Josh Watters (PhD student)
Thesis title: Cosmopolitan capital and global citizenship: British international schooling in post-colonial Southeast Asia
PhD Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Contact details
- Email: j.e.t.watters@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
I am a part-time doctoral student, completing my research alongside working as a teacher in a secondary school. I am now in my 16th year of teaching and my career has taken me through a range of roles both in England and overseas.
My doctoral research sits most comfortably within the sociology of education and looks at British schooling in Southeast Asia (particularly Malaysia and Thailand). I am interested in the proliferation of British international schools throughout the region - particularly in relation to cosmopolitanism - and how this fits into the historical context of colonialism in Southeast Asia.
Qualifications
MA, UCL Institute of Education
PGCE, University of Cambridge
GRNCM, Royal Northern College of Music
MusB (Hons), University of Manchester
Research summary
- Cosmopolitanism
- Global Citizenship Education
- Legacies of colonialism
- International schooling
Conference details
Watters, J. (2024). Becoming ‘siwilai’: British international schooling in post-colonial Thailand. BAICE Conference 2024, Brighton, UK.