Category: 2025 UKFIET Conference

Relational ecologies of knowledge and practice

by Moira V Faul, Keith Holmes, Catherine Odora Hoppers, Prachi Srivastava and Leon Tikly | Dec 9, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Decolonisation, Learning

Struggles for cognitive justice continue to shape everyday practice in education and research. A workshop envisioned new, reparative ways of knowing and being together that prioritize community knowledges and contextual epistemologies, equitable resource distribution, and ethical funding and publication pipelines. Read More

Removing the Extra from Extracurricular: Reimagining Activities as Core Catalysts for Classroom Connection

by Yajur Dolwani | Dec 8, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Learning

Extracurricular activities (ECAs) have long been seen as add-ons to schooling. But what if these activities are actually the key to forging deeper peer connections, boosting student participation, and creating classrooms where every voice is heard and valued? Read More

Why children’s literature belongs in conversations on education and inclusion

by Deepali Agarwal | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Literacy and Numeracy

Access to rich and engaging literature at home is a severe gap for Global South populations, with studies suggesting that access to children’s literature in India is limited to 1 book available for 5 children in urban areas, and 1 book available for every 11 children in rural areas. In… Read More

Grappling with familiar and emerging questions: My reflections from the UKFIET 2025 Conference

by Srinidhi Lakshmanan | Nov 26, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

The UKFIET 2025 conference was my first international conference, and the opportunity to gather with a global education community that deeply cares about the state of the world and education today was extremely humbling and rewarding. Read More

Scaling with digital technology and AI: What else should we be thinking about?

by UKFIET and Dina D. Fajardo-Tovar | Nov 19, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Learning

The education and international development sector has found in technology and AI an excellent way to scale impact. Digital technology and AI have been used as powerful tools to reach more communities, children, teachers and families, especially in areas where access to quality education remains limited. Read More

The balancing act between agency and complicity: Reflections from the UKFIET 2025 conference

by Geneviève Greer | Nov 17, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Conflict, Crisis and Emergency

The hall fell silent. It was one of the most visceral, uncomfortable moments I have witnessed at a conference – exposing tensions at the heart of the week’s theme. In a world woven together by the digital and the geopolitical, how do we mobilise partnerships without reproducing injustice? Read More

Power, partnerships and progress: Scaling teacher development partnerships in South Asia

by M Affan Javed | Nov 12, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Teachers

In South Asia, education systems are vast, layered and deeply hierarchical. Across a range of academic disciplines, the structures for Teacher Professional Development (TPD) can be framed as micro (individual), meso (institutional) and macro (national). Read More

Reflections on my experience of the 2025 UKFIET Conference: On hierarchy, hard questions and praxis

by Mercy Martins | Nov 11, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

The 2025 UKFIET three-day conference was unlike any I had attended in my three years of doctoral research. The event blurred the divide between research and praxis: every hallway, every room, and every conversation included both researchers and policymakers, discussing what research says and what is happening in practice. Read More

Inclusion and intersectionality in education: Final reflections from conveners of UKFIET 2025 conference theme

by Samantha Ross, Michelle Sandall and Laraib Niaz | Nov 10, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

The ‘Inclusion and Intersectionality’ theme at the 2025 UKFIET Conference brought together researchers, practitioners and policymakers from across the world to interrogate what inclusion means in practice, and for whom. Read More

Coming together: Pathways for research partnerships between state and non-state actors

by Srinidhi Lakshmanan and Rajat Chaudhary | Nov 5, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

Research has become an integral part of how education systems reflect, learn and plan for improvement. In India, District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) are envisioned as local, district-level hubs for teacher education, research and training. However, many DIETs often struggle to meet the research mandate due to limited… Read More

Teacher agency in action: Insights from the UKFIET Forum

by Hannah Walker and Sophie Lashford | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Teachers

Teachers are the heart of our education systems, yet their voices are often missing from the conversations shaping policies and reforms that affect their daily work. Following World Teachers’ Day, we reflect on insights from a UKFIET (the Education for Development Forum) symposium convened by Save the Children UK with… Read More

Defending gender equality in education: An urgent agenda and call to action

by Ján Michalko, Fernanda Gándara, Rachel Marcus, Sheena Hadi, Fabricia Devignes, Natalia Sanchez Corrales and Sarah Lane Smith | Nov 3, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Gender Equity

This blog is written by: Ján Michalko, Fernanda Gándara, Rachel Marcus, Sheena Hadi, Natalia Sanchez-Corrales, Fabricia Devignes, and Sarah Lane Smith. This blog summarises a...