Our CEID Research Group Compendium and details about our research projects. CEID Research Group CompendiumThis document highlights some of the work completed by group members in the past year. This is just a sample of our members' work and does not include information on all members or all research. Download the latest compendium Highlighted current research projects Connected Learning in Contexts of Forced Displacement CEID Research Group Participation: Dr Michael Gallagher (co-editor)This forthcoming special issue in the Journal of Interactive Media in Education explores understandings of connected learning provision at tertiary and higher education (HE) in contexts that constitute forced displacement - in emergency settings, and in resettlement and asylum contexts. This special collection looks at how educational programmes and initiatives at higher and tertiary level, supported by technology and aimed at forcibly displaced students (i.e., refugees, people seeking asylum, stateless people), might further inform efforts at educational inclusion of marginalised and non-dominant communities.Learn more about the Journal of Interactive Media in Education Connected Policy, Practice, and Accreditation: Connected Refugee Education in Ugandan Higher Education CEID Research Group Participation: Dr Michael GallagherFunder: Royal Society of Scotland Data for Children Collaborative CEID Group Member Participation: Dr William C Smith (Academic Lead)The Data for Children Collaborative is a specialist unit within the Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh. It finds innovative ways to enable impactful cross-sector collaborations and to deliver data-driven projects responsibly by leveraging the right data and the right expertise from their community in order to address existing problems for children.Visit the Data for Children Collaborative website Evidence Review and Contextual Analysis of Connected Higher Education for Refugees CEID Research Group Participation:Dr Andie Reynolds (PI)Dr Michael Gallagher (co-I)Dr Lindsey Horner (co-I)Sarah Austin (co-I)Shrikant Wad (co-I)This project seeks to build the evidence base for refugee education and action. We are looking at the conditions in 12 pilot countries:CameroonChadEcuadorIraqLebanonMexicoNigerPakistanRwandaSouth AfricaSouth SudanZambiathat may enable or inhibit pathways to greater numbers of refugees entering higher education.The project is designed to understand the impacts of connected HE programmes for refugees on labour market outcomes, community engagement and social outcomes.Funder: United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium Remediating Stevenson: Decolonizing Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement CEID Research Group Participation: Dr Shari Sabeti (co-I)This interdisciplinary project explores the legacies of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific writing, investigating the relevance of his work to contemporary readers in Sāmoa, Scotland and Hawai‘i, and producing new art and poetry inspired by the three short stories published in Stevenson’s 1893 collection Island Nights’ Entertainments. Given that educational institutions throughout the world are actively engaged in decolonising their curricula, Stevenson’s work and legacy present a particularly valuable focus of inquiry.Funder: Arts and Humanities Research CouncilVisit the Remediating Stevenson project website Safe, inclusive participative pedagogy: Improving early childhood education in fragile contexts CEID Research Group Participation: Dr Marlies Kustatscher (Co-I)Collaborative Partners:Childhood & Youth Studies Research Group, University of EdinburghThe Children’s Institute, University of Cape TownThe International Centre for Research and Policy on Childhood at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroBethlehem UniversityUniversity of EswatiniThis partnership research project runs from January 2020 to January 2024. It aims to identify and develop safe, inclusive participative pedagogy that is implementable in fragile contexts and sustainable for governments, communities and families. The project will be undertaken with partners in Brazil, Eswatini, Palestine, South Africa and Scotland, using a mixed-method approach. This includes:qualitative community case studies in each countrypolicy and systems analysis at country and community levelsdeveloping the economic case for safe inclusive pedagogyCommunity engagement and participation underpin the project and there is a strong focus on knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.Funder: UKRI Collective Fund and Economic and Social Research Council School Closures, Openings, and Related Impacts of the COVID Pandemic in Scotland and Comparator Countries CEID Research Group Participation:Dr William C Smith (PI)Dr Fatih Aktas (co-I)Dr Lynn McNair (co-I)This comparative study focuses on school closure experiences in 13 countries. School closure experience is defined as the time period between the country’s first school closure through their last school reopening. Approaches to school closure and reopening, and the impact of the school closure experience in Scotland are examined next to those in identified comparator countries. We broadly examine what happened during this period and what was the impact of what happened on children in the included countries.Funder: Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry Social Theory Walks: The City of Edinburgh as a Teaching Space for Social Theory Applied to Education CEID Research Group Participation:Dr Aliandra BarleteDr Lindsey HornerThe project aims to offer concepts-infused guided walks around Edinburgh as a way to illustrate how social theory becomes practice in the city’s past and present.Funder: Principal Teaching Award, University of Edinburgh Strengthening quality learning environments and education systems in DRC and Niger CEID Research Group Participation: Dr Jean-Benoît Falisse (advisor)Collaborative Partners:IDSSave the ChildrenThe research evaluates a EU/Save the Children-project that seeks to increase access for 85,000 girls and boys to safe learning environments, contributing at the same time to their psycho-social wellbeing. The project will engage parents and communities in school governance, establishing governance bodies and children’s clubs in schools in Diffa and Zinder (Niger) and in South Kivu (DRC).Funder: European Union Surveying the Uses of Podcasts in Higher Education CEID Research Group Participation: Dr Fatih Aktas (co-I)Funder: British Association for International and Comparative Education The Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Governance of Education CEID Research Group Participation:Dr William C Smith (co-editor)Professor Sotiria Grek (co-editor)This forthcoming special issue in the International Review of Education brings together a collection of papers that explore the various ways in which the SDGs affect education, as well as how the SDGs are representative of a global agenda for change. This collection draws attention to how the SDGs can be seen as both a product of global governance and a mechanism through which global governance is used to influence nations and regions.Learn more about the International Review of Education This article was published on 2024-10-07