Current Fellows

Visting HGSE: September 5-15th, 2023

Gavin will teach A811B4: Teacher Professional Development for Equity: Cases from the Republic of Ireland. 

Class dates: September 5, 7, 12, and 14th from 4:30-6:45pm

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Student Networking Event Friday, September 8th from 12-1pm. Location: TBD RSVP

Dr Gavin Murphy is an educator, researcher, and scholar with expertise in the field of teacher education and development, educational leadership (most notably, leadership development), data and evidence use, and school and system improvement. Dr Murphy earned his PhD in Education and Lifelong Learning from University College Dublin in 2020. Prior to this, he completed an MPhil as a Cambridge Trust European Scholar at the University of Cambridge in 2016, before an Endeavour Fellowship at the University of Melbourne in 2018. With a diverse professional background, Dr Murphy is also a qualified secondary school languages teacher. He has gained extensive practical experience in various educational settings, both nationally in Ireland as well as internationally in the UK, Switzerland and Australia.

Dr Murphy joined Trinity College Dublin as Assistant Professor in the School of Education 2020. Here, Dr Murphy is deeply engaged in research-led and research-driven teaching. He is actively engaged in various programs, including the Professional Master of Education (PME) support pre-service teachers’ research, the MEd in Leadership and Policy in Education as Strand Leader, and has also taught on research-intensive programs including the PhD and D.Ed. Through his teaching, he intertwines theory, research, practice, and policy, creating a comprehensive learning experience for students. He regularly collaborates with community-based teacher educators and system leaders in his teaching.

Dr Murphy's research is at the forefront of central debates linking educational policy, leadership, and teacher and school leaders’ professional education. His focus lies in exploring the development and implementation of educational change and reform at the system level, research-informed improvements in schools, and - at this juncture - the promotion of educational quality and equity through effective teaching and leadership development. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Educational Administration; Educational Management, Administration, and Leadership; the Journal of Educational Administration and History; School Leadership and Management; and others. Dr Murphy also initiated an educational leadership webinar series in 2020 titled 'In Conversation With,' which features prominent international academics discussing contemporary educational leadership issues and is publicly available on Trinity College Dublin's channels.

Beyond the classroom, Dr Murphy has contributed significantly to programmatic quality, review, and development on both an international and national scale. He has served as an external examiner on educational leadership programs at the prestigious University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the Master of Education program at University College Cork. These experiences have honed his ability to enhance educators' professional development and align curricula with national qualification frameworks.

Emily will teach A811B6: Art Practice, Research, and Creative Learning in the Art Museum. Register on my.harvard.edu 

Visiting October 23-November 3rd, 2023

Dr Emily Pringle trained as a painter and worked for several years as an artist, educator, researcher and programmer. In 2010 she joined Tate as Head of Learning Practice and Research. In that role she convened the Tate Research Centre: Learning and researched and wrote specifically on the role of artists in museum education and creative learning more broadly. In 2017 Emily was awarded a ten-month AHRC Leadership Fellowship to examine research practices in art museums. The publication from this research 'Rethinking Research in the Art Museum' was published by Routledge in July 2019. From February 2019 to December 2023 Emily was Head of Research at Tate, during which time she created and implemented a five-year research strategy and delivery plan and oversaw research projects and activity across Tate. Emily now works as a freelance museum consultant and researcher and maintains her PRAM research blog (practitionerresearchintheartmuseum.wordpress.com). Emily is an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham and an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Suman will teach, A811B5: Foundational Learning: Translating Policy into Action.

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Visiting HGSE, October 2- 13th, 2023.

Education Specialist UNICEF

Dr. Sachdeva has extensive experience of over two decades working with government and stakeholders in South Asia and Africa, driving important pieces around education and adolescent empowerment. In these domains, she has been providing technical leadership, strengthening evidence base to drive policy and programme-based system reforms. Currently, she is the global lead for primary education, foundational learning at UNICEF HQ. More recently she spearheaded the high-profile Global Partnership for Education grants in Sierra Leone in West Africa. In that position she also led the work around strengthening foundational literacy to address learning poverty, adolescent empowerment, including supporting them to gain life skills and skills for productive lives and engaging youth as catalysts of societal change.

Prior to this, she led the quality education adolescents’ empowerment portfolio in UNICEF India; additionally, she was the education lead for the Generation Unlimited partnership, which reached the largest adolescent population in the world.

Earlier, as Director of Education, she steered the education program of CARE India working with the most vulnerable and “last mile” population. Before this, she led the education and life skills program in Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India, working with an Indian NGO. She has been a senior consultant to the Ministry of Education, India; and also consulted with international and national NGOs, and donor agencies.

Suman has a Ph.D. and double master’s degrees in Education and Philosophy. As an alum 2015 Echidna Global Scholar at Brookings Institution DC, she continues to contribute to the education sector.

Dr. David Moinina Sengeh serves as the Chief Minister and the Chief Innovation Officer of the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone. As Chief Minister, his role is to serve as adviser to the President and Vice President, and to work with the other
Ministries, Departments and Agencies to deliver on the Government's agenda. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Sengeh served as Sierra Leone’s Minister of Basic and
Senior Secondary Education from 2019 to 2023.

Internationally, Dr. Sengeh serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report and is a member of the executive committee of the Board of the Global Partnership for Education. He also serves as co-chair of the technical committee for UNESCO's High-Level Steering Committee for Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education, and served as chair of the advisory board for
the 2022 Transforming Education Summit. 

Dr. Sengeh has been recognized as a senior TED Fellow, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, an Obama Foundation Africa Leader, a National Geographic Explorer and in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Technology. Prior to joining the Sierra Leone Government in 2018, Dr. Sengeh was a Research Manager at IBM Research Africa, leading a healthcare team that designed and implemented AI-enabled systems for the
prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of disease.

Dr. Sengeh obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biomechatronics where he developed award-winning technology for human augmentation in designing comfortable prosthetic interfaces. 

He attained his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Sciences from Harvard College. Prior to university he attended the Red Cross Nordic United World College in Flekke, Norway and the Prince of Wales Secondary School in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Dr. Sengeh holds several patents and has published academic and popular articles across the fields of education, healthcare and augmentation, and artificial intelligence. He has spoken to audiences globally on topics related to digital governance,
education, youth innovation and inclusion, prosthetics design, the fourth industrial revolution and more.

His first book “Radical Inclusion”, was published by MacMillan as part of Melinda French Gates and Flatiron Books’ Moment of Lift Books in May 2023.

Outside of his work duties, Dr. Sengeh is a husband, father of three, afrobeat rapper, clothing designer and sports enthusiast.

Andreas Schleicher is Director for Education and Skills at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He initiated and oversees the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and other international instruments that have created a global platform for policy-makers, researchers and educators across nations and cultures to innovate and transform educational policies and practices.

He has worked for over 20 years with ministers and education leaders around the world to improve quality and equity in education. Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that Schleicher “understands the global issues and challenges as well as or better than anyone I’ve met, and he tells me the truth” (The Atlantic, July 11). Former UK Secretary of State Michael Gove called Schleicher “the most important man in English education” – even though he is German and lives in France.

Before joining the OECD, he was Director for Analysis at the International Association for Educational Achievement (IEA). He studied Physics in Germany and received a degree in Mathematics and Statistics in Australia. He is the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the “Theodor Heuss” prize, awarded in the name of the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany for “exemplary democratic engagement”. He holds an honorary Professorship at the University of Heidelberg.

Crain Soudien was educated in the fields of education and African Studies at the Universities of Cape Town, South Africa and the State University of New York at Buffalo. His PhD dissertation from Buffalo was on South African youth identity. He is a former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town, where he remains an emeritus professor in Education and African Studies and the former Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council. He has honorary professorial appointments at the Nelson Mandela University, the Cape University of Technology and has recently been appointed as the President of the Cornerstone Institute, a non-profit private university based in Cape Town, South Africa. His publications in the areas of social difference, culture, education policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture include four books, one co-authored book, six edited collections and over 250 articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters. He is currently working on six books, including a two-volume history of education in South Africa, the first of which is to appear in 2024, and a book on the ‘idea of race’. He has an A-rating in the South African research system. He is involved in a number of local, national and international social and cultural organisations and is chairperson of the Independent Examinations Board, a founder and former chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation, a former president of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, and has served as the chair of three South African Ministerial Committees of Enquiry, including the Ministerial Committee on Transformation in Higher Education and the Ministerial Committee to Evaluate Textbooks for Discrimination. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Education, the African Academy of Science, a Senior Fellow of NORRAG, Geneva Graduate Institute, a member of the Academy of Science of South African, a Chen Yidan Visiting Global Fellow at Harvard University, a former fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, the SARCHI Chair in Development Education, UNISA and the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research, University of Alberta in Canada. He serves on the boards of a number of cultural, heritage, education and civil society structures.