About
Dr Francesca Peruzzo is a Research Fellow in Educational Equity and Policy at the University of Birmingham's School of Education. Her work focuses on the intersection of politics, policy, education governance, and inclusion through post-structural and decolonial lenses. She examines education policies' impacts on equity, particularly for disadvantaged and disabled children in global contexts.
Her research employs critical ethnographic methods and network governance analysis, with expertise in ableism, higher education policy, and critical inclusion studies. Current projects explore decolonial and inclusive governance in the Global North and South post-pandemic. She co-authored Students, teachers, families, and a socially just education: Rewriting the grammar of schooling to unsettle identities and has secured funding from the YTL Foundation, Sociological Review Foundation, and the UK Department for Education.
Her work critiques state roles in education privatization and advocates for equitable educational experiences through reimagining institutional structures.
