Audrey Osler, Director of the Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education (CCHRE) and Research Professor (University of Leeds)

Audrey Osler is founding director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights Education. In 2007, she was Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, she was Professor of Education, sub-Dean and Director of Research in the Faculty of Education at the University of Leicester (1999-2004) and before that she was lecturer, then senior lecturer, at the University of Birmingham. Professor Osler holds an MA in History and Education from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Education from the University of Birmingham. She has acted as an expert for the Council of Europe and for the European Commission.

Professor Osler's research focuses on the socio-cultural contexts of learning and on education policy as it relates to questions of equity and human rights. She is currently co-authoring a book entitled 'Teachers and Human Rights Education' to be published by Trentham Books in 2009. Her current research focusses on childrens perspectives