Editorial Group

Anne Kinsella

Currently librarian at Kimmage Development Studies Centre. Previous experience Trocaire and the Public Library sector.
Interests include disabiliity access issues and development in Eastern Europe.

Audrey Bryan

Audrey Bryan lecturers in Sociology and Citizenship Education on the Humanities and Education programmes in St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. She has led a number of research projects on Global Citizenship Education and has published nationally and internationally in the fields of Intercultural education and international development. Her most recent work examines representations of international development and development education practice in schools, and a study of critical media literacy in the context of Teacher Education. Audrey serves on the National Council of the Irish Development Education Association.

Carlos Bruen

Carlos Bruen is a researcher on the "Global Health Initiatives in Africa" project at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). This project, a part of the Global HIV/AIDs Initiavites Network (GHIN) and involving researchers from 21 countries, is examining the impact global health initiatives (GHIs) are having on the health systems of countries in receipt of health funding. Recently, Carlos and colleagues at RCSI were also part of the collaborative group working on the WHO Maximising Positive Synergies between GHIs and Health Systems project. Activities of this group include: a Lancet publication, ‘Interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems’ The Lancet, Vol 373, No. 9681; a WHO country-case study report submitted to health ministers at the recent G8 meeting in Italy; and a WHO-commissioned systematic review of existing evidence on GHIs-country health system interactions. Prior to joining RCSI, Carlos worked for a number of years in the Equality Studies Centre, UCD School of Social Justice, where he coordinated or contributed to modules on global justice, gender and development, equality and the media, and research methodology. He is also a PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Psychology, LSE, conducting research on the social representations of international development in Ireland.

Douglas Bourn

Dr Douglas Bourn is Director of the Development Education Research Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. The Centre was established in 2006 with funding from DFID and acts as the knowledge hub for development education both in the UK and internationally. He is also editor of the International Journal for Development Education and Global Learning. His most recent publication is Development Education: Debates and Dialogues. He has also written a range of articles on global citizenship and education for sustainable development. He is also Chair of Earth Charter UK and Chair of Tower Hamlets Humanities Education Centre in London. From 2004 to 2009 he was Chair of UNESCO UK Committee on Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. From 1993 to 2006 he was Director of the Development Education Association. He has also been a member of a range of UK government advisory panels on areas such as development awareness, sustainable development education and global citizenship.

Gerard McCann

Gerard McCann is a Senior Lecturer and Module Co-ordinator in European Studies at St Mary’s University College, A College of Queen’s University Belfast. Dr McCann has guest lecturing experience at universities in Memphis, Cork, Seattle, Lusaka, Kosice and Paderborn. He is currently the academic manager of the Department for International Development (2005-2008) and Trocaire (2008-2010) funded ‘Global Dimension in Education Project’. He is the co-ordinator of a partnership programme with the University of Zambia and a member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Dr Gerard McCann has written extensively on the European Union’s economic and development policies; EU policy in Ireland; and development education. He was Chairperson of the Centre for Global Education's Management Board for seven years.

Paul Hainsworth

Paul Hainsworth is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Ulster. His specialisms include international human rights, the extreme right and European integration. He is active in Amnesty International and has a long-standing commitment to the democratisation process in Timor-Leste. He is editor of The Extreme Right in Europe and the USA (Pinter, 1992) and The Politics of the Extreme Right (Pinter, 2000). His most recent book is The Extreme Right in Western Europe (Routledge, 2008). He was formerly a member of the One World Centre’s Management Board (currently the Centre for Global Education), and has served on the Editorial Group for Policy and Practice since its inception in 2005.

Róisín Boyle

Róisín Boyle works as a Development Education Project Officer at Comhlámh. She has previously worked in Cambodia with the International Organisation for Migration where she developed “Safe Migration – a Pre-Departure Orientation Manual for Migrant Workers” endorsed by the Cambodian Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. She lectured for several years in Japan, most recently, at Sophia University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. She has published internationally in the fields of International Development and Linguistics. 

Roland Tormey

Roland Tormey is Head of the Department of Education and Professional Studies in the University of Limerick.  He is a former Chairperson of the Development Education NGO 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World, and has represented Ireland on a number of UN bodies for the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 – 2014.  He has published national and internationally on inequality, development and diversity issues in education and has worked with the Irish National Council for Curriculum and Assessment on the award winning Guidelines on Intercultural Education in Primary and Post-Primary Schools and on the development of a social scientific subject at post-primary level.

Sarah Hunt

Sarah Hunt recently completed her doctoral studies at the Centre for Peace and Development at the University of Limerick on the politics of the Poverty Reduction Strategy processes in Latin America, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (IRCHSS). Prior to this Sarah spent a number of years working with Trócaire in Central America, and as an ODI Fellow in the Ministry of Finance in Tanzania. 

Stephen McCloskey

Stephen McCloskey is the Managing Editor of Policy and Practice and Director of the Centre for Global Education.  He has extensive experience of managing and delivering global education projects, strategic planning, advocacy and monitoring / evaluation.  His publications include The East Timor Question: The Struggle for Independence from Indonesia (IB Tauris, 2000, with Paul Hainsworth) and From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies (Pluto Press, London and New York, 2003 with Gerard McCann; 2nd edition published in August 2009).  He has commissioned several research projects on global education practice and regularly collaborates with development education networks and organizations both locally and internationally.

Su-ming Khoo

Su-ming Khoo is a lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway. Her research interests are in globalisation, development theory and political economy of development, with an emphasis on alternative approaches within the broad frame of human development. She has a special interest in issues of culture, decolonization, environment, democratization and knowledge advocacy within the political economy of development. Recent published work includes articles and book chapters on rights, development and Millennium Development Goals, citizenship and development and development education, in publications including Policy and Practice, Trocaire Development Review, and Globalization, Citizenship and the War on Terror (2007). She is currently Project Leader of the Development Education and Research Network at NUI Galway: www.nuigalway.ie/dern.