Dr. Aizuddin M. Anuar is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Future Education. His scholarship in comparative and international education is concerned with the relationship between education, (post)colonialism and sustainable development. Over the years, Aizuddin has studied this relationship through engagement with traditional knowledges, education policy, rural youth, non-state actors and generational memories within the family. Methodologically, he employs ethnographic, participatory and creative approaches.

In 2026, Aizuddin received the Newer Researcher Award from the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE). His first book, Postcolonial Education and Development in Peripheral Malaysia: Building Scientific Aspirations is forthcoming in September 2026, from Bristol University Press. 

Aizuddin’s work has appeared in academic journals such as Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Comparative Education Review, Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives and Asia Pacific Journal of Education alongside a number of edited collections including the twin volumes of Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory / Method in Comparative and International Education. His collaborative writings have been awarded Best Paper Prizes from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Special Interest Groups (2023, 2026). 

Aizuddin obtained a DPhil in Education from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar and Doctoral Teaching Fellow. Prior to academia, he worked in the corporate philanthropy sector, focusing on education projects in his home country of Malaysia. Collectively, these interests and experiences greatly inform his teaching which draws on the ethos of critical pedagogy.

Research collaboration and doctoral supervision welcomed in the following areas:

• Comparative studies in education
• Education for sustainable development
• Postcolonial and decolonial studies
• Informal education
• Geographies of education
• Anthropology of education
• Critical pedagogy
• Cultural politics of knowledge production

2025-Present: Assistant Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

2022-2025: Lecturer in Education, Keele University

2020-2022: Doctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Oxford

2011-2017: Executive, PETRONAS

EDS443: Educational Research: Theory and Practice

EDS403: Principles, Policies and Practices in Global Education (Co-teacher)

Previous teaching experience:

XJTLU:

PGR 413: Ethnography in Educational Research

EDS 426: Monitoring and Evaluation In Educational Systems and Organizations

EDS 401: Globalisation and Education - Critical Perspectives (Co-teacher)

EDS 446: Advanced Educational Research Studies (Co-teacher)

PG Transition (Co-teacher)

Keele University: Module leader: Understanding Learning, Inclusive Education, Global Education Issues, International Comparative Education, Educational Developments around the World.

Co-teacher: History Beyond the Classroom, Preparing and Presenting a Thesis Proposal, Independent Research Project, Dissertation.

Academic Lead for Ethnography, Methods North West.

University of Oxford: Co-teacher: Foundations of Education Research

Newer Researcher Award, Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), 2026

Writing Fellowship, Ecoversities Alliance, 2026

Best Paper Award (with Olga Mun and Gulzhanat Gafu), Europe and Central Asia SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 2026

Best Paper Award (with Pravindharan Balakrishnan), Post-foundational Approaches SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), 2023

Flux Fellowship, FreshEd Podcast, 2021-2022

Doctoral Teaching Fellowship, University of Oxford, 2020-2022

Student Fieldwork Grant, British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE), 2019

Clarendon and New College Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2018-2022