CCE Staff

	Mr. Mike Younger (Centre Director) Mike Younger is the Director of the Centre for Commonwealth Education. He was Joint Director of the Raising Boys' Achievement Project, 2000-2005, in the United Kingdom, and he has been involved in teacher education and training in Cambridge for over 20 years, working predominantly with state secondary schools. His current academic interests include gender and equal opportunities, development education and providing quality teacher education for all. He is currently directing a 'raising achievement project for all'in the Caribbean in collaboration with the government of Antigua and Barbuda. He is also involved in research projects exploring gender processes and patterns in schools in Uganda and Tanzania with particular reference to strategies which appear to have potential to enhance the retention and achievement levels of girls in education
	Professor John MacBeath (Projects' Director) John MacBeath is Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge where he has held the Chair of Educational Leadership since 2000. He is currently Projects Director for the Commonwealth Centre for Education, where the main focus of his work is in Ghana in collaboration with the University of Cape Coast. Prior to 2000 he was Director of the Quality in Education Centre at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. From 1997 to 2001 he was a member of Tony Blair's Task Force on Standards and from 1997 to 1999 Scotland's Action Group Standards. In 1997 he received the OBE for services to education. John's international consultancies have included OECD, UNESCO and ILO (International Labour Organisation), the Bertelsmann Foundation, and the European Commission. He has been consultant to the Hong Kong Education Bureau on self evaluation and external review for the last seven years, and was President of the International Congress on School Effectiveness and improvement from 2006 to 2008. In June 2008 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
	Dr. Colleen McLaughlin (Programme Leader for Initial and Continuing Teacher Education) Colleen McLaughlin is a senior lecturer and Deputy Head of Faculty with responsibility for International Initiatives at the Faculty of Education, where she teaches and researches. Her work in the UK has been concerned with two main areas: the personal and social aspects of education, including how vulnerable children are cared for and catered for within education, and making research useful to school practitioners and also constructing research in partnership with practitioners. Within the Commonwealth Centre she is engaged on researching how young people's knowledge can be used in conjunction with teacher knowledge to enhance and develop HIV / AIDS education. She is also interested in the research and development of teacher education.
	Professor David Bridges David Bridges taught for 22 years at Homerton College, where he became Deputy Principal until he was elected to a Chair at the University of East Anglia in 1990. There he became Dean of the Faculty of Education and subsequently Pro Vice Chancellor before taking up a position as Executive Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England. From 2003 to 2008 he was Chair of the Von Hugel Institute at St. Edmunds College where he was elected a Fellow and established the Centre for Educational Research and Development which he directed until 2009. David also has extensive international experience having worked among others in Belize, Guyana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Ethiopia. David's research interests are in the area of Philosophy of Education and he currently acts in an advisory capacity within the Commonwealth Centre for Education.
	Mary Cobbett Mary holds a degree in International Relations and Development Studies from the University of Sussex and has undertaken an MA on Gender Analysis of International Development with UEA. She has gained fieldwork experience in Sierra Leone, working on gender-based violence in schools, and also in Kenya where she was involved in a project managing the establishment of Ondati Girls' Secondary School. Joining CCE in January 2011, Mary will be attached to the ASKAIDS project and the gender projects in East Africa and the Caribbean.
	Dr. Jo-Anne Dillabough (Reader) Jo-Anne is Reader in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and an Associate Professor and David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her recent book (2010, co-authored with J. Kennelly) is entitled Lost Youth in the Global City: Class, Culture and the Urban Imaginary and is published by Routledge. Her edited book (with Julie McLeod and Martin Mills) is published by RoutledgeFalmer (2009) and is entitled Troubling Gender in Education, and has been reprinted in 2010 as a Routledge paperback edition. In earlier work, she conducted research on social inequality and race and gender relations in the Canadian educational context and in cross-national Western contexts (Australia, the UK). More recent work has concentrated on the investigation of the relationship between 21st century forms of moral anxiety and contemporary youth cultures in urban concentrations of poverty in comparative African and Northern European contexts (e.g., France).
	Dr. Alicia Fentiman (Senior Research Associate) Alicia Fentiman is a social anthropologist and has worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa for over twenty years on a number of educational research projects and evaluations. She is currently working on two research projects within the centre: Leadership and Pedagogy in Tanzania and Gender in East Africa. Before joining the centre she was awarded a DFID research grant (with Carolyne Dennis at the Africa Educational Trust) to examine alternative basic education in countries emerging from conflict. She has conducted numerous evaluations on a variety of projects for AET in Somalia, the BBC World Service Trust, the World Bank, UNICEF, the Commonwealth of Learning, and other international organisations. Her research interests include gender and cultural constraints in basic education, access to education for marginalised and vulnerable children and African enthnography. Her research findings have been disseminated to academics, policy makers and donors within the international development sector.
	Professor Maurice Galton Maurice Galton has directed many research projects, mostly in UK primary and lower secondary schools; one aspect of these studies being the careful documentation of classroom practice and the way it changes over time. In the 1970s he conducted a series of classroom studies (Observational and Classroom Learning Evaluation - ORACLE) followed up with a replication study two decades later. During the 1980s he acted as consultant for the Council of Europe on the Innovation in Primary Schools Project. More recently he has undertaken a number of evaluation studies including co-directing a £1 million study on Grouping and Group work for the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) and has recently completed a study of the pedagogy of resident artists in schools for Creative Partnerships and the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is currently carrying out a review for the Nuffield Foundation on the effects of transfer and transition from primary school on pupil wellbeing. Professor Galton also has considerable experience of Hong Kong schools, acting as consultant to the Hong Kong Department of Education, most recently in a study of the effects of reducing class size in primary schools (2004-2008). Within CCE he is collaborating on pedagogical initiative in East Africa.
	Dr. Björn Haßler Björn's interests include applications of technology to teaching and learning, as well as public engagement and lifelong learning. He is particularly interested in appropriate application of technology to development, and the so-called digital divide. He is based at Caret (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies) and is currently working with CCE on ICT-based projects, such as the OER4Schools project. Björn has taught, published, and presented extensively, both nationally and internationally. Recent projects have included moderating the Access to Open Educational Resources discussion on the UNESCO OER Community mailing list, UK-wide projects on new media, as well as various ICT and development projects in Zambia. Since 2003, he has produced over 300 media items, including short films, interviews, lectures, and radio programs.
	Dr. Sara Hennessy Sara Hennessy is a Senior Lecturer in Teacher Development and Pedagogical Innovation in the Faculty. Her research focuses on subject teaching and learning using technology - particularly in mathematics and science - and she works collaboratively with teachers to understand and develop pedagogy. Her work within CCE investigates the role of ICT in improving the quality of learning and teaching in sub-Saharan African schools and teacher education. A project currently underway is introducing digital Open Educational Resources into Zambian primary schools through school-based professional development. Along with Bjoern Hassler and other partners she also participated in the DfID-funded ANTSIT (Appropriate New Technologies to Support Interactive Teaching in Zambian schools) project, investigating innovative approaches to using mobile technologies in primary schools in Zambia. Other recent interests include the potential of the interactive whiteboard to support classroom learning through dialogue.
	Bryony Horsley-Heather (Administrator) Bryony joined the Faculty of Education during 2007 to support Sara Hennessy’s ESRC Fellowship: Bridging Practice and Research into Teaching with Whole-class technologies and assisted in the organisation of the RITWIT International Conference held at Cambridge in 2009. She also supported the STeM academic group from 2007-2010, joining the team at the Commonwealth Centre for Education in October 2009. Bryony holds a degree in Accountancy and is working towards a History degree through the Open University.
	Dr. Stephen Jull Stephen joined the Centre for Commonwealth Education in 2012, contributing to research investigating the transferability of principles and models of the Leadership for Learning (LfL) framework to schools and education systems of sub-Saharan Africa. Stephen is presently supporting an LfL research programme based in Ghana, working directly with colleagues at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and across the Centre for Commonwealth Education’s research and development initiatives. Stephen has held posts as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa and an Associate Faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University. He is the co-founder of Kinase Strategy, an education and corporate responsibility consultancy specialised in enhancing government, private enterprise, and non-governmental organizations’ capacity to enable sustainable community development. Stephen is husband to Hannah, and father of Guthrie, Jacob and Elsa, pursuing every opportunity for family adventures.
	Dr. Susan Kiragu (Research Associate) Susan Kiragu's (Kenya) research interests are centred in collaborative educational research in Africa; especially on HIV/AIDS education and behaviour change, gender and education, and the use of indigenous knowledges for curriculum development and teacher training. She strongly believes in research for social justice and intervention. Susan is currently working as a Research Associate at CCE and is involved in two qualitative projects in East Africa. The ASKAIDS project investigates how children's everyday and school knowledges can be used in an HIV/AIDS curriculum and the Gender project is a longitudinal study exploring the reasons why some girls manage to stay in school despite facing socio-cultural and economic problems.
	Ruth Millson (Administrator) Ruth was born and raised in South Africa, where she completed an Honours degree in Psychology and a certificate in HIV/AIDS counselling. She has varied experience working within the 'Education World' - working as an Assistant within an organisation specialising in school governance, as a Speech and Drama Teacher in South Africa and as a Learning Support Assistant for a special needs school in West London.
	Dr. Seonghye Moon Moon has extensive experience of teaching English as a foreign language at primary, secondary and Higher Education levels in Korea, where she was also involved in an English immersion project for primary school students. She holds an MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching from the University of London and a PhD from the University of Reading. Her main research interests are in language and education, and in English as a foreign or global language. Her doctoral thesis involved an ethnographic case study of Korean sojourner families in the UK, focusing on the linguistic, sociocultural and educational aspects of their experience in the era of globalization. It explored the complex adjustment and accommodation processes of children who spend varying lengths of time in the UK. Since completing her PhD, she has worked at the National Centre for Language & Literacy (NCLL). Moon is currently working with CCE on the leadership and pedagogy project in Tanzania.
	Sally Roach (Centre Manager) Sally has worked for the Faculty of Education since 2001, initially supporting the Dean of Research and since its establishment in 2008, as the Administrator for the Centre for Commonwealth Education. She has a degree in Modern Languages (German and Spanish) and has lived in both the United States and Germany. She served as a Deputy Chair/Chair of Governors at a local secondary school for 10 years (1995-2005). Sally has a particular interest in students and schools which succeed 'against the odds'.
	Professor Morag Styles Morag Styles is a Professor of Children's Poetry and a Fellow of Homerton College. Dividing her time between research and teaching, Morag co-ordinates, examines, teaches and supervises two major courses at the Faculty of Education. Her research interests are within the field of the academic study of children's literature and she has many links with outside organisations such as the British Library, Arts Council, Book Trust, UKLA, IRSCL and IBBY. She has organised exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam Museum and British Museum, as well as numerous international conferences, the most recent being POETRY and CHILDHOOD, a collaboration between the Faculty of Education and the British Library (2009). With the Commonwealth Centre for Education, Morag is currently collaborating with the University of West Indies, Jamaica and Trinidad, on a Caribbean Poetry Project to be linked to the Poetry Archive of Sir Andrew Motion.
	Dr. Sue Swaffield Sue Swaffield is a Senior Lecturer in the Leadership for Learning academic group at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and a founder member of Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network. Sue's teaching and research interests are within the fields of educational leadership and assessment, particularly leadership for learning, critical friendship for head teachers, and assessment for learning. Her work with the Faculty's Centre for Commonwealth Education currently focuses on Ghana where together with John MacBeath she is engaged in a collaborative development and research initiative to develop head teachers' leadership capacity. This nationwide Leadership for Learning programme involves working with colleague educators in Ghana in order to improve the quality of children's learning in basic schools.
	Dr. Molly Warrington Molly Warrington has research interests in the field of social geography, the focus of her work coalescing around social inequalities, particularly in relation to gender. Molly has undertaken research into homelessness, the geographies of domestic violence, the gender gap in education, social exclusion and student aspirations, and contemporary geographies of masculinity and femininity among young people. Currently Molly is working with colleagues in Kenya and Uganda to investigate why some girls stay in school to continue their education despite difficult and challenging circumstances. Another project tracks the biographies of women in those countries who have themselves succeeded against the odds. Molly is also working with the Antiguan government on a research and intervention project on boys at risk.