CREATE Research Associates (postgraduate students)
In alphabetical order:
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.
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.
Desmond Bermingham (desmondbermingham@yahoo.co.uk)
Desmond is studying for an EdD at the IoE, University of London.
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.
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.
Joanna Härmä (jharma@free-school.org)
Joanna is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Caine Rolleston (C.Rolleston@ioe.ac.uk)
Caine is an ESRC-funded PhD student at the IoE, University of London.
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.
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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