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Kelsey Shanks is a Professor of Education in Conflict at Ulster University where she holds both the UNESCO Chair in Education for Peacebuilding and Human Rights and the British Academy Bilateral Chair in Education in Conflict and Crisis (in partnership with Koya University, Iraq). Her research examines education’s role in conflict affected societies – focusing on postconflict stabilisation, peacebuilding, and the political and ideological use of education – with extensive fieldwork in Iraq and projects across Central Asia, Africa, Ukraine and Syria. She leads international research initiatives, including the Education, Peace and Politics Project (EPP) and the Iraqi Schools Project. Kelsey earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Exeter. Her career includes fellowships at York’s Postwar Reconstruction and Development Unit and Exeter’s Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies. She is the author of Education and Ethno Politics: Defending Identity in Iraq (Routledge, 2015) and numerous chapters and peer reviewed articles.