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Laura C. Engel

University of Nottingham

Laura C. Engel is a research fellow and member of the UNESCO Centre for Comparative Education Research in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, England. Laura earned her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies with a specialization in Comparative Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her doctoral thesis, entitled: Rescaling the State: The Politics of Educational Decentralization in Catalonia, examined contemporary policy-making processes in Catalonia, in relation to simultaneous pressures of European integration, and fragmentation in the case of devolution in Spain.

Relevant publications:

McCarthy, C.; Durham, A. S.; Engel L. C.; Filmer, A. A.; Giardina, M. D. (eds.). 2007. Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy. New York: Peter Lang

Rizvi, F.; Engel, L.; Rutkowski, D.; Sparks, J. (2007). Equality and the politics of globalization in education. In Verma, G., Jha, M. & Bagley, C. (Eds.) Inclusive education: International perspectives. London: Routlege.