Viva Success for Dr Ian Wash

Congratulations to School of Politics and International Relations doctoral researcher Ian Wash on passing his recent viva with minor corrections. 

Ian's thesis 'Conceptualising the Liberal Ideal: The Discursive Construction of Education in the Promotion of International Development 2000 – 2020' makes the case for a liberal theory of international education and demonstrates that the assumed harmony and functionality of this model was the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development between 2000 and 2020. It reveals how the liberal education model was discursively constructed as a grand narrative and explains that such a rendering brings an understanding of the hidden conflicts essential for finding a resolution to this policy puzzle.

His thesis was examined by Dr Ben Holland and Professor Johannes Angermuller (Open University).