Dr Emel Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Education, Children and Young People at the University of Northampton. She obtained her Doctorate in Education at the University of Cambridge in 2013.
She has written and presented papers for various international conferences on education and migration. Emel received her MSc in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford in 2008. Prior to this, she taught in a variety of schools in England and has also conducted research for charities that support disengaged young people.
Her main teaching and research interests include migration, identity, race, intercultural teaching and learning, and education in small states. Other interests include the marketisation of Higher Education in a global context. Her most recent edited publication is entitled Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles (2014). She has also recently contributed to Commonwealth Secretariat Education Partnerships publication 2015/6.