Research group meeting on Wednesday, 7 December, 1-2 pm, Conference Room 2.15 CMB Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education, will discuss the design of a new collaborative research project:   Lindsay Paterson: ‘Lifelong education and lifelong social mobility: research using birth cohorts data spanning 75 years’ I will describe the design of a project that compares   …Continue Reading

Our next research group meeting will be on Wednesday, 16th November, 1-2 pm (CMB meeting room 6). Nikos Kanellopoulos, PhD candidate in social policy, will present his latest findings from his research on Greek Higher Education reforms during the crisis.   Nikos Kanellopoulos: Greek Higher Education reforms during the crisis: the discursive construction of contesting   …Continue Reading

Welcome back to a new academic year! Here’s our programme for semester 1:   12 October, 1-2 pm (CMB meeting room 6) Sotiria Grek: Research Design and Interdisciplinary research: challenges of developing a new project   16 November, 1-2 pm (CMB meeting room 6) Nikos Kanellopoulos: Competing Discourses in Greek Higher Education Reform during the Crisis     …Continue Reading

We’re happy to welcome Linda Rönnberg from the University of Umeå to give a lecture as part of the SPSS Social Policy seminar series. Discussant: Anna Pultar, PhD student Social Policy   14th of March 2016 4-5.30 pm room 1.204, 7 Bristo Square   Abstract The Swedish education system is increasingly viewed as being dominated   …Continue Reading

Christian Ydesen, Associate Professor at the University of Aalborg and current IASH-SPS Visiting Fellow, will give a talk as part of the SPSS Social Policy seminar series. Discussant: Mark Wong, PhD student Social Policy   2 March 2016 3-4.30 pm Medical School, Teviot – G.16 Seminar Room – Doorway 4   The presentation will throw   …Continue Reading

We welcome our newest member, Christian Ydesen, University of Aalborg and IASH-SPS Visiting fellow, who will discuss his paper on: The high-stakes sorting of children into remedial education at the municipality of Frederiksberg from 1930-1943, based on standardised intelligence testing   24th of February, at 12:00 in conference room 2.15, CMB   Abstract His paper   …Continue Reading

Happy new year! We’re happy to announce that our research group will be joined by Dr Christian Ydesen, Associate Professor at the Department for Learning and Philosophy at University of Aalborg, who is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He will be speaking on 27th January (1-2 pm,   …Continue Reading