Josh Watters (PhD student)

Thesis title: Conflicting Cosmopolitanisms: British international schooling in post-colonial Thailand

Background

My doctoral research sits most comfortably within the sociology of education and looks at British schooling in Southeast Asia (particularly Thailand). I am interested in the proliferation of British international schools throughout the region and how it fits into a historical and global context.

I am a part-time doctoral student, completing my research alongside my work in teaching. I am in my sixteenth year of teaching and my career has taken me through a range of roles both in England and overseas.

Qualifications

MA, UCL Institute of Education

PGCE, University of Cambridge

GRNCM, Royal Northern College of Music 

MusB (Hons), University of Manchester

 

Research summary

  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Legacies of colonialism

 

Conference details

Watters, J. (2024). Becoming ‘siwilai’: British international schooling in post-colonial Thailand. BAICE Conference 2024, Brighton, UK.