EERA Network 14 – Emerging Researchers Group Joint Event
Network 14 and ER Group were delighted to welcome 16 Emerging Researchers from Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States of America to its sixth online event for Emerging Researchers on 16 April 2025. This event aimed to bring together our community of Emerging Researchers in a cosy and friendly environment.
The participants learned about the research from two of their peers: Konstantin Anchikov from HSE University in Russia and Varun Mehta from ACSES at Curtin University in Australia.
Konstantin talked about school-community interactions in different complex contexts and how it linked with life trajectories of school graduates. Varun talked about how the distance from a high-school student's home to their nearest university campus impacts their probability of enrolling in higher education.
They also learned 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) from Laurence Lasselle, the EERA Network 14 Link-convenor and Lisa Bugno, the Emerging Group Link-convenor. ECER2025 will be in Belgrade, Serbia from 8 September 2025 to 12 September 2025.
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)
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