REAL Centre members
Faculty Members
Professor Pauline Rose
REAL Centre Director. Measuring and addressing inequalities in education access and learning; teacher quality; non-state provision, financing. Pauline Rose full profile
Professor Pallavi Banerjee
Inequalities in educational outcomes for children and young people across the student life cycle; links to socioeconomic background; evaluations utilising experimental and quasi-experimental research designs; identifying gaps in attainment and progression, educational behaviour and decision-making. Pallavi Banerjee full profile
Professor Grace Ese-osa Idahosa
Agency and higher education transformation; feminist and decolonial thought; representations of power; intersections of legacies of oppression and domination within HE systems; social dimension of political and feminist theory. Grace Ese-osa Idahosa full profile
Professor Sonia Ilie
Educational access and learning inequalities in relation to socio-economic deprivation; widening participation and learning in higher education; evaluation; quantitative research methods. Sonia Ilie full profile
Professor Noella Binda Niati
Nonformal educative spaces; sociopolitical inequalities; Hip-Hop pedagogy; (reverse) migration; mixed methods; epistemic disobedience; socio-cultural context of language; role of the state in structuring (in)access. Noella Binda Niati full profile
Professor Ricardo Sabates
Access to education; social benefits of education in international contexts; inequalities in education; quantitative impact evaluations in education. Ricardo Sabates full profile
Professor Yusuf Sayed
Global education policy and development; equity; inclusion; social justice; empowerment. Yusuf Sayed full profile
Professor Maha Shuayb
Sociologist; education inequalities; politics of education reform; education of refugee children; education of refugees in longer-term settlements; equitable research partnerships; knowledge production; research ethics; quantitative and qualitative longitudinal research; disability studies; history and civic education. Maha Shuayb full profile
Professor Nidhi Singal
Disability, poverty and education; teaching and learning processes in mainstream classrooms; student outcomes in inclusive settings; ethics in educational research in Southern contexts. Nidhi Singal full profile
REAL Centre Research Assistants and Associates 
Dr Amna Ansari
Early childhood development; gender and education; teacher professional development; scaling and sustainability; education data systems; systems research in education; education policy and practice. Amna Ansari full profile
Dr Mesele Araya
Access to early childhood education; Inequality of learning outcomes; Educational intervention programs - school grants and/or feeding; Impact monitoring and evaluation - mixed methods. Mesele Araya full profile
Dr Hélène Binesse
Adult literacy; informal learning; health literacy and gender; mapping Foundational Literacy and Numeracy research in Sub-Saharan Africa; ethnographic study.
Dr Emma Carter
Psychology of education; accelerated learning; education in sub-Saharan Africa; educational evaluation; quantitative and qualitative research methods. Emma Carter full profile
Dr Luisa Ciampi
Gender; education; policy; communication; social change; interdisciplinary research; participatory research; knowledge transfer; climate resilience; social protection; teaching. Luisa Ciampi full profile
Daniel Hawkins Iddrisu
Disadvantaged students and higher education; inclusive, disability and higher education; crisis impact on disadvantaged learners; educational sociology; poverty, inequality and education; access, participation, and experiences of higher education; early childhood development; qualitative; and mixed methods.
Dr Yuyan Jiang
Educational inequalities; social mobility; education economics; labour economics; programme evaluation; intergenerational income mobility. Yuyan Jiang full profile
Dr Konstantina Maragkou
Economics of education; educational choices and outcomes; equality of opportunity in education, widening university participation; quantitative research method; evaluation. Konstantina Maragkou full profile
Dr Susan Marango
Evaluating the impact of education; higher education and sustainable development; equity, access and inclusion in education; education and policy; strengthening resilience and response to climate change. Susan Marango full profile
Dr Laraib Niaz
Inclusive education; disability; girls' education; role of religion in classrooms; construction of the self and other; qualitative and quantitative methods. Laraib Niaz full profile
Dr Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh
Instructional design; systematic design of learning environments; 21st century skills; development and validation of instruments; quantitative research methods; Ethiopian General Education. Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh full profile
Dr Eunice Mueni Williams
Exploring the effects of women empowerment in education outcomes; gender inequality in education access; promoting use of evidence in decision-making and policy development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Faculty Affiliate Members
Emeritus Professor Madeleine Arnot
Sociology of education; gender; citizenship studies; migration. Madeleine Arnot full profile
Dr Hilary Cremin
Education and peacebuilding; responding constructively to conflict; truth and reconciliation processes; restorative justice. Hilary Cremin full profile
Dr Sara Hennessy
Improving quality of teaching and learning through professional development and digital technology use, especially mobile technologies; increasing participation in learning through classroom dialogue, reasoning and collaborative working. Sara Hennessy full profile
Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Maber
Teaching and research explores the relationship between education, social justice and building peace in international contexts particularly in relation to gender and intersectional experiences of social inequalities. Elizabeth Maber full profile
REAL Centre Project Support and Communications Team
Sandra Baxter
Research uptake, knowledge management, learning processes, communications, international education and development
