Keynote Speakers

Mel Ainscow
Mel Ainscow CBE is Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, Professor of Education, University of Glasgow and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. A long-term consultant to UNESCO, he is internationally recognized as an authority on the promotion of inclusion and equity in education.
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Jo Angouri
Jo is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Warwick; Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University School of Business, Finland; Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. She combines a highly cited research profile, comprising more than 130 publications, with a strong commitment to education and extensive policy influence.
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Helga Dorner
Dr. Helga Dorner is Associate Professor and Director at the Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary, and Chair of the Higher Education Pedagogy Sub-committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Before joining ELTE, she directed the Center for Teaching and Learning at Central European University.
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A. Lin Goodwin
Professor A. Lin GOODWIN (葛文林) is the Thomas More Brennan Endowed Professor of Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College. Previously she was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2022), and Vice Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University (2011-2017), where she also held the Edward Evenden Professorship in Education. Professor Goodwin served as AERA Vice President—Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education, 2013-2016.
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Krisztián Józsa
Krisztián Józsa is Professor of Education. His research focuses on mastery motivation, school readiness, and the development of cognitive and social skills from early childhood through primary education. He founded and leads the Early Childhood Education Section of the Hungarian Educational Research Association (HERA), an EERA member association.
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Christian Ydesen
Christian Ydesen is Chair of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis at the University of Zürich’s Department of Education and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has been a visiting researcher at Edinburgh (2008 09, 2016), Birmingham (2013), Oxford (2019) and Milan (2021, 2024).
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Important Dates ECER 2027

Title
01.12.2026
Submission starts
31.01.2027
Submission ends
01.04.2027
Registration starts
01.04.2027
Review results announced
15.05.2027
Early bird ends
25.06.2027
Presentation times announced
30.06.2027
Registration Deadline for Presenters
30.08.2027
ERC First Day
31.08.2027
ECER First Day
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Upcoming ECERs

Title
17.08.2026
ECER '26, Tampere
30.08.2027
ECER '27, Debrecen
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Venue Address

University of Debrecen Main Building
Egyetem tér 1
4032 Hungary