Network Activities

Webinar Series - Emerging Researchers' Group and Network 28. EERA Sociologies of Education

To warm up to the 2025 ECER conference in Belgrade, Serbia, the EERA Sociologies of Education network and the Emerging Researchers' Group are organizing a webinar series for emerging education researchers.

Dates and Topics

  • March 25th 10 AM (CET) Meet the editors of the British Journal of Sociology of Education and the Journal of Education Policy
  • May 13th 10 AM (CET) Writing your first academic article with Barbara Gross
  • May 26th 10 AM (CET) Writing a successful ERC grant proposal with Sotiria Grek and Miri Yemini

Publications

SocEd Thursdays webinar series To warm up to the 2024 ECER conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, the EERA Sociologies of Education network is organizing a webinar series linked to the theme of the conference and the network’s call, Social Imaginaries of the Future: The making and unmaking of certainty in education.

Webinar Programme
1. Professor Kristiina Brunila (University of Helsinki): A Critical Look in the Educational Aims and Imperatives in the Future-proof Era Time: Thursday, March 14th 2024. 2PM-3:15PM CET View the video of the webinar here

2. Dr Elke Van dermijnsbrugge (NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences): Beyond Hope and Despair: The Radical Imagination as a Collective Practice for Uprising Time: Thursday, April 11th 2024. 2PM-3:30 PM CET View the video of the webinar here

3. Prof. Gert Biesta (Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Professor of Public Education at Maynooth University, Ireland)The Future of Education, the Time of the School , the Role of the Teacher and the Question of Authority View the video of the webinar here

4. Professor Keri Facer (University of Bristol): Possibility and the Temporal Imagination Time: Thursday, May 16th 2024. 2PM-3:15 CET View the video of the webinar here

5. Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Surrey): Higher education timescapes: temporal understandings of students and learning Time: Thursday, June 6th 2024. 2PM-3:15 CET View the video of the webinar here

An EERJ special issue proposal is under preparation based on the network's special call

Future Plans

We plan to continue the webinar series in Spring-Summer 2025.

NW 28 runs a mailing list and invites researchers to join. To join the mailing list, send a blank message to nw28-subscribe(at)lists.eera-ecer.de

Interview with Link Convenor 2019