Cyril Brandt

Biographic Data

ID4172282
NAMECyril Brandt
GIVEN NAMESCyril
FAMILY NAMEBrandt
SIGNATUREBRANDT C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Antwerp
ORCID0000-0003-4346-0210
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Violence Against Teachers and the Entanglement of Schools in Violent Conflict in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Gauthier Marchais, Diego de la Fuente Stevens et al.ARTICLEComparative Education Review2025

    Violence against teachers in conflict-affected regions has devastating consequences on their well-being and work, yet there is limited research on its drivers. In this article, we carry out a mixed-methods analysis of the causes of violence against teachers in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), leveraging a longitudinal survey of 932 teachers in 55 schools and 211 qualitative interviews. We find that 43.3 percent of teachers in t…

  • Researching Teacher Well-Being in Protracted Crises: A Multiscalar Cultural Political Economy Perspective

    Cyril Owen Brandt, Cyril Brandt et al.ARTICLEComparative Education Review2023

    Research on teacher well-being that works from a localized socioeconomic perspective tends to neglect the nestedness of teacher well-being within wider systems. Randomized controlled trials are illustrative of such decontextualized ontological and epistemological foundations. In this article, we demonstrate the benefits of a system dynamics cultural political economy–informed analysis for research on teacher well-being in protracted crises. Zoomi…

  • The multiple faces of ‘conscientisation’: Exploring links between structural inequalities, education and violence

    Cyril Brandt, Olga Kithumbu et al.ARTICLEGlobalisation Societies and…2022Cited by: 2References: 17

    Education can instil conscientisation and stimulate action against injustice. The Batwa (‘pygmy’) people in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been severely marginalised. In 2012–2013, violent conflict broke out in Tanganyika, pitting Batwa against dominant groups. Our qualitative interviews evoked a causal relationship between conscientisation – via non-formal human rights education – and violence. Our article dispels this idea. Yet, …

  • Just keep silent’. Teaching under the control of authoritarian governments: A qualitative study of government schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Open AccessAnnika Weigele, Cyril BrandtARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021References: 19

  • Bildung für Binnenvertriebene? Über die (statistische) Vernachlässigung einer bedeutenden Gruppe

    Open AccessCyril BrandtARTICLEZEP – Zeitschrift für international…2020

    Bewaffnete Konflikte führen zu Vertreibung einer großen Anzahl von Menschen.Die Sicherstellung von Bildungsmöglichkeiten in humanitären Notsituationen und für flüchtende Menschen hat in den letzten Jahren große Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.Dabei wurde eine spezifische Gruppe vernachlässigt: Binnenvertriebene.Dieser Artikel zeigt

  • Reshaping the reach of the state: The politics of teacher payment reform in the DR Congo

    Open AccessCyril Owen Brandt, Cyril Brandt et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Modern African…2020References: 21

    We analyse the politics of the reform of teacher payment modalities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in light of the uneven territorial reach of the DRC state. The reform focused on extending this reach by paying all teachers via a bank account, replacing long-standing shared governance arrangements between state and faith-based organisations with a public-private partnership. By using qualitative and quantitative data, we map the politi…

  • Social norms of corruption in the field: Social nudges on posters can help to reduce bribery

    Open AccessNils Köbis, Marleen Troost et al.ARTICLEBehavioural Public Policy2019Cited by: 18References: 11

    Corruption in the form of bribery continues to be a major societal challenge around the world. The current lab-in-the-field study tested whether dynamic descriptive norms messages on posters can help to reduce bribery. Before, during and after placing posters throughout a medium-sized South African town, incentivized measures of social norms and bribery were assessed in a mobile lab. A total of 311 participants stemming from the general populatio…

  • Reluctant representatives of the state: Teachers’ perceptions of experienced violence (DR Congo)

    Cyril BrandtARTICLECompare A Journal of Comparative…2019Cited by: 1References: 12

    My qualitative research in South-Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo suggests that teachers link experienced violence to their role as state representatives. Three elements evoke the militia’s distrust: literacy, cell phones, and mobility. Reportedly, militias assume that teachers use these elements to cooperate with the military. This article therefore understands these elements as symbols of stateness, and it demonstrates how a state with over…

  • The deployment of internally displaced teachers (DR Congo): A “real governance” approach

    Open AccessCyril BrandtARTICLEInternational Journal of…2018Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Ambivalent outcomes of statebuilding: Multiplication of brokers and educational expansion in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2004–13)

    Cyril Owen Brandt, Cyril BrandtARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2017Cited by: 4References: 14

    This empirical article explores how the interaction between two key aspects of statebuilding (democratisation and decentralisation) and existing forms of governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo led to a multiplication in numbers of political and administrative brokers. Furthermore, it investigates how these brokers construct their roles well beyond official mandates. Responding to local demands, they circumvent formal procedures in order t…