Dr Aliandra Barlete

Teaching Fellow in Education

Biography

Qualifications

PhD in Sociology of Education, Faculty of Education, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (UK)

MPhil in Higher Education, University of Oslo (Norway), University of Tampere (Finland) and University of Aveiro (Portugal) - Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree 

BA in Social Communications, Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) 

Responsibilities & affiliations

- British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE), Member

- British Educational Research Association (BERA), Member

- Comparative and International Education Studies (CIES), Member

- Early Career Higher Education Researchers Network (ECHER), Member

- Society for Research into Higher Education (SHRE), Member

- UNESCO Global Institute for Higher Education (Venezuela), Former consultant

- Aurora Education Foundation for the inclusion of indigenous students (Australia), Mentor

Postgraduate teaching

I teach on the MSc in Comparative Education and International Development as well as on the MSc Education.

- Education Policy and the Politics of Education

- The Philosophy of Education

- Comparative Education and International Development 

- Comparative Analysis in Education

- Conceptualising Research: Foundations, Assumptions and Praxis

- Dissertation

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Research summary

My main research interest is in the societal role of higher education. I study HE from multiple lenses, particularly sociological and comparative. I am also interested in the multiple approaches to education policy-making. 

For almost two decades I have researched about the international dimension of higher education. My main interest is the dynamics of regional and inter-regional higher education frameworks in the developing world, having studied Latin American regionalisms extensively.

Theoretically, I engage with critical approaches to explaining social phenomena (i.e. social theory, critical realism). The work with Latin America also inspired me to study decolonial and postcolonial theories. As a consequence, I have been redirecting my theoretical work towards exploring, as well as teaching about, 'Southern' theoretical understandings of educational phenomena (Connell, 2007, 2014).  

 

 

Current research interests

- Southern Social Theory and Education - Methodologies for the analysis of causal explanations in educational phenomena - Higher education policy

Knowledge exchange

I act as a reviewer for the journals: 

- Education Policy Analysis Archives

- Educação e realidade

- Globalisation, Societies and Education

- Journal of Studies in International Education

- Migration and Society

Affiliated research centres

Project activity

- Southern Social theory and education: This project has the objective to critically discover, recognise and include ‘Southern’ theoretical perspectives in educational analysis. It aims to inspire students to develop critical analyses of education practice and policy using theoretical knowledge originating from the Global South, or postcolonial theories that critique hegemonic social science knowledge (from January 2022).

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