Institute of Education London

Dr Pat Pridmore

• Qualifications and position:
  • BSc, MSc, PhD, PGCE, R.Nutr, FHEA
  • Reader in Education, Health and International Development
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Policy and Society
• Department:
  • Humanities and Social Science
• Summary:
  • I am interested in participatory planning and cross-sectoral collaboration to increase health equity and educational equity in the context of low and middle income countries. This involves me in teaching, research and consultancy on (i) ways to reduce child undernutrition through addressing social determinants in urban slums (ii) the impact of health on educational access and attainment for children in disadvantaged settings (including remote multigrade schools and high HIV prevalence areas).
• Teaching:
  • Participatory planning and project management for health promotion in the context of international development.
• Research Projects:
  • Principal Investigator of the Health urbanisation Project funded by the ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme which aims to reduce child malnutrition in Kenya and Chile through addressing the social determinants of health.
    Principal Investigator of the SOFIE Project funded by the ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme which seeks to strengthening open and flexible learning for increased education access in high HIV areas of Lesotho and Malawi.
    Member of the Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE)
• Postgraduate Research:
  • I am interested in supervising post-graduate research in education, in health and in social development in low and middle income countries with reference to access, participation, governance and equity.
• Professional Activities:
  • Member of the ESRC College of Referees.
    Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
    Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Learner Diversity.
    Resource person to the European Preparatory Meeting for Bamako 2008 on Health for All.
    Resource Person to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for developing a guidance note on research for health and development.
    Invited participant at 'high level' meetings on nutrition organised by Save the Children in London and the European Commission in Brussels.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • 'Addressing the Underlying and Basic Causes of Child Undernutrition in Developing Countries: What Works and Why? Keynote address at the public meeting on Food, Nutrition and Gender organised by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen, April 2009.
    'Integrating indigenous pedagogy into teacher education for teachers of multigrade classes: issues, challenges and opportunities'. Keynote address at the International Conference on 'Indigenising the Curriculum: Opportunities and Challenges' in Sarawak November 2008.
    Opening up Access to Learning in High HIV Prevalence Areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the 5th Pan-Commonwealth Conference on Open and Flexible Learning in London, July 2008.
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • Vietnam, Sri-Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Finland, Spain, Greece, and a range of countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Teaching and Learning in Multigrade settings.
    South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and Lesotho: Open, distance and flexible learning in high HIV prevalence areas.
    Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Swaziland. Mexico, Vietnam: Children's participation in health development.
    Kenya: Evaluation of donor support to health sector development and to social development.
    Kenya, Chile: healthy urbanisation, malnutrition, social determinants of health. Burma: donor support to education programming.
    Global literature reviews in relation to nutrition programming and the impact of health on educational access.
• Languages Spoken:
  • English - mother tongue
    French - very basic
    Swahili - very basic
• Languages Written:
  • English - advanced - mother tongue
    French - very basic
    Swahili - very basic
• SIG Membership:
  • Education and International Development
• Research Students:
  • Catherine Moleni: Strengthening open and flexible models of schooling to Increasing access for vulnerable children in high HIV prevalence areas of Malawi. ( Bloomsbury Scholar)
    Liliana Dudau: The context in which women have multiple abortions in Romania.
    Richard Thomson: Public and private schooling in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.
    Natalia Streuli: Children's understanding of wellbeing in Peru.
    Mark la Prairie: Values education in Bhutan.
    Lucinda Ramos: Participatory assessment of "Eskola Foun" or Child Friendly Schools in Timor-Leste.
    Catherine O'Keeffe: Support groups for HIV positive health workers in Kenya.