Carole Faucher

Dr. Carole Faucher is an anthropologist currently working at the University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and Sport. Her research primarily focuses on issues pertaining to social identity processes and emotional wellbeing of children and young people living in fragile settings and knowledge production in health and wellbeing education. She is an affiliated researcher with the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education and a member of the Advisory Board of the Nordic Center for Conflict Transformation. Over the past few years she has been acting as a co-convenor for the ECER Network 8 “Health and Wellbeing Education”. Before moving to Scotland, she has held faculty positions at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education in Kazakhstan, the University of Tsukuba in Japan, Mahidol University in Thailand and the National University of Singapore. She has also been visiting fellow at various institutions in Asia, North America, and Europe.

She has conducted extensive research in different parts of Southeast Asia and Central Asia. Her latest publications include: McLellan, R., Faucher, C., Simovska, V. (eds) (2022) Wellbeing and Schooling: Cross-cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives,London: Springer;Dagiev, D., Faucher. C (eds) (2019) Identity, History and Transnationality in Central Asia: the mountain communities of Pamir. London: Routldege, andFaucher, C. (2017) “Narratives of Schooling during the Tajik Civil War (1992-97)” pp. 145-160, in Ashraf, D., Tajik, A. and Niyozov, S. (eds) Educational Policies in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan: Contested Terrain in the Twenty-first Century. London. Lexington.