Network Activities

Giusy Cannella (Network 14 Convenor): a new MOOC about Small and Rural Schools in Europe developed as part of INDIRE’s research activities (https://youtu.be/ZBqSg4BOHc4?feature=shared).

Dr Silvie Rita Kučerová (Network 14 Convenor), co-editor of a special issue of the Slovak journal Geografický časopis / Geographical Journal on the topic of 'Education and Schooling in Society: Spatial Accessibility and Social Justice'. A few Network 14 members work will be included in this SI.

Prof Loizos Symeou (Network 14 Convenor): - Parent and Guardians Associations and their Role in the Landscape of School-Family Relationships. Paper (Savva, M. & Symeou, L.) presented at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology “Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene” (6-11 July 2025, Rabat, Morocco). - Designing, nurturing, and sustaining collaborative relationships between families and schools: experiences and suggestions of parents of disabled children. Paper (Damianidou, E. & Symeou, L.) presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of the European Research Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE) “Educational Partnership between Families, Schools, and Communities: Weaving vibrant alliances to empower individuals and overcome collective vulnerabilities” (June 4-6, 2025, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy). - Inclusive Outdoor Education for Children in Early Childhood. Paper (Symeou, L., Papazachariou-Christoforou, M., Christoforou, Y., Englezou, D., Stylianou, E. & Anastasiades, T.) presented at the BERA Conference 2024 & WERA Focal Meeting (8-12 September 2024, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

International Emerging Rural Scholars Summit in October 2024 - Laurence Lasselle as Network 14 LC contributed to the panel discussion on Working in Different Contexts: Researcher Mobility

Network 14 & ERG (online) Emerging Researchers events in November 2024 and April 2025 November 2024 - We learned about the research from two of our peers:  Xi-Ning Wang from the University of St Andrews in the UK and Hanyue Zhong from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Lisa (ERC LC) and Laurence Lasselle (Network 14 LC) talked about the submission process of ERC and ECER 2025.

April 2025 - We learned about the research from two of our peers: Konstantin Anchikov from HSE University in Russia and Varun Mehta from Curtin University in Australia. Lisa (ERC LC) and Laurence Lasselle (Network 14 LC) gave a few presentation tips for ERC and ECER 2025.

EERA blogs: Parental and Family Involvement in Children’s Digital Learning by Declan Qualter and Rachel Farrell Growing (with) EERA Network 14 by Joana Lúcio (former Network 14 LC)

A few Network 14 contributors participated in ERNAPE (Educational Partnership between Families, Schools, and Communities) in Verona, Italy in June 2025.

Fundraising campaign 'Let’s consciously and creatively manage Artificial Intelligence', related to the research project presented by Prof Emanuela Guarcello, Network 14 Reviewer, in Autumn 2024 

The contract for our forthcoming Handbook on Communities, Families and Organisations in Educational Research was signed with Bloomsbury in February 2025. The volume is co-edited by the Network 14 LC Laurence Lasselle, former Network 14 LCs Joana Lúcio and Rocío García Carrión, and Network 14 Reviewer Melyssa Fuqua. The Handbook publication is anticipated in 2027.

Dr Cath Gristy (Network 14 Convenor) and Dr. Begoña Vigo-Arrazola co-edited a SI of the International Journal of Education Research (IJER), which includes many NW14 members. It focussed on multigrade classrooms through an inclusion lens. 

A few Network 14 contributors will participate in the international conference, “New Frontiers: Inter-disciplinary Research on Refugee Children and Youth” on refugees and asylum seekers with a special focus on the experience of children and youth at the University of Iceland this Autumn (31st October - 1 November).

Network 14 & ERG (online) Emerging Researchers event in November 2025 and April 2026. Online event around the launch of the Elgar Handbook on Geographies of Education (an event is also planned at ECER 2026)

More around the Bloomsbury Handbook on Communities, Families, and Organisations in Educational Research at ECER 2026 Network 14 should apply for EERA funding to fund the events around these two handbooks.