REAL: About the Centre

Advancing rigorous research for education and social justice in the Global South through equitable and ethical partnerships.

REAL Centre themes include:

Politics, systems and policies
• Social accountability and community engagement
• Scaling and sustainability
• Financing and resource distribution
• AI and EdTech

Equity, inclusion and diversity
• Gender, disability, race, ethnicity, language, religion, caste
• Structural and lived inequalities
• Social norms and power dynamics
• Intersectionality across all identities
• Alternative pathways

Teachers and teaching
• Pedagogy, curriculum and assessment
• Professional development
• Professional status and motivation
• Agency and wellbeing

Conflict, climate and crises
• Disruption and fragility
• Forced displacement and migration
• Trauma and psychosocial impacts

Youth engagement and transitions
• Education-to-work transitions
• Youth agency and participation
• Life-course and opportunity structures
• Non-formal and lifelong learning 

Read more about the REAL Centre’s key principles.

Find out more about the Centre's work through the diversity of research projects.