Programme Research Fellow, UCL
As a qualitative researcher, Amy gained her PhD in Comparative and International Education, exploring Ghanaian primary school teachers’ views on decolonising citizenship, articulated as ethnic, national, and Black African Consciousness and their experiences of teaching about British Colonial History and the British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
She has over 20 years’ experience of working as an educationist- including as a primary school teacher (QTS) in England and teacher trainer in South Africa, China, and India, as a researcher at UCL IOE, exploring the role of Indigenous pedagogies in Indian urban primary schools, and as a policy researcher at UUK, leading on the university-wide project ‘Tackling racial harassment.’ Amy is currently working towards Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.