Josh Watters (PhD student)
Thesis title: Conflicting Cosmopolitanisms: British international schooling in post-colonial Thailand

PhD Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Contact details
- Email: j.e.t.watters@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
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.