ABOUT TiE – THE TEAM

 ​TRANSFORM-iN EDUCATION is coordinated by two  researchers,  Dr Perpetua Kirby  and Dr Rebecca Webb, both ethnographers and qualitative researchers. They bring their experience of working within and outside education, together with over-lapping research interests, to collaborate for TRANSFORM-iN EDUCATION. They are both members of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth (CIRCY) and the Centre for Teaching and Learning Research (CTLR) at the University of Sussex. They are also Fellows of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP).
 
Perpetua Kirby   is a Lecturer at the University of Sussex. She co-convenes the BA in Childhood and Youth Studies, and a course creating a Forest Food Garden on the university campus. Before her doctorate, she researched children and young people's participation within different sectors, including social care, health and education. Her research interests are children's agency, democratic and transformative schooling, environmental education, and research using multimodal creative approaches.

​Rebecca Webb is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sussex, and she convenes the MA in Education. Before becoming an academic, she  was a teacher and local authority education adviser for Equality, Diversity, Achievement and Inclusion with a specialism in English As An Additonal Language (EAL).  Her research interests include ideas of citizenship,  democratic schooling, and researching transformative pedagogies and practice.   
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