ISS Senior Lecturer Roy Huijsmans co-winner of research grant into educational aspirations in rural areas
The research aims to provide insight into how education systems can develop effective polices and interventions that work with young people's aspirations to enhance learning outcomes and address structural disadvantage in remote rural places of India, Laos and Lesotho.
The grant includes an 18-month research position for the Laos based part of the project, to be hired by ISS.
Grant details
The grant was awarded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council.
More details of the research to be funded by this grant and the researchers involved is available on the Research Councils UK's website.
