Amy North

Dr Amy North serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Practice & Society at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Her research critically examines educational inequalities in low-income contexts and settings affected by migration, displacement, and mobility, with sustained focus on gender dynamics and marginalized populations.

Educational background:

• Doctor of Philosophy, University College London (2016)
• Recognised Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, University College London (2017)

Research Focus: Dr North's work interrogates the complex intersections of education, migration, and development through critical feminist and postcolonial lenses. Her scholarship centers on girls' and women's educational experiences in transnational contexts, literacy as social practice among migrant communities, and teacher education reforms in gender equality initiatives. Current projects emphasize conflict-affected settings and the implementation gaps in global education policy frameworks.

Publication analysis reveals consistent thematic progression from foundational work on gender-poverty-education linkages toward contemporary investigations of mobility, displacement, and educational resilience. Her output demonstrates methodological diversity spanning ethnographic studies of migrant domestic workers in London, multi-country policy analyses in Africa, and theoretical contributions to decolonizing development education.

Awards:

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

As Academic Head of Learning and Teaching, Dr North leads the Migration, Education and Development module and supervises doctoral research on education-migration-imbility nexus and women's literacy. Her research partnerships include the Education Research in Conflict and Crisis (ERICC) consortium, British Council collaborations on Nigerian teacher education, and UNESCO-commissioned studies on gendered impacts of school closures.

Dr North coordinates the Education, Migration and (Im)mobility research strand within the UCL Centre for Education and International Development (CEID) and contributes to the International Literacy Centre's work on transnational learning practices, positioning her at the forefront of critical scholarship on education in global crisis contexts.