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Prof. Dr. Audrey Osler
Born 1953
Qualifications
BA (Hons) in History with Sociology (Leeds)
PGCE (Leeds)
MA Education and Local History (Leeds)
Advanced Diploma in Religious Education (London)
PhD (Birmingham)Membership of Professional Bodies/ Associations Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) British Educational Research Association European Educational Research Association American Educational Research Association
Profile Audrey Osler is Professor of Education at the University of Leeds and founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education. In 2007, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, she was Professor of Education, sub-Dean and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Leicester (1999-2004) and before that she was lecturer, then senior lecturer, at the University of Birmingham. She began her career as a teacher on the borders of Kent/ S.E. London, and has experience working for Birmingham Development Education Centre, and for Birmingham and Hertfordshire local authorities as an adviser for multicultural education and as a director of a teachers’ centre.
Audrey Osler has held a number of public appointments. In 2008 she was appointed to the DCSF Beyond Current Horizons Expert Advisory Group. From 2001-2003 she was a member of the British government’s advisory panel on education for sustainable development and from 2003-2006 acted as advisor to the Royal Air Force on diversity. Audrey Osler has received career recognition from a wide range of bodies, both nationally and internationally. In 2003 she was winner of the Times Educational Supplement/ NASEN award for best academic book. From 2003-2005 she was sole European representative on the University of Washington’s Consensus Panel on Citizenship and Diversity. She has acted as an advisor to a number of international organizations, including UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the Carter Center at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. In 2006 she was invited to give a keynote lecture at the 16 Commonwealth Education Ministers’ Conference in Cape Town on quality teaching and children’s human rights. She has also acted as advisor and/or trainer to national governments and NGOs, including the Korean Commission on Human Rights; the Development Education Association of Japan; Equitas, Canada; the government of Macedonia (FYROM); the Jordanian Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNICEF; the Kenyan Ministry of Education; and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education.
Professor Osler’s research focuses on the socio-cultural contexts of learning and on education policy as it relates to questions of equity and human rights. Research projects have addressed the processes of school inspection; exclusion from school; teacher careers and professional development; student perspectives on schooling; children’s human rights; diversity, identity and citizenship; faith schooling and social cohesion; and the processes of implementation of European and national policies on citizenship and multiculturalism. From 2004-2007 she was a partner in a EC Framework VI transnational project examining citizenship and intercultural education in Denmark, England, Portugal and Spain.
Audrey Osler has supervised doctoral students across a wide range of areas, including the careers of women teachers; the role of minority school governors; parents and human rights education; the implementation of citizenship education; peer group learning; pupil perspectives on violence; supplementary schooling; and human rights education in primary schools.
She has a long standing interest in international development, and in the role education can play in post-disaster and post-conflict contexts. This has led to consultancies such identifying educational needs in the aftermath of the tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia in 2005, and training in human rights education among public officials in Ethiopia during the mid 1990s.
She is currently a member of the editorial board of British Educational Research Journal; Race Ethnicity and Education; Race Equality Teaching; Education, Citizenship and Social Justice; Journal of Education for International Understanding (UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding, Seoul, Korea); and Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education (University of Nevada).
Recent Research Projects TEESAEC Teacher Empowerment to Educate Students to Become Active Citizens EC funded programme with partners in Germany, Austria, Estonia, Netherlands and Switzerland 2006-2009 Faith Schools and Community Cohesion, in partnership with Runnymede Trust, London 2007-2008 INTERACT EC Framework VI Intercultural Education and Active Citizenship, with partners at Danish University of Education, IOE, University of London; University of Coimbra, Portugal; and University of Valladolid, Spain 2003-2007. BERA Research Review 2005 Education for Democratic Citizenship: research policy and practice 1995-2005, in partnership with Hugh Starkey Leicester City School Development and Support Agency Students’ Perspectives on Schooling 2004-2006
Key activities
- Education and migration
- Intercultural education
- Minorities
- Non-discrimination/equal treatment/conflict resolution
- Racism/xenophobia
Publications
- Osler, A. (Ed.) (2005): Teachers, Human Rights and Diversity: educating citizens in a multicultural society. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham. Osler, A. & Starkey, H. (2005): Changing Citizenship: democracy and inclusion in education. Maidenhead: Open University Press. Osler, A. & Starkey, H. (Eds.) (2005): Citizenship and Language Learning. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham in co-operation with the British Council. Osler, A. & Vincent, K. (2003): Girls and Exclusion: re-thinking the agenda. London: Routledge Falmer. Osler, A. (1997): The Education and Careers of Black Teachers: changing identities, changing lives. Buckingham: Open University Press
Contact
University of LeedsProf. Dr. Audrey Osler
School of Education University of Leeds
GB LEEDS LE2 3HB
UK
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