Meet Helen

Hello! My name is Dr Helen Hanna and I am an academic and trainer, originally from the UK.

My specialisms are education, migration, citizenship and human rights, as well as creative research methods and writing for publication. I am passionate about ensuring that all learners find a place in education where they can belong and thrive, and I believe being creative in the methods we use as researchers and educators can help. I am also committed to supporting early career researchers from across the world find their voice in writing for publication. I really enjoy working alongside early career researchers and teachers in both research and training, so that we can all learn from each other. I have conducted research in England, South Africa, Northern Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Canada and China. I have facilitated writing and research methods training in England, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand and China, to academics from diverse backgrounds and career stages. I am equally comfortable offering training online as I am face-to-face. 

If you are passionate about any - or all! - of these things, then I'd love to work with you, so do please get in touch.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Academic qualifications

▪ PhD Citizenship Education in Northern Ireland and Israel within an Education Rights Framework. School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast. September 2010 – July 2014.

▪ Master of Divinity (Theology) Pass with Merit, Queen’s University Belfast. February 2006 – December 2010.

▪ CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults), Belfast Metropolitan College. September 2008 – February 2009.

▪ Master of Arts (Honours) 2:1 French and Russian, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. September 2000 – July 2004.

▪ University of Leeds Teaching and Research Award, University of Leeds. December 2014 – December 2015. 

▪ Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. December 2015.

▪ Postgraduate Certificate of Higher Education, Leeds Trinity University. September 2016 – September 2017.

Teaching, training and consultancy

▪ Lecturer – Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. April 2022—Ongoing.

▪ Assistant Professor – Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Education University of Hong Kong. August 2020—February 2022.

▪ Associate Research Fellow – Institute for International and Comparative Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai. April 2019—July 2020.

▪ Director, Writing for Academic Publication. December 2018 – Current.

▪ Academic Consultant – Design and delivery of a programme for Early Career Researchers attending LDC-MLE Conference – British Council Thailand. March 2019 – March 2020.

▪ Visiting Researcher and Trainer in Writing for Publication – Division of Multicultural Education, Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University. January 2019 – ongoing.

▪ Trainer in Writing for Academic Publication – full competitive funding from the British Academy to design and deliver a two-day academic journal writing workshop for Chinese education scholars, at East China Normal University, Shanghai. December 2018.

▪ Lecturer (Assistant Professor) – Institute of Childhood and Education, Leeds Trinity University. September 2014—April 2019.

▪ English Language Teacher – Centre for Global Programmes, University of York. August 2014—August 2018 (summer only).

Professional Representation

▪ Associate Editor, Human Rights Education Review. 2021—ongoing.

▪ College of Reviewers member, Compare: Journal of International and Comparative Education. 2019—ongoing.

▪ International Development Peer Review College member, UK Research and Innovation. 2018—ongoing.

▪ Winston Churchill Fellow. 2017—ongoing.

▪ Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 2016—ongoing.

▪ Editorial Board/International Advisory Board member for the British Journal of Educational Studies. 2015—2022.

▪ Executive Committee member of the Society for Educational Studies. 2015—2019.

▪ Executive Committee member and Student Representative for the British Association for International and Comparative Education. 2012—2014.

▪ Member of British Association for International and Comparative Education. Current.

▪ Member of International Association of Intercultural Education. Current.

▪ Member of British Education Research Association. Current.

▪ Reviewer for British Education Research Journal, British Journal of Educational Studies, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, International Journal of Educational Development, Teaching and Teacher Education, Children’s Geographies, Literacy. Current.