EERSS 2025 Keynote Speakers

"Transform Research Cultures: The Role of Doctoral Inquiry in Age-Inclusive Knowledge Production"
Tanu Biswas is an interdisciplinary philosopher of education working to challenge the historical marginalization of children by transforming scholarly and social norms. Her research spans childism, pedagogy, decoloniality, children’s rights, and intergenerational justice.

"Coming into culture, language and difference, and research in education"
Paul Standish is Professor and Head of the Centre for Philosophy of Education at UCL IOE. He has extensive teaching experience in schools, colleges and universities, and is the author or editor of some twenty books.

"Culture and Science. Phenomenology of the Lifeworld"
Dr. Thomas Zingelmann received his doctorate in 2022 with the thesis “Die Ausstellung. Ästhetik und Epistemologie des Zeigens” at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he has been a postdoc at the Chair of Image Theory & Phenomenology of the Institute of Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2023.