Silje Sjøvaag Skeie

About

Silje Skeie is a PhD research fellow in Educational Sciences, where she is researching the inclusion of refugees into national education systems in host countries, in situations of temporary protection.

Skeie holds an M.Phil in education from the University of Oslo, and post-graduate education in early grade literacy in developing countries from the University of Massachusetts.

Skeie has more than 20 years of experience from international education, among others from UNESCO, Norwegian Refugee Council and Norad. She is specialised in education in emergencies, and she has managed and supported education programmes for internally displaced persons, refugees and host communities in several conflict-affected countries, with funding from among others EU, ECHO, UNHCR and Sida. She has experience from acute emergencies, protracted situations and recovery/post-conflict. Skeie has worked with education policies and standards for education in emergencies at global and local levels, and has been a member of several international committees and boards, including the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Steering Committee and the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) Steering group.

Skeie relies on her experience as a humanitarian practitoner in her research, and her research interests include:

Education in emergencies, crisis- and conflict contexts
Education and forced displacement (refugees and internally displaced populations)
The role of education in crisis situations and displacement
Inclusive education
Gender transformative education
Comparative and international education
Humanitarian aid, and humanitarian & development architecture.
Humanitarian - development - peace nexus