Keynote Speakers

Katja Brøgger is Associate Professor of education policy and governance at Aarhus University and director of the Policy Futures research program. She serves as Chair and PI of the EU COST Action CA22121 (OPEN) (Horizon Europe), and is PI of two international comparative projects...

"The New Geopolitics of Academic Freedom: Appropriation, Co-optation, and the Reordering of Knowledge in European Higher Education"

Radhika Gorur is Professor of Education at Deakin University, Australia. She is interested in the social and political lives of data and in how policies get mobilised, stabilised, circulated and challenged.

"Beyond Impact: Responsible Knowing and Acting in Education Research"

Sotiria Grek is Professor of Science, Knowledge and Public Policy at Urban Studies and Social Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Sotiria’s work focuses on the fields of quantification and expertise in global public policy, with a specialisation in the policy arenas of education and sustainable development.

"Contestations and Transformations: charting the past, present and future imaginaries of knowledge for policy in education"

Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is working as a professor of education in the Finnish Institute for Educational Research of University of Jyväskylä, Finland. In connection with the ECER conference series, he has the distinction of having been involved in every ECER conference since 1996.

"Reclaiming Truth in the Age of Hypernarrativity"

Pigga Keskitalo is Professor of Education with a specialization in Arctic perspectives in education at the University of Lapland, Finland. She holds the title of Docent (Adjunct Professor) in multicultural education at the University of Helsinki and serves as Professor II at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences (Sámi allaskuvla) in Norway.

"Ecologies of Knowledge and the Future of Teaching: Sámi Education in Times of Transition"

Peter Kraftl is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. An interdisciplinary scholar of childhood, youth and education, his work focuses on children and young people’s interactions with, and learning about, their everyday environments. His work on education has focused on the design and experience of formal, informal, alternative and outdoor learning spaces.

"(Re)thinking why matter matters in mainstream and alternative education spaces"

Jan Masschelein is Emeritus professor of educational theory and philosophy at the Laboratory for Education and Society (University Leuven, Belgium). His research addresses the challenges posed to education with a major interest in (re-)thinking and (re-)inventing the public role of schools and universities.

"The study journey as adventurous fieldwork: Regenerating an old form of education research"