We are pleased to announce seven new fellowship appointments for the GEM Report for this calendar year.
The GEM Report Fellowship programme started in 2019. This yr, the new Fellows are discovering various concerns of importance to the GEM Report’s monitoring agenda: equity, local weather adjust and know-how, the latter of which could feed into the 2023 GEM Report.
Understanding inequality and the attainment of world wide education objectives: insights from Ghana’s simple university program
Rodney Buadi Nkrumah is an innovative amount PhD applicant at the McGill College of Social Work, Montreal, Canada. His research and proposed Fellowship emphasis on a blended solutions style to investigate discovering inequality in Ghana’s standard faculty system, such as comprehensive insights from underserved communities in northern Ghana to enable discover micro-stage encounters that hinder studying.
Institutional situations for equitable entry to higher education in Ecuador: a novel linked administrative info investigation
Magali Ramos Jarrin is at this time pursuing a PhD in Education and learning at the College of Cambridge. She holds a BA in Integrated Social Sciences from Jacobs University and a MSc in Social Plan and Growth from the London Faculty of Economics and Political Science. Because 2015, Magali has been performing as Undersecretary for Scholarships and Scholar Financial loans and Undersecretary for Teacher Professional Improvement at the Ministry of Instruction in Ecuador. Her paper takes advantage of administrative information to recognize the institutional ailments (at faculty and higher instruction amount) linked with students’ accessibility to community universities in Ecuador.
Embracing teachers’ part in promoting fairness in the classroom: global styles and proof from 33 countries
Dr Nani Teig is an associate professor of science schooling at the University of Oslo and Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. She will look at teachers’ part in advertising equity in arithmetic and science school rooms throughout 33 international locations applying information from the 2019 Tendencies in Intercontinental Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Her analysis brings with each other significant-scale information from surveys, assessments, movies, and laptop or computer logfiles to superior comprehend how teachers and policymakers can greatly enhance scholar studying, drive and resilience.
Mapping the impacts of climate alter on children’s instruction in the International South
Applying Demographic Well being Study details, study by Fellows, Kai and Sukie will examine how local weather transform has impacted SDG 4 connected indicators, these types of as early childhood education and learning, college attendance, attainment, and irrespective of whether there are differential impacts on girls and boys.
Kai Feng is a doctoral scholar in Sociology and Demography at the University of Pennsylvania. His investigation focuses on gender inequality in education and learning, labour sector and the household domains. Sukie Xiuqi Yang is a Ph.D. scholar in sociology and demography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is intrigued in leveraging longitudinal survey details, text info, social media knowledge and spatial info to examine the social world. Her investigate focuses on migration, household, early childhood development, social stratification and local climate change in China and from an global comparative perspective.
Technologies integration in the Cambodian better education technique in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Eam’s and Song’s fellowship research aims to recognize the responses of Cambodian larger training institutions and their lecturers to the COVID-19 pandemic and their sustainability six months and two several years following the outbreak in the region.
Dr Eam Phyrom is presently serving as a analysis specialist for the Centre for Instructional Exploration and Innovation of the Cambodia Growth Resource Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Academic Development and Cultural and Regional Reports from the Graduate College for International Growth and Cooperation at Hiroshima University, Japan. His investigation parts include things like educational industry experts, exploration general performance and better schooling growth.Dr. Song Sopheak is Director of the Centre for Academic Investigate and Innovation. He joined the Centre as a exploration fellow in Oct 2016 just after endeavor submit-doctoral exploration at the World Occupation Layout Center of Hiroshima College. He is leading several analysis tasks on specialized and vocational education and schooling and increased instruction. His analysis has centered on educating and learning, workforce development, vocational and specialist education, university-market linkages, and engineering integration in education. Dr Song retains a Ph.D. in Educational Science and Humanities from Hiroshima University, Japan.
The GEM Report Fellowship programme was introduced in 2019. It aims to fortify the proof foundation on education, create analysis ability in schooling, and fortify the links concerning instruction research, coverage and practice. The 7 new Fellows join 5 Fellows in 2021, three in 2020 and four in 2019. We are grateful to the Open Society Foundations for their assist to the Fellowship programme and are fired up to go through about the results that our up coming spherical of Fellows uncover in their get the job done. A lot more information on the GEM Report Fellowship programme is available here.
