Dr Marta Moskal: Conflict, Migration and Education

Today’s education in emergencies emphasises protecting the right to education in crisis situations, while conflict is theoralised as interruption to education. In this talk Dr Marta Moskal will provide an overview of current geopolitical situation (globally drawing on selected local case studies) and recent research to explain the development of the field of education in conflict and emergencies. The presentation and follow up discussion will focus on the questions: In which ways conflict and migration can be understood as challenge faced by education systems locally, nationally and internationally? And how to realise the right to education for all in the conflict and emergencies contexts? 

About the speaker

Marta Moskal is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Sociology of Education and Migration. She joined the School of Education at Glasgow from Durham University (2017-20). She trained at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at the University of Montpellier in geography, sociology and public policy and received a PhD from Jagiellonian in 2004. She then was Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh (2006-07) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh (2008-11), and Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow (2012-16).

Her research addresses the need for equitable opportunities for ethnic minorities and migrants important for institutions and states. Her work demonstrates social and cultural diversity matters for optimal education and career outcomes of a society. And how this knowledge can be translated into fair and inclusive policies and practices for migrant students, workers, refugees and families to help them realise their best contribution, including the large influx of students to Higher Education in the UK.