Michele Schweisfurth, University of Glasgow

Michele Schweisfurth is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. She is editor of the journal Comparative Education, and a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the International Journal of Educational Development. Until recently, while at the University of Birmingham she was Director of the Centre for International Education and Research. riginally from Canada, she has extensive international experience as a teacher and researcher; among the countries where she has worked are Indonesia, Russia, South Africa, China, and The Gambia. Her research interests include education for democracy, university internationalisation, and global citizenship education, with comparative pedagogy as a theme across them all.