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CEID launches with Keynote lecture by Professor Amartya Sen
By CEID Admin, on 19 June 2017
The Centre for Education and International Development launch at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), June 15th 2017
Scholarship and practice in education and international development has taken place at the IOE for over 90 years. On June 15th 2017, the newest phase of this work 
commenced with the launch of the Centre for Education and International Development (CEID).
Comprising a team of globally recognised experts in development, education, and international educational policy, CEID is the largest community of education and international development scholars, students and alumni in the UK. Through its research, teaching and practice it investigates education and international development with particular foci on the contribution of education to social justice and equalities; peacebuilding and conflict; health and wellbeing; migrations; poverty; and gender and women’s empowerment.
The CEID launch represented a key event for the IOE. It began with an all-day Symposium, attended by over 250 delegates, with more than 40 presentations by academics, as well as speakers from NGOs, government, think tanks and charities across CEID’s five thematic research areas. Bringing to the fore the importance of intersectoral and collaborative research, the Symposium’s sessions showcased the theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous and critically reflexive work undertaken at the Centre.
The Symposium was followed by a keynote lecture entitled ‘What’s the use of education?’ given by Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize winner and Professor o
f economics and philosophy at Harvard University. Attended by over 750 guests, and live streamed globally, Professor Sen’s keynote address received a standing ovation and concluded with a lively and extended Q & A session with the audience in the Logan Hall.
As a leader in research and teaching excellence in education and international development, CEID is excited to develop its work further, and looks forward to welcoming partners, students and alumni to future events, including our exciting seminar series, alumni events and the CEID annual conference on Higher Education and International Development on June 19th 2018.
For more information about 
CEID please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe-ceid
You can contact the Centre at ceid@ucl.ac.uk and follow on Twitter @CEID_IOE
