NESET experts
Sevda Bekman
Professor of Education, Department of Primary Education, Boğaziçi University
Turkey
Research Area:early childhood intervention, investigating the effectiveness of home and center-based early childhood education programs that target children in poverty.
Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Professor of Sociology, Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS), European University Institute
Italy
Research Area: Life Course Research, Educational Sociology, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Labour Markets, Stratification, Class, and Mobility; Statistical Methods (in particular Event History Analysis and Panel Analysis); Cross-National Comparative Research; Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods.
Affiliations: Hans-Peter Blossfeld holds the Chair of Sociology I at Bamberg University and is the Director of the Institute of Longitudinal Studies in Education (Institut für bildungswissenschaftliche Längsschnittstudien – INBIL), the Principal Investigator of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), and the Director of the State Institute for Family Research at Bamberg University (Staatsinstitut für Familienforschung an der Universität Bamberg - ifb).
Gerhard Bosch
Professor of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany
Research area:pay and employment trends in Germany and comparisons with other OECD countries. Specialist themes include low-wage work, minimum wages, working time and training issues
Affiliations: Director of the Institute for Work, Skills and Training (IAQ)
Pepka Boyadjieva
Professor at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge and member of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgaria
Research area: Sociology of higher education; Education, science and modernization; Different models of relationships between university and society; Lifelong learning
Affiliations: Pepka Boyadjieva is professor at the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge and member of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She is also Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Nottingham and Academic Associate at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia. Boyadjieva has been lecturing at the University of Sofia and the NBU. She is editorial correspondent of the Journal of Lifelong Education and member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Social Science Education. In 2007 Boyadjieva was selected for Fulbright’s New Century Scholar Program on higher education in the 21st c.
Mark Bray
UNESCO Chair Professor in Comparative Education, The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Website: http://web.edu.hku.hk/academic_staff.php?staffId=mbray
Research Area: Planning of education; issues of equity, costs and financing
Simon Burgess
Professor of Economics University of Bristol
England
Research Area:Research within an economics framework on poverty, unemployment, education, incentives in the public sector, and local area effects. Labour economics and poverty. Currently working on: an economic model of poverty dynamics, empirical models of incentives in organisations, the role of markets in education and health, unemployment and gross job and worker flows. Also working on spatial issues in labour markets.
John Bynner
Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences in Education, Institute of Education, University of London
England, UK
Website: www.slls.org.uk
Research Area: Longitudinal and Life course Studies
Affiliations: Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS), Royal Statistics Society (RSS), British Educational Research Association (BERA), Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Longview Trustee. Executive Editor Longitudinal and Life course Studies International Journal
Claire Callender
Professor of Higher Education Policy, Birkbeck, University of London and Professor of Higher Education Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
England, UK
Research Area: Higher Education Policy, student funding and finances, part-time students
Affiliations: Academy of Social Sciences, Society for Research into Higher Education, Social Policy Association
Giovanna Campani
Professor of Intercultural Pedagogy, Department of Education, University of Florence
Italy
Research Area: Intercultural education and educational systems, international migration, ethnic relations and gender issues
Affiliations:Scientific Coordinator of the D.G. Research-Project, Minority Languages and Ethnic Mobilisation. Participated in the DAPHNE Project MinorMig-Unaccompanied Minor Migrants as Vulnerable Group (1999-2001). Worked extensively in the field of women and immigration, participating, among others, in the The European Union Against Racism Project: MultiDis – Multilevel Discrimination of Muslim Women in Europe (2000).
Miranda Christou
Assistant Professor in Sociology of Education Department of Education, University of Cyprus
Cyprus
Research Area:role of educational systems in shaping questions of history and collective memory, the pedagogical function of the media in representations of human pain and suffering and the cultural implications of globalized educational systems
Mary Darmanin
Associate Professor at Department of Education Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Malta
Malta
Research Areas:Research on ICT and higher education policy-making. Gender issues in education and women in the labour market.
Marc Demeuse
Professor at the Department of Psychology and Educational Science Université de Mons-Hainaut
Belgium
Research Areas:Educational policies, assessment, teacher training, science education
Paul Downes
Director, Educational Disadvantage Centre, Senior Lecturer in Education (Psychology), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University
Ireland
Website: www.spd.dcu.ie/main/academic/edc/Dr.PaulDownes.shtml
Research Area: Educational Disadvantage, Early School Leaving, Access to Education, Lifelong learning, Multidisciplinary teams, Minorities' Education, Drug Prevention
Affiliations: Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (2011); Advisor, Access initiative study, University of Malta, Euro Centre for Educational Resilience and Socio-Emotional Health (2011-2012); Member of Board of Directors, Ana Liffey Drug Project (2002-2012) and Tolka Area Partnership (2010-2012)
Jaap Dronkers
Professor of Educational Performance and Social Inequality, Maastricht University
Netherlands
Research Areas: causes and consequences of unequal educational and occupational attainment, changes in educational opportunities, effect-differences between public and religious schools, the educational and occupational achievement of migrants from different origins and in various countries of destination, the linkages between school and the labour market, the effects of parental divorce on children, cross-national differences in causes of divorce, education of Dutch elites, and European nobility
Marie Duru-Bellat
Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris
France
Research interests:educational policy and social and sexual inequality in the school system in France and in Europe. Perception and the legitimization of inequality in France and throughout the world.
Anne Edwards
Director, Department of Education, University of Oxford
England, UK
Research interests: inter-professional collaboration; social inclusion of children, young people and families; the role of schools and schooling in preventing exclusion; and individual learning and organisational change.
Ramon Flecha
Full University Professor, University of Barcelona, Department of Sociological Theory, Philosophy of Law and Methodology of the Social Sciences
Spain
Web-site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Flecha
Research interests: analyses of educational strategies that contribute to overcome inequalities and promote social cohesion and educational strategies that generate social exclusion, particularly focusing on vulnerable and marginalised groups; real alternatives to the capitalist economy
Some affiliations: Doctor Honoris Causa in 2007 by the University of Vest Timisoara. Expert in the Committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities Area of the 7th Framework Proramme of research from the European Union nominated by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation; Member of the Editorial Board of the REIS (Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas), [ISI-JCR, Q4]
Daniel Frandji
Maître de conférences en sociologie. Ecole Normale supérieur de Lyon (ENS de Lyon), French Institut of Education (IFE), Laboratoire Triangle.
France
Website: http://triangle.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?article1888
Research interests sociology of education, sociology of knowledge, school inequalities processes, educational policies
Georges Felouzis
Professor of Sociology of Education Policy at the University of Geneva
Switzerland
Research interests: the evaluation of educational policies, ethnic segregation in schools and its impact on educational inequality, student pathways in universities
Guadalupe Francia
Associated Professor, Department of Education, Uppsala University
Sweden
Research interests: Equity in relation to Equality Standards and Assessment claims; Free Choice and Diversity; Social and Cultural Justice and Intertextuality in the analysis of Education Policies and Reforms
Gábor Halász
Head of Centre for Higher Education Management, ELTE University Budapest, Faculty of Education and Psychology.
Hungary
Website: http://halaszg.ofi.hu
Research Area: Education policy; governance of education; comparative education; higher education; EU integration and education
Francesca Gobbo
Professor of Intercultural Education at University of Turin
Italy
Research Area:contemporary educational issues from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective that combines educational theory with methodological and theoretical approaches from the fields of cultural anthropology and anthropology of education. cultural and social changes obtaining in complex societies (particularly in the North America and in European countries) and in their schools
Stephen Gorard
Professor of Education Research, School of Education, University of Birmingham,
England, UK
Research Area: Stephen Gorard is an international expert in five main areas of education as a lifelong and society-wide process. These are the nature of school intakes, attainment at school, wider school outcomes, post-compulsory participation in learning of all kinds, and the methods of social science investigation. In each area, his main concern is with describing and overcoming inequality. His central approach is laying bare and understanding inequality, in a political arithmetic tradition of the sociology of education. However, he conducts studies using any design and method, as appropriate, from rapid evidence syntheses to the evaluation of complex interventions. He has published widely, with around 20 books and hundreds of papers, is regularly asked to give advice to governments, and his research is frequently covered by the media.
Affiliations: Member of AERA and BERA, elected academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, principal methods expert for Institute of Education Science, member of ESSRC Grants panel.
David Greger
Senior Researcher at Faculty of Education, Charles University, Prague
Czech Republic
Research Areas:Comparative education, particularly in the characteristics of education systems and policy interventions that may reduce achievements gaps.
Friedrich Heckmann
Director of the European forum for migrations studies (efms), Institute at the University of Bamberg
Germany
Website: http://efms.de
Research Areas: Migration, Integration, Evaluation, Sociology of education
Affiliations: German Society of Sociology, IMISCOE
Inger Hojer
Professor in Social work, Departmen of Social Work, University of Gothenburg
Sweden
Research Areas: Children and families. Child welfare. Foster care. Young people leaving care.
Affiliations:Member of the research program Parenting and Childhood in Modern Family Cultures, led by professor Margareta Bäck-Wiklund.Collaboration with Thomas Coram Research Unit in London (see the YIPPEE project).Member of the International Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC), led by professor Harriet Ward, Loughborough University, and professor Mike Stein, York University. The networks includes researchers from 16 different countries.Collaboration with researchers from East Anglia University, UK (professor Gillian Schofield) and Barnevernets Forskningssenter i Bergen (Toril Havik and Bente Moldestad)
Sjoerd Karsten
University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
The Netherlands
Research: Governance of educational Trajectories in Europe (7th EU Framework), Schools working conditions (in cooperation with Universities of Leuven, Birmingham, Kingston, Stockholm, Marburg, Acores, Oslo & Helsinki), School choice and civic values (Brookings Institution and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA), Vocational training for mentally handicapped (16-25 years olds) in Europe (Leonardo-project), Citizenship Education in the 21st Century II: Future Teachers (Universities of Minnesota, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Taipe, Singapore and Hong Kong), Citizenship Education in the 21st Century I (Sasakawa foundation, Tokyo), Vocational training in underdeveloped regions (EU-project) , Faith-based schools compared (Spencer foundation, USA), The transition from school to work (EU-project), Public accountability in Europe (Dutch Education Council) , Teacher training in Europe (Ministry of Education), National projects: About 25 projects financed by several institutions (ministries, local authorities), subjects like vocational education, labour market integration, school segregation, and the policies for disadvantaged and migrant youth
Some relevant publications: Karsten, S. (2010). School segregation. In OECD (eds), Equal opportunities. Children of Immigrants in the Labour Markets of OECD. Paris: OECD
Karsten, S., Felix, C., Ledoux, G., Meijnen, G. W., Roeleveld, J., & Van Schooten, E. (2005). Choosing segregation or integration? The extent and effects of ethnic segregation in Dutch cities. Education and Urban Society, 36,228-247.
Karsten, S. (2006). Policy for disadvantaged children under scrutiny: the Dutch policy compared with policies in England, France and the USA. Comparative Education, 42(2), 261-282.
Ondrej Kascak
Chairman of the Department of Preschool and Primary Education, Faculty of Education, Trnava University. Senior research fellow at Centre for Research in Education at Institute for Research in Social Communication of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.
Slovakia
Website: http://trunipdf.academia.edu/OndrejKa%C5%A1%C4%8D%C3%A1k/About
Research interests: education policy, education and ideology, education and neoliberalism, governmental studies in education, Foucault and education, sociology of childhood, school ethnography
Ewart Keep
Cardiff University
Wales
Marta Korintus
Director of Research, National Institute for Family and Social Policy (Nemzeti Csalad- es Szocialpolitikai Intezet)
Hungary
Research Area: She participated in the OECD Thematic Review of Early Childhood Education and Care, and she was the Hungarian coordinator of EU funded, cross-national research projects, such as Care Work in Europe, which looked at the situation of care workers in some European countries; and YIPPEE, which studied the educational pathways of young people with a care background. In 2010; she was key expert on the ECEC sector for Bernard Brunhes International contracted by the European Commission Directorate- General Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities for the ‘Study on Social Services of General Interest.” She is the editor of the Hungarian edition of the magazine Children in Europe, and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Childcare and Education Policy. Her present interests are: services for young children, leave policies, and balancing work and family life.
Marek Kwiek
Director, Center for Public Policy Studies, Poznan University, Poznan,
Poland
Research Area: higher education research and policy, university governance, academic entreprenurialism, equity and access, higher edcuation legislation, academic profession studies
Affiliations: Editorial Board member, "Higher Education Quarterly" and "European Educational Research Journal"; general editor of the book series, "Higher Education Research and Policy" (Peter Lang).
Judit Lannert
Managing director, Tárki-Tudok Inc. Centre for Knowledge Management and Educational Research Inc
Hungary
Research Areas:empirical (both quantitative and qualitative) research in the field of school effectiveness, that of students progress and career aspirations and the transition process from school to work.
website: www.tarki-tudok.hu
Ben Levin
Professor and Canada Research Chair Theory and Policy Studies, OISE, University of Toronto
Canada
Main research project website: www.oise.utoronto.ca/rspe
Research interests: connecting research to policy and practice, poverty and equity issues, large scale improvement, secondary school improvement, effective use of resources
Trisha Maynard
Canterbury Christ Church University
England
Sandra McNally
London School of Economics, University of London
England
Nikos Paizis
Scientific Consultant, Centre for the Development of Education Policy (KANEP/GSEE)
Greece
Research interests: Educational Policy, Education and Culture initiatives, Arts in Primary Education. Scientific Director and co-author of the “Annual Reports on Education” (KANEP/GSEE 2010 and 2011) which highlights the basic quantitative figures of Greek education system .
Marcelo Parreira do Amaral
Associate Researcher, University of Frankfurt, Department of Education, Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Main Project Website: www.goete.eu ‘Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe (GOETE). Access, coping and relevance of education for young people in European knowledge societies in comparative perspective’
Research Interests: International comparative education, education policy, international educational governance and its implications for educational trajectories, in particular issues of access to and equity in education
Sally Power
Professorial Fellow at the School of Social Sciences Cardiff University
Wales
Website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/M-P/profe...
Research Interests : focused on the relationship between education and inequality, and particularly social class differentiation, as well as the relative success and failure of education policies designed to promote greater equality of opportunity. Extensive experience of research on the sociology of education and education policy, Sociology of education in general, Education and social class, Sociology of education policy, Sociology of the curriculum.
Co-Editor of the BSA journal Sociology and Chair of the British Educational Research Association’s Academic Publications Committee. Scientific Co-ordinator of NESET.
Cveta Pucko
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Sheila Riddell
Director, Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity, University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, UK
Website: www.creid.ed.ac.uk
Research interests: Sheila Riddell is Director of the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Edinburgh and was previously Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Disabiltiy Research at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests are in the broad area of equality and social inclusion with particular referernce to gender, disability and social class in the fields of education, training, employment and social care. Sheila is currently working on projects exploring lifelong learning and special education policy and practice across Europe.
Jean-Yves Rochex
Université Paris 8
France
Mitja Sardoc
Educational Research Institute, Ljubliana
Slovenia
Terri Seddon
Monash University
Australia
Emer Smyth
Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute,
Ireland
Research Area: School organisation and process; educational inequality; gender; longitudinal research; school to work transitions
Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, Trinity College Dublin; co-editor, Irish Educational Studies; committee member of the European Network on Transitions in Youth
Amy Stuart Wells
Professor, Sociology and Education Teachers College, Columbia University
USA
Ronald G. Sultana
Director, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research (EMCER), University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta; Founding Editor of the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies: http://www.um.edu.mt/emcer/mjes
Malta
Website: http://www.um.edu.mt/emcer
Research Areas: comparative education; education in the Mediterranean region; transition from school to work; career guidance; educational innovation; teacher education – List of publications at http://www.um.edu.mt/emcer/publications
Affiliations: University of Malta
Chris Taylor
Reader at Cardiff University
Wales
Website:http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/contactsandpeople/academicstaff/T-Z/dr-ch...
Research Interests
- The geography of education
- Education and neighbourhoods
- School choice and diversity
- Social justice and education policy
- Participation in Higher and Further Education
- Inter-disciplinary research methods
- Combining qualitative and quantitative research methods
- Research capacity building
Panos Tsakloglou
Athens University of Economics and Business
Greece
Research Area: Research focuses on questions of inequality, poverty, social exclusion, education economics (particularly private and social returns to education) and social policy (especially, the redistributive role of the state).
He has published over eighty articles in scholarly journals and contributions to collective volumes, participated in a large number of conferences and workshops and has been a partner in over forty international and national research and consultancy projects. He is Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn) and Senior Research Fellow of the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics as well as a member of the Editorial Boards of the Review of Income and Wealth and the Journal of Economic Inequality.
Agnes van Zanten
Sciences Po
France
Richard Vaughan Teese
University of Melbourne
Australia
Dylan Wiliam
Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, Institute of Education, University of London,
England, UK
Research Area: educational assessment and measurement, teacher professional development, mathematics education
Affiliations: Academy of Social Sciences (academician),American Educational Research Association (member), American Psychological Association (member), Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (member), British Psychological Society (member), International Testing Commission (member), National Council on Measurement and Education (member), Phi Delta Kappan (member), Royal Society of Arts (Fellow)
Andreas Walther
University of Frankfurt am Main, Department of Education, Institute of Social Pedagogy and Adult Education
Germany
Website: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/fb/fb04/personen/awalther.html
Research interests: Youth research, transitions in the life course, child and youth welfare while a special interest are international comparative analysis in social pedagogy and youth transitions.
Affiliations: Coordinator of the European research network EGRIS (European Group for Integrated Social Research); Member of the editorial board of the journals DISKURS Kindheits- und Jugendforschung and COMUNITANIA.
Geoff Whitty
Professor of Public Sector Policy and Management, University of Bath
England, UK
Research Area: Education policy, sociology of education, curriculum
Affiliations: Director Emeritus, Institute of Education, University of London
