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Professor Caroline Dyer holds the position of Professor of Education and International Development at the University of Leeds, within the School of Politics and International Studies. She is affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Centre for Global Development. Her expertise spans education in international development, social inclusion, policy development, and the challenges faced by mobile pastoralist communities in accessing education systems. Dyer has a BA in German with Dutch from the University of Liverpool, followed by a career as an English language teacher and education journalist in Hong Kong. She completed her doctoral thesis on Indian educational policy implementation at the University of Edinburgh, funded by the ESRC.
Her research focuses on how education intersects with social justice, particularly for marginalized groups including mobile pastoralists in India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Mongolia. Current projects include GCRF-funded studies on dignity and heritage among mobile pastoralist women in India and early years numeracy in India. She has led major initiatives such as the ESRC-funded 'Literacy for Nomads' project and served as Chair of key academic bodies like the British Association for International and Comparative Education and the WUN Global Challenge in Higher Education and Research.
Her book *Livelihoods and Learning* (2017) critiques the exclusion of mobile pastoralists from formal education systems and advocates for policy reforms. Dyer’s work emphasizes participatory research methodologies for policy advocacy and has contributed to UNESCO’s Education Sector Policy Review in Mongolia. She currently oversees PhD supervision and teaches on the MA Global Development programme, focusing on education in development and global inequalities.
