4.2 Education in Emergencies

Jessica Oddy is an education in emergencies specialist and a PhD candidate at the University of East London's Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging, where she's also a lecturer as part of an Open Learning Initiative Higher Education preparation course for asylum seekers and refugees. Her current research focuses on diverse young people's experiences of education in emergencies, colonial legacies, and how race power and privilege intersect with humanitarian education responses. She has worked with organizations such as Oxfam, War Child UK, Save the Children, Lutheran World Federation, and others. 

We speak about:

• education as a protection issue
• racism in the aid sector
• the politics of knowledge production 
• the demand for programming for adolescents in education in emergencies 
• the narrative of educability
• her PhD journey & action research  
• equity based design  - and much more!

She joins us from London, UK.