Dr. Aizuddin M. Anuar is an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Future Education. As a scholar of comparative and international education, he is interested in various themes under the umbrella of education and inter/national development. Over the years, Aizuddin has engaged with traditional knowledges, education policy, the perspective of rural youth, non-state actors and generational memories within the family. Methodologically, his work spans ethnographic, participatory and creative approaches.

His first book, Postcolonial Education and Development in Peripheral Malaysia: Building Scentific 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 writings have been awarded Best Paper Prizes from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Special Interest Groups (2023, 2026). 

Aizuddin received his 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

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)

PG Transition (Co-teacher)

Previous teaching experience:

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

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