Research Collaboration

The Conflict and Education Research Group is engaged in a number of small-scale, externally funded initiatives. The group was launched following a UNICEF-funded conference on Education and Conflict held at Exeter College in 2006. A summary of the papers presented at the conference was published in a supplement of the Forced Migration Review.

A joint seminar was undertaken with the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (Oxford). The research group have also conducted a desk review study on of education, livelihoods and citizenship in post-conflict countries in sub-Saharan Africa, funded by UNESCO-UNEVOC. The review has been published as a UNESCO discussion paper to be distributed to over 193 countries. A second discussion paper and follow-on study is underway.

In addition David Phillips and Hubert Ertl have established with colleagues at the University of Munich an Anglo-German Educational Research Group, which has held regular meetings and is taking forward projects on media literacy in higher education and on pathways into academic careers in the two countries.