- Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Canberra
Dr. Will Brehm is an Associate Professor in Comparative and International Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra. He is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan).
His research interrogates how comparative and international education intersects with international relations and the political economy of development, focused primarily on the Mekong sub-region of Southeast Asia. In his research, he has explored issues of educational privatisation, regional identity making, community-based education, and the politics of knowledge production.
He is author of Cambodia for Sale (Routledge 2021) and co-editor of Public Policy Innovation for Human Capital Development (APO 2020), Memory in the Mekong (Teachers College Press 2022), and Education and Power in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2023). He is also the founder and host of FreshEd, a podcast focused on new research in education.
Experience
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2023–presentAssociate professor, University of Canberra
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2019–2023Associate professor, University College London
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2017–2019Assistant Professor, Waseda University
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2015–2017Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Tokyo
Education
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2015The University of Hong Kong, PhD
