Joan DeJaeghere, associate professor in the Department of Organizational, Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), was invited to participate in a review panel December 3, 2015, for the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DfID)’s call for Raising Learning Outcomes in Education. The panel reviewed 22 grant proposals for the specific call of “challenging contexts” focusing on remote rural, urban slums and border cities.