Alison Buckler

Alison Buckler

Alison Buckler is a founding member and current Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Development (CSGD). She is a Professor of International Education at The Open University.

Alison’s research focuses on education and educator development in low-resource contexts, using visual, creative and collaborative methodologies. She has led and co-led projects in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Sudan, South Africa, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and the UK. Two key themes in her work – both empirically and in relation to research design – are inclusion and collaboration. Recent projects include an AHRC-funded study into young people’s and teachers’ experiences of and perspectives around inclusion/exclusion in Nigeria, South Africa and the UK; a Learning Generation Initiative (LGI) funded study into how ‘learning teams’ can support children’s learning and wellbeing in Kenya, Nepal, Ghana and Bangladesh, and an Open University funded study of how creative approaches with young people can lead to more inclusive policy development in schools in Wales.

Since 2017 she has co-led a global network of researchers and practitioners who use, and think critically about, the use of storytelling in research. Through this she has worked closely with the organisation Transformative Story.

Alison has worked with and advised several major NGOs, organisations and Ministries, including Plan International, World Vision, Save the Children, the Learning Generation Initiative, and the Teacher Development Agency. She is also the Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) and Chair of the Editorial Board for the Compare Journal.