The articles below provide examples of current and recent research activities associated with CIE. Research takes a variety of forms including: Master’s capstone projects, doctoral dissertation research, faculty research, and research undertaken as part of funded development projects. CIE encourages the synergy which occurs when research applies conceptual and theoretical perspectives to the task of understanding real world problems.
The researchers and the topics reflect the diversity of issues being studied as well as the world-wide locations in which CIE carries out research. For a look at the past work of many other Master’s and Doctoral students, as well as research in multiple projects, visit the CIE site on UMass Scholarworks where all documents can be downloaded for free.
The Comparative and International Education Society (
the Comparative Education Review (CER) led by Bjorn Nordtveit for the past 10 years.
After 13 years Majid Khan (M.Ed. 2003; Doctorate 2009) has returned to CIE as a Visiting Scholar for the 2022/23 academic year. He will be working with the CIE Director, Ian Barron, on issues related to abuse prevention and trauma recovery in Pakistan.
ring 2022 Nangyalai Attal received a research grant from the 
The research explores additional funding sources and options for financing public universities in Afghanistan which are faced with exploding demand and limited government resources.
Nangyalai Attal has been awarded a visiting fellowship with the Echidna Global Scholars Program of the Brookings Institute
Each year the College of Education awards scholarships to students For the 2020-2021 academic year several CIE/IE students have received awards.
Pempho Chinkondenji was selected as a Research Associate by the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Her research focuses on issues related to school-girl pregnancy in Malawi.
This research uses a randomized control design to evaluate the impact of embedding psychosocial activities in the physical exercise curriculum of a youth club in a Rio de Janeiro favela.