Current Research Activity
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The Research Group on Conflict and Education. The group is convened by David Johnson and David Phillips and is made up of a number of our Doctoral and Masters students who are working on the following areas of inquiry:
- Julia Paulson (reconciliation, Sierra Leone)
- Zuki Karpinska (post-conflict planning, Pakistan)
- Bilal Barakat (return migration, Palestine)
- Candice Lee (North Korean refugees)
- Lyle Kane (war affected youth, Liberia)
- Mitsiku Matsumo (Peace education, Africa)
- Aqeela Dato (Peace Education, Africa)
- Jeremy Cunningham (visiting student, otherwise registered for doctoral studies at the Open University – post-conflict trauma)
The following students in the group have completed their studies:
- Rachel Yarrow - Conflict, Instability, and Exile: Gender and Change in Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
- Alex Inglis - The educational role of non-governmental organisations in post-conflict reconstruction : with reference to Save the Children UK
- Megan McCorriston - Refugees and education in England : examining the educational needs of refugee and asylum-seeker pupils in two West London boroughs
Student members of the research group have also published chapters in the forthcoming International Handbook on Vocational Education: From assessment to planning: Hope for TVET in Uganda, (Bilal Barakat, Lyle Kane and Alex Inglis); Linking TVET to economic opportunities in post-conflict Liberia, (Lyle Kane ); Deepening the divide: the differential impact of protracted conflict on TVET versus academic education in Palestine (Bilal Barakat); Co-ordinated programming for skills development and livelihoods in post-conflict societies: what promise does the TVET hold for Southern Sudan? (Karpi%u0144ska ); Vocational training in post-war Sierra Leone and Liberia, (Andrew Benson Greene); TVET and community re-integration: exploring the connections in Sierra Leone’s DDR process, (Julia Paulson); and TVET, women and conflict: Palestinians in the Lebanese Civil War, (Rachel Yarrow).