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Audrey Osler

Dr Audrey Osler is Professor of Education, researching human rights, social justice, and democratic citizenship education policy and practice, in established democracies and post-conflict societies. She has a long-standing interest in the place of narrative and life history in education research and practice and her PhD (published as The Education and Careers of Black Teachers – 1997, Open University Press) examined the contribution of minority teachers to transformative education. She has held professorships and visiting professorships at a number of universities in the U.S. (University of Washington, Utah State University) and in Europe. She is founding director of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education at the University of Leeds and currently holds visiting posts at Hong Kong Institute of Education and Buskerud University College, Norway.

Professor Osler has published over 120 scientific articles and 18 books, with translations in Mandarin, Japanese and European languages – most recently authoring Students’ Perspectives on Schooling (2010, Open University Press) and co-authoring Teachers and Human Rights Education (2010, Trentham). Her book Changing Citizenship (written with Hugh Starkey) is currently being translated by colleagues at the Center for Civic and Moral Education, Beijing Normal University, and the Mandarin edition will be published by McGraw-Hill Asia.

Audrey Osler is consultant to a number of international bodies, including Council of Europe, European Commission and UNESCO. She was a member the British Council-funded INTERDEMOCRATE action research team 2010-12 in Iraq-Kurdistan, studying school democracy through student-centred learning. She is currently expert adviser to the Lebanese Ministry of Education’s citizenship curriculum initiative.