I am co-director of the University of Bristol’s Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE), and serve on the Executive Committee of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE).

My research focuses on schooling, pedagogy, and teachers’ work in Africa, and democratising knowledge production in education. This has involved collaborations with researchers and practitioners around the world, and international organisations, including UNESCO, the British Council, FAWE and the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning.

Recent and ongoing projects include:

• Recognising the ‘extended’ work of English teachers in a post-conflict context: Lessons from Tigray, Ethiopia. An English Language Teaching Research Award (ELTRA) project, in collaboration with Dr Nigusse Weldemariam Reda and colleagues at Mekelle University (2025-2026).
• Teacher professional development in Africa: A critical synthesis of research evidence. A British Council-funded collaborative study with colleagues in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Africa, presented as a position paper for Innovation Africa 2025.
• Ministries of Education (MOE) leadership of equitable, quality education for all during crises. A UNESCO-IIEP funded study (2020-2022) to synthesise evidence from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Jordan, leading to the ‘endogenous systems leadership’ framework.
• Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) – Co-Investigator leading the capacity mobilisation strand of this £4.75 mill Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) network (2020-2023). TESF supported 67 projects led by researchers in Rwanda, Somalia/Somaliland, South Africa and India. 
• South-West Anti-Racist Education Forum – A collaboration between schools, universities and civil society organisations in Bristol and surrounding areas, which has operated since 2020 with funding from Research England and others.

Full list of publications.

I welcome requests for doctoral supervision and collaboration relevant to my research interests.