REAL Centre Upcoming Events
10 years of the REAL Centre: Tackling injustices in and through education
Thursday 12 June 2025
For 10 years, the University of Cambridge’s REAL Centre has been turning a spotlight on education as a force for social transformation and exploring the advancement of equity and social justice, in and through education, around the world.
This one-day conference will bring together many of our partners to celebrate and reflect on a decade of evidence and impact; but it will also ask the pressing question: What comes next? We will also reflect on evidence of education’s role in tackling injustices relating to crises of climate and conflict, gender and disability.
This is an in-person event with the option to join online. Location: Donald McIntyre Building, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.
Click here for more information and to register to join in person or online.
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Opening and Keynote speakers:
- Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge
- Julia Gillard, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership
- Tassew Woldehanna, Addis Ababa University
Panellists and moderators:
- Hanna Alasuutari, World Bank
- Amna Ansari, University of Cambridge
- Julia Dicum, UNRWA
- Pauline Essah, Education Sub Saharan Africa
- Sally Gear, Global Partnership for Education
- Sakina Jafri, University of Cambridge
- Baela Jamil, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi
- Lucy Lake, Yidan Foundation, formerly CAMFED
- Laraib Niaz, University of Cambridge
- Stephanie Nowack, University of Oxford
- Mythili Ramchand, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
- Pauline Rose, University of Cambridge
- Sara Ruto, Echidna Giving
- Ricardo Sabates, University of Cambridge
- Laura Savage, International Education Funders Group
- Yusuf Sayed, University of Cambridge
- Lydie Shima, Laterite
- Maha Shuayb, Centre for Lebanese Studies
- Nidhi Singal, University of Cambridge
- Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh, University of Cambridge
- Queen Yabu and Santos Mana, Send My Friend Youth Ambassadors
Our 2025 conference celebrates our journey since our launch 10 years ago. You can watch highlights of the launch event from June 2015 here:
REAL Centre launch in collaboration with CAMFED
Date: 16 June 2015
The need for the REAL Centre is pressing. It will make a difference in helping us to understand what works to make education more equitable. It will generate much light to educate every child, including every girl. The REAL Centre will be one of real achievement.
Kenynote speaker: The Honourable Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia
Watch highlights of the opening event on YouTube.
You can also read about our launch event in a University of Cambridge news article: Cambridge gets REAL about overcoming obstacles to global education.
