordianting CREATE research in th Middle and Northern belts of Ghana. He has carried out research in several fields in planning, including decentralisation and technical assistance to the education sector
in Ghana.
Dr Yazali Josephine (yjosephine@nuepa.org)
Dr Yazali Josephine is employed as a Fellow at NUEPA. On CREATE, she is carrying working as a researcher on a research project entitled: Changing pattern of Demand for Education among Dalit Girls in India. The aim of this research is to explore the reasons for declining demand for primary education, which is reflected through dropout trend among dalit girls during the new era. This study tries to underline both demand and supply-side factors involved in this change.About 59 million children are out of school in India, and the majority of them are from Dalit (schedule Caste) or Adivasis (schedule Tribes). This study explores how the changing economic and educational structures are influencing the demand for education especially for girls in this community. Dr Josephine’s research interests are in the areas of globalisation with special reference to its impact on human development via education and inequalities caused as a result of globalisation.
Dr Nalini Juneja (nalinijuneja@gmail.com)
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.
Dr Sachiko Kataoka (skataoka1@worldbank.org )
Dr. Sachiko Kataoka completed her doctoral thesis on educational decentralisation in Sri Lanka in 2006. She specialises in education financing, management and governance and has worked in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Nepal. She is interested in examining impacts of an expansion of access to primary education on sub-sectoral resource allocations and the quality of education provided in public schools. While appreciating participation of the private sector and non-governmental organisations in providing education, Sachiko focuses on the role of the government at different levels in resource allocations, governance, and monitoring and supervision as her major subjects of interests.
Dr Anil Khamis (a.khamis@ioe.ac.uk)
Dr Anil Khamis is Lecturer in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. On CREATE Anil is looking at access and alternatives to formal education particularly for Muslim communities. His research interests include, education and development with special reference to Muslim communities; school improvement, teacher education, and educational change with respect to developing countries; research methods; and education for disadvantaged/ at-risk communities. For further information
Dr Peter Laugharn (Peter.Laugharn@bvleerf.nl)
Dr Peter Laugharn is Director of Programme Development at the Bernard van Leer Foundation in the Netherlands. Previous to this he worked for Save the Children USA, including five years in Mali, the West Africa Area Director and Education Adviser for Africa. For CREATE Peter is writing a monograph in the Pathways to Access Series on access to education in community schools in Mali. This work is based on his PhD thesis carried out at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Dr Marie Lall (m.lall@ioe.ac.uk)
Dr Marie Lall is a Lecturer in Education Policy at the Institute of Education, University of London. On CREATE she is carrying out a review of policy studies concepts which might be relevant for EFA. Marie’s research interests include, education policy with regard to gender, race and social exclusion issues in developed and developing countries; Indian education policy; formation of National Identity in South Asia; parental involvement in education; politics of South Asia, Indian political economy; Indian foreign policy formulation, migration and Diaspora politics.
For further information
Professor Keith M Lewin (k.m.lewin@sussex.ac.uk)
Professor Keith Lewin is Director of the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex and Director of CREATE. He has extensive experience of school systems in Sub-Saharan Africa and in South, South East and East Asia and has published widely on the subject in 17 books and over 80 journal articles and book chapters. He has supervised 30 D Phil students working on education and development and founded the international Masters programme at Sussex. He has worked extensively with the International Institute of Educational Planning, and with the World Bank, DFID, DSE/GTZ, UNICEF, and UNESCO and with many national governments in developing countries. Keith’s recent work has followed on from his invited contributions to the Jomtien and Dakar conferences and he has been directly involved as senior advisor in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda on three national sector development plans. He has conducted educational research at the classroom and school level, through teacher education, to national systems analysis, and into Ministerial and cabinet level discussion and is familiar with both quantitative and qualitative methods of enquiry. His publications encompass the economics of education and educational financing, educational policy and planning for EFA, teacher education, curriculum, assessment, project evaluations, educational innovation and implementation, science education policy, external support for education.
For further information
Professor Angela Little (a.little@ioe.ac.uk)
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.
For further information
Dr Shireen Motala (Shireen.Motala@wits.ac.za )
Dr 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.
For further information
Audrey Mwansa (audreymwa2001@yahoo.com)
Audrey Mwansa is a second year EdD degree student at the Institute of Education, University of London and the only Centenary Scholar. Audrey is from Zambia and advises the Ministry of Education and local and international NGOs on the provision of services to orphans and vulnerable children. Her EdD dissertation will focus on political agendas and the provision of universal primary education in Zambia and is supervised by Professor Angela Little.
Asayo Ohba (A.Ohba@sussex.ac.uk)
Asayo is a research associate for CREATE and a PhD student at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex. She is currently working on a thesis focusing on expansion of access to secondary schooling in Kenya with special attention to equity. Her research interests include access in primary and secondary education, equity in access, financing of education and influence of policies on inclusion and exclusion in education in SSA and South Asia. Her research for CREATE focuses on the influence of the abolition of fees on the transition to secondary school in rural Kenya and investigates children who were excluded from secondary schooling under a previous cost sharing policy.
Dr Moses Oketch (m.oketch@ioe.ac.uk)
Dr Moses Oketch is Lecturer of Educational Planning and International Development in the Institute of Education, University of London. Moses is undertaking a review of policy on free primary education and secondary education in the East African Region. His research interests include: comparative / international higher education policy and management; economics of education; higher education finance and management; and social cohesion.
For further information
Ruth Otienoh (ombonya@yahoo.com)
Ruth is a Lecturer at the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development Eastern, Pakistan. She obtained her M.Ed in Teacher Education from Aga Khan University, Institute for Education, Pakistan. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral programme EdD at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research interests lie in classroom teaching and learning. Her doctoral study will focus on issues of teaching and learning in large classes.
Anupam Pachauri (A.Pachauri@sussex.ac.uk)
Anupam is a DPhil student at the CIE, University of Sussex. She is funded through the Commonwealth scholarship programme. Her thesis looks at multiple providers of education in India.
Dr Bijoy Kumar Panda (bkpanda@nuepa.org)
Dr Bijoy Kumar Panda is working on the areas of education and disadvantage in India and has an anthropological background. Specifically his interest centres on cultural and educational issues with disadvantaged groups. For CREATE he has undertaken a study related to educational disadvantage in one state, and problems encountered in access, quality and participation. Dr Panda has worked for NUEPA (formerly NIEPA) for more than 10 years.
Victoria Perry (victorialperry@yahoo.co.uk)
Victoria is an ESRC-funded PhD student at the Institute of Education, University of London researching modes of financing education in fragile states. Her research interests include issues of economics and governance in developing countries; international aid policy and practice in relation to education; and the financial barriers to achieving universal access to primary education. Victoria has previously conducted research for Save the Children UK and the Commonwealth Education Fund on education financing policy and civil society involvement in education budget processes.
Dr Pat Pridmore (p.pridmore@ioe.ac.uk)
Dr Pat Pridmore is Senior Lecturer in International Education and Health Promotion at the Institute of Education, University of London. On CREATE she is looking at aspects of health and educational access, retention and achievement. Pat’s research interests are around health and education. She was Director of a recently completed, DFID-funded research study on the role of open, distance and flexible learning (ODFL) in mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on young people in Mozambique and South Africa. She is the co-director of a programme of research on learning and teaching in multigrade settings. This programme includes DFID-funded work in
Nepal and Sri Lanka. For further information
Dr John Pryor (j.b.pryor@sussex.ac.uk)
John is a Reader in Education at the University of Sussex. His work within the field of international education has focused mainly on Ghana where he has investigated assessment, community and school interaction and ICTs. He specialises in research using microsociological and ethnographic approaches which aims to relate learning contexts with wider cultural and social issues. Several of these were brought together in the Understandings of Education in an African Village project DFID-funded which John directed. Within CREATE he will be collaborating on community level work where he has a particular interest in research the conditions for success in unlikely circumstances. For further information
A.N. Reddy
Anugula N. Reddy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Management Information System at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. His areas of interest include financing and privatisation of education, educational statistics, and the state and education.
Caine Rolleston (m_rolleston@yahoo.com)
Caine is currently a research associate for CREATE based at the Institute of Education, University of London, working with Professor Angela Little. His work has included the complilation of two Endnote literature databases, one on free education policies in East Africa and another on theses completed by students within the University of London on issues relating to educational access in developing countries. His role also includes general research assistance duties in supporting the Institute CREATE team. Caine is about to become a PhD student at the Institute, working on issues relating to the achievement of 'education for all' in the context of sub-Saharan Africa with reference to considerations of economic value, trade-off and cost/benefit analysis. His previous work focused on the 'human capital theory' in the context of Ghana.
Dr Pauline Rose (p.m.rose@sussex.ac.uk)
Dr Pauline Rose is Senior Lecturer in International Education within the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex. She is responsible for coordinating the theme on multiple providers of education for CREATE, and is undertaking an in-depth study related to this in collaboration with BRAC University in Bangladesh. She is also co-investigator on an ESRC-funded research project on non-government public action of basic services in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, for which she is lead researcher on education. Other current research includes an analysis of education’s role in poverty reduction, and in the consolidation of democratic values in sub-Saharan Africa. More generally, Pauline has been involved in research on the influence of international agencies and changing aid modalities on national education policies and practices in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. For further information
Zia Sabur (zsabur@gmail.com)
Zia-Us-Sabur is a senior research associate at the BU-IED and has recently embarked on an international professional doctorate in Education (EdD) in Sussex School of Education. His EdD is the outcome of an inter-institutional arrangement between University of Sussex and BU-IED. His work is closely linked to CREATE. His research interests include local level educational planning and management involving both state and non-state providers. He is also interested in non-formal education and lifelong learning.
Mona Sedwal
Mona Sedwal is a Project Associate Fellow at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. Her professional interests include Education for All (EFA); education of disadvantaged groups and higher education.
Dr Alhassan Seidu (Alhasseidu@yahoo.com)
Dr Alhassan Seidu is Lecturer in Research Methods in Educational Administration with the Centre for Educational Policies Studies at University of Education Winneba and Co-ordinator, National Centre for Research Into Basic Education (NCRIBE), Winneba. His research interests include language teaching methodologies, language alternation strategies, research into basic and teacher education issues.
Gaurav Siddhu (G.Siddhu@sussex.ac.uk)
Gaurav is a DPhil student at CIE, University of Sussex. He is researching school feeding programmes in India.
Jennifer Shindler
Jennifer Shindler is an independent contractor specialising in education research, education planning and education management information systems. She has worked as an education researcher since 1982. Between 1992 and 2004 she worked at the Education Foundation as a senior education analyst.
Shantha Sinha
Shantha Sinha is a Professor in Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and Chairperson of the recently constituted National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), India. She is the founder Secretary Trustee of MV Foundation and is known for her pioneering work on the issue of child rights.
Smita
Smita has worked in the field of elementary education for two decades. Most of her work has focused on improving the conditions of schooling for the rural poor, and her current research interest is how to achieve quality in a sustainable way. Her work is highly field based, and her research is integrally linked with action. She is currently with the American India Foundation, New Delhi.
Tony Somerset (TonySomers@aol.com)
Tony Somerset works as a tutor in the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex and has been involved in a number of international education research and consultancy projects.
Dr. Neelam Sood (soodneelam@gmail.com)
Dr Neelam Sood has a works in NUEPA. She has a Masters degree in Child Development from Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi and a Ph. D. (Psychology) from Bhopal University. Previously she was on the faculty of Guru Nanak Dev University, Haryana Agriculture University, National Institute of Public Co-operation and Child Development and a visiting faculty member as Fulbright scholar, at University of Wyoming, U.S.A. She is a specialist in Child Development with a number of published books, research articles and monographs. Her research interests are in the field of early childhood education, psycho-social and nutritional needs of children, teacher education and school education.
Dr Ramya Subrahmanian
Dr Subrahmanian works for UNICEF in Delhi. She is a former reseach fellow at the Insitute of Development Studies. She has extensive experience in the areas of gender, social development, and education. Her experience includes work on mainstreaming gender/social development into development policies and institutional processes in a wide range of development agencies. Ramya’s current research includes work on education exclusion, policy processes, livelihoods and education. She has recently written on 'Scaling Up Girls' Education' for UNGEI, and has co-ordinated a South Asian workshop of policy-makers and practitioners on the same subject. In 2003 she worked as a consultant to the Global Monitoring Report and was the lead author of the two analytical chapters on gender and education. She was the lead researcher of a joint IDS-Sussex led research project on education exclusion in India and South Africa. In addition she has worked with UNICEF and the ILO on child labour, and is also carrying out work related to child-centred social policy.
Grace Wang (xiaojun.wang@undp.org)
Grace is a PhD student at the IoE, University of London. She is being funded by UNDP.
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