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Amy Smail is a comparative educationist working across primary and secondary education, with a research focus on pedagogy, citizenship and decolonising history education. Most recently, at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, she led comparative case-study research in secondary schools in England as part of a three-year nationwide project, ‘A Portrait of the Teaching of the British Empire, Migration and Belonging’. Centring teachers’ voices, her wider scholarship includes exploring Ghanaian primary teachers’ understandings of decolonising citizenship through Pan-Africanism, and the role of Indigenous knowledges in Indian urban primary schools. With over twenty-five years’ experience across a range of educational contexts in the UK and internationally, Amy’s current interests focus on developing constructive and meaningful spaces for students and teachers to discuss identity, difference and belonging. She is also an evaluation specialist, working at the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Cambridge, to enhance inclusive education, and an independent consultant on embedding creative, participatory evaluative practices in primary schools. In addition, Amy is an advisory member of a UCL Nuffield-funded project, ‘Evaluating the Fundamental British Values initiative of the DfE’, and an Ordinary Member of the BAICE Executive Committee.