Network Activities

EERA Network 14 and EERA ERG: Emerging Researchers Online Event

  • 16 April 2025 
  • 9am – 10.30am (UK time)
  • To register to attend: here

Laurence Lasselle, Link Convenor of EERA Network 14.  Communities, Families, and Schooling in Educational Research, and Lisa Bugno, Lin Convenor of the Emerging Researchers’ Group (ERG), invite you to an online event for Emerging Researchers on 16 April 2025 from 9am UK time.

EERA Network 14 is one of the 34 Networks of the European Educational Research Association and provides a forum for the development of research-informed knowledge in the field of Education, with a specific interest in the relationships between communities, families and schools.

Join us for an online gathering of scholars to participate in an event in which:

  • You will learn about the research from two of our peers: Konstantin Anchikov from HSE University in Russia and Varun Mehta from Curtin University in Australia.
  • You will learn a few presentation tips for the European Conference on Education Research (ECER) and the Emerging Researchers Conference (ERC) organised by the European Educational Research Association (EERA). ECER2025 will be in Belgrade, Serbia from 8 September 2025 to 12 September 2025. 

This event aims to bring together our community of Emerging Researchers in a cosy and friendly environment. Emerging researchers will discuss research issues and experienced researchers will share their knowledge and support them.

Schedule of the event:

  • 9am – 9.10am: Welcome and Introduction by Laurence Lasselle, EERA Network 14 Link-convenor and experienced researcher and Lisa Bugno, ERC Link-convenor
  • 9.10 – 9.25am: First talk by Konstantin Anchikov (HSE, Russia). He will talk about school-community interactions in different complex contexts and how it linked with life trajectories of school graduates. He will be introduced by Laurence. 
  • 9.25 – 9.40am: Second talk by Varun Mehta(ACSES, Australia). He will talk about how the distance from a high-school student's home to their nearest university campus impacts their probability of enrolling in higher education. He will be introduced by Laurence.
  • 9.40 – 10.00am : Discussion - all 
  • 10.00 – 10.15am: Presentation tips at ECER and ERC by Laurence and Lisa
  • 10.15 – 10.25am: Q&A session on presentations at ECER and ERC
  • 10.25 – 10.30am: Conclusion, Goodbye and Way forward! 

General Activities

Laurence Lasselle (EERA Network 14 Link-convenor), Giusy Cannella and Cath Gristy (EERA Network 14 co-conveners) participated in the 2023 International Emerging Rural Scholars Summit co-organised by Melyssa Fuqua (University of Melbourne, Australia), Natalie Downes (University of Canberra, Australia) and Hanyue Zhong (University of Melbourne, Australia).

Laurence Lasselle, Julia Melnikova (Volda University College, Norway), Hilde Hjertager Lund (Western Norway University of Applied Science, Norway) and Gry Paulgaard (UiT, Norway) led a NERA Network 18 workshop around 'Contributions to the Handbook on Communities, Families and Schooling in Education Research' at the NERA 2025 conference in Malmö in Sweden last March. NERA: Nordic Educational Research Association and Network 18: Families, Institutions and Communities

Publications

The Network continues to have links to the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education (see below), the International Journal of Educational Psychology (Rocío Garcia-Carrion, EERA Network 14 co-convenor, is editor), the International Journal of Research & Method in Education (Jo Rose, EERA Network 14 co-convenor, is co-editor) and the Journal for Education and Development (Rocío Garcia-Carrion is deputy editor).

The Network has newly established links with the Journal of Continuing Higher Education (Laurence Lasselle, EERA Network 14 Link-convenor, joined the Editorial Board in the Spring).

3 new EERA Network 14 blogs COVID-19 pandemic and the mental health and well-being of secondary school children by Margaret Wood, Feng Su and Andrew Pennington | Jointly with BERA Silent heroes – Celebrating Peru’s early childhood educators in times of crisis by Tom Chambers | Jointly with BERA & NW 10 Teacher Education Research Growing (with) EERA Network 14 by Joana Lúcio (EERA Network 14 co-convenor)

Special Issue of the Australian and International Journal of Rural Education – Summer 2024 co-edited by Laurence Lasselle and Robyn Henderson (EERA Network 14 co-convenor) a selection of articles from the Network 14 Special Call – ECER 2023: Considering Diversity in Educational Research Bloomsbury Book proposal was developed in 2023-24 and is now under review: Handbook on Communities, Families and Organisations in Educational Research (co-edited by Laurence, Melyssa Fuqua, Joana Lúcio and Rocío García Carrión)

Emerging Researchers events in November 2023 and March 2024 – Online events in two parts: November 2023 - We learned about the research from two of our peers:  Jean Lang from the University of Exeter in the UK and Qazi Ahmed from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.   Laurence Lasselle talked about the submission process of ERC and ECER 2024. April 2024 - We learned about the research from two of our peers: Declan Qualter from the University College Dublin in Ireland and Xin Fan from the University of Durham in the UK. Laurence Lasselle gave a few presentation tips for ERC and ECER 2024.

Future Plans

  • International Emerging Rural Scholar Summit on 26 October 2024.
  • Emerging Researchers event in November 2024 (more information soon) and in Spring 2025
  • We will continue to make links with the World Educational Research Association for which Rocío Garcia-Carrion serves as Secretary General.
  • Yes, I should apply for EERA funding (potential book: Handbook series of Bloomsbury and special session at ECER 2025)

NW 14 runs a mailing list and invites researchers to join. To join the mailing list, send a blank message to nw14-subscribe(at)lists.eera-ecer.de

Interview with Link Convenor 2019