Welcome to my personal website!
I use this site to tell about my interests, share publications and other materials related to my research.
Since November 2023, I am a Lecturer in Education in the School of Education, University of Glasgow. Here I do research and teach about global education governance, international and comparative education, and sociology of education.
Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Hertie School, Berlin, Germany, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and UC Louvain outside Brussels, Belgium. I undertook my PhD at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.
I started my career as a teacher, teaching Danish, Math, English and Physical Education to newly arrived migrants and refugees of age 16-18, mainly from East and South Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
This experience showed me how much students' opportunities depend on decisions made far beyond the classroom. It sparked my interest in the policies, institutions and systems that shape education, and prompted me to study them in depth.
Photo by Hugues Draelants
Research interests
My principal research interests are global governance, comparative research, and the varying outcomes of liberalisation and liberal ideology in education sectors across the globe since the 1970s.
I have worked with these issues in many different ways since the mid-2000s, first as a teacher, then as a consultant and an academic.
In my research, I draw upon the theories and concepts from the disciplines of education, sociology and political science to make sense of these developments.
Publications
In November 2024 the World Yearbook of Education 2025. The Teaching Profession in a Globalizing World: Governance, Career, Learning was published. I co-edited this volume together with Xavier Dumay and Lynn Paine. The World Yearbook of Education book series goes back to the 1960s.
I have in recent years published articles in the academic journals Comparative Education Review, Currículo sem Fronteiras, Discourse, European Educational Research Journal, and Globalisation, Societies and Education. I have also written several chapters in major anthologies about education policy and globalization.
Consultancy and commissioned research
I work with public bodies, governments, and international organisations that need independent, evidence-based analysis and discussion. My expertise covers education governance, European and global education policy, and the teaching profession.
I offer commissioned studies and evidence reviews, discussion papers, comparative research, case studies, policy recommendations, and rapporteur services for high-level conferences and summits.
