Daniel Shephard is a Lecturer in Comparative Education and Education Policy within the Institute for Education, Community and Society at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on questions of educational inclusion of forced migrants (refugees and IDPs) and the international data regime for education. His disciplinary orientation is at the intersection of comparative education, sociology, and international development. His current research projects are investigating different school models of refugee inclusion through the use of dynamic social network analysis and longitudinal mixed-methods; the financing of refugee education inclusion through a comparative case study; and a life-course study of migrant families experiences of becoming classified as refugees.
Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, Daniel was the Postdoctoral Fellow in International Sustainable Development at Indiana University, Bloomington where he held dual affiliations with the Tobias Center for Innovation in International Development and the Center for the Study of Global Change. His other previous positions have included Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School for International Training Graduate Institute, Associate Fellow at the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (2015-2016), and Senior Manager of Research and Education at Aflatoun International. Daniel has over ten years of experience in applied international education research in 30 countries and has worked as a research consultant for numerous international and local NGOs, United Nations agencies, and other international organizations such as the OECD and the World Bank. He also has experience as a teacher in South Korea and Thailand.