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Associate Professor of Education and Global Development, University of East Anglia (UEA)
Dr Catherine Jere is Associate Professor of Education and Global Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Cutting across research, training and practice, Dr Jere’s interests centre on exploring how institutional and social barriers to education can be challenged and disrupted, including addressing gender inequalities in and through education. She is keen to promote high-quality, mixed-methods, participatory and transformative research designs leading to impact in practice and policy.
Prior to joining UEA, Dr Jere was worked with UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report team in Paris and served as Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Training (CERT), University of Malawi. She has led collaborative, cross-country research projects within southern Africa and worked with governments and international development partners, including FCDO, UNICEF, USAID, and GIZ. Currently, she is research lead for a 3-year Global Partnership for Education Knowledge Innovation Exchange (GPE-KIX) programme to address boys’ and youth disengagement from education in Cambodia, Malawi and Lesotho. Dr Jere is Co-Chair of the UEA UNESCO Chair programme for Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education.