Keynote Speakers

Tracey Burns is a Senior Analyst in the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. She heads a portfolio of projects including Trends Shaping Education, 21st Century Children and Strengthening the Impact of Educational Research. She previously led Innovative Teaching for Effective Learning.

Dr. Carole Faucher is an anthropologist currently working at the University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and Sport. Her research primarily focuses on issues pertaining to social identity processes and emotional wellbeing of children and young people living in fragile settings and knowledge production in health and wellbeing education. She is an affiliated researcher with the UNESCO Chair Global Health and Education and a member of the Advisory Board of the Nordic Center for Conflict Transformation.

Maria Assunção Flores works at the University of Minho, Portugal. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her research interests include teacher professionalism and identity, teacher education and professional development, curriculum, assessment, leadership and higher education. She has published extensively on these topics both nationally and internationally.

Robert Khachatryan, PhD, Associate Professor is currently employed at Brusov State University in the capacities of the Head of Chair on Education Management and Planning, as well as the Head of Quality Assurance Center since 2011. He holds PhD from Yerevan State University. He is a MUSKIE fellow and earned his Masters of Public Administration from the University of Kansas.

Professor Bob Lingard is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Learning Sciences & Teacher Education at Australian Catholic University. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Education at The University of Queensland. He has authored/edited 25 books and published many articles in the leading international journals in his fields of sociology of education and policy sociology in education.

Eric Mangez is Professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium, where he teaches social theory, research method, and political sociology. Before being appointed as professor, he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is the former codirector of a large FP6 integrated project funded by the European Commission, investigating the role of knowledge in the European Governance of Health and Education.