2023 keynoter to follow
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2022
Professor Stephen Carney, DPhil
Stephen Carney is a Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark where he leads its Global Humanities program. His research focuses on global educational reform and comparative method. He has studied university governance in Denmark, teacher preparation in England and China and school reform in Nepal and India. He has been President of the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) since 2016. His latest book, Education in Radical Uncertainty is published by Bloomsbury:
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2021
Professor Michael Crossley, PhD
Michael Crossley is Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education, Senior Research Fellow, Founding Director of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) and Director of the Education in Small States Research Group, ESSRG, (www.smallstates.net) in the School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK. He is an Adjunct Professor of Education at The University of the South Pacific and a Research Associate in CERC at The University of Hong Kong. In 2017- 2018 he was elected as President for the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE). Professor Crossley is a former Editor of the journal Comparative Education, is the Founding Series Editor for the Bristol Papers in Education: Comparative and International Studies (Symposium Books), and is a member of the Editorial Boards for five leading international journals. Major research interests relate to: theoretical and methodological scholarship on the future of comparative and international education; education policy transfer theory and practice; research capacity and international development co-operation; and educational development in small states.
Professor Crossley has published around 250 articles and books in the field of Comparative and International Education. This work has developed a strong challenge to the uncritical international transfer of educational policy, practice and research modalities. In doing so, it is argued that “context matters” more than many policy makers and researchers recognise. Secondly, this trajectory of research points to the potential to be gained from a “bridging of cultures and traditions” within and beyond the Social Sciences if Comparative and International Education is to enhance its contribution to both policy development and the advancement of theory. He has supervised 50 doctoral students to successful completion and is a Fellow (FAcSS) of the UK Academy for the Social Sciences.
Recent publications include the book: Crossley, M., Arthur, L. and McNess, E. (Eds) (2016) Revisiting Insider-Outsider Research in Comparative and International Education. Oxford: Symposium Books.
Panelists
Professor David Turner, PhD
David Turner is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of South Wales, and Professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University. Professor Turner is the President of Global CIE Forum and a former Treasurer, World Council of Comparative Education Societies. He is a Fellow of the Academy for Social Science and Honorary Member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education. After graduating in engineering, Professor Turner became a science teacher in secondary schools for nine years, before moving into teaching in higher education. He has taught in a variety of higher education institutions, teaching comparative education at the University of London Institute of Education before moving to the School for Independent Study at the North East London Polytechnic, now University of East London, UK. His book, Theory of Education, presented a novel approach to viewing education as a complex system, which is shaped by the choices that individuals within the system make. The book was very well received and won the World Education Fellowship Book Award in 2005/6. That book was followed by Theory and Practice of Education, published in 2007. Professor Turner believes that the role of theory in education is to provide a coherent and stringent critique of policy, and by that means to provide a framework for improving educational institutions. He is critical of much current policy in education, including the desire to see institutions ranked in league tables. He is committed to the view that the education system needs to accommodate diversity in all its expressions.
Prof Brian Denman, PhD
Brian Denman, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education, Comparative and International Education in the School of Education at the School of at the University of New England, Australia, where he also serves as Research Team Leader for Learning, Assessment and Teaching. Previously, he was a as faculty director of an overseas university branch campus in China, director of international development for the first Prime Minister library in Australia (The John Curtin Centre), and study abroad coordinator, and a school principal/headteacher in the United States. Dr Denman is Secretary-General of GlobalCIE, and was a former Secretary-General of the World Comparative Education Societies (WCCES), UNESCO Fellow, UNE Council member (Board of Trustees), President of the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives. Over the years, has held visiting professorships overseas at Hiroshima University, Minzu University of China, and Beijing Normal University and have studied overseas in Austria and Germany. Dr Denman’s research and publications have focused on: Globalisation and Internationalisation of Higher Education, Comparative Education Research, and Educational Leadership—specifically governance, management, and community engagement.