Paul Stanistreet

(PhD) is Head of Knowledge Management and Communications at the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and Executive Editor of the International Review of Education (IRE), the longest-running international journal of comparative education in the world. He joined UIL in 2016 and has edited IRE since 2019, overseeing a substantial increase in the journal’s readership and citation rate.
He is part of the core team responsible for UIL’s flagship Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE) and has led on the production of the previous two reports (GRALE 4 and GRALE 5).

From the Editorial team

EDITORIAL Paul Stanistreet: “We need resilient communities, not just resilient workers”

Current adult education policies focus on individual labour market resilience, often overlooking wider societal responsibilities. In this editorial, ELM Editorial Board member Paul Stanistreet calls for a shift towards collective resilience that supports democratic problem-solving.

04.05.2026 Paul Stanistreet