The GEPS Seminar Series for the 2023-2024 academic year has a monthly schedule, where permanent GEPS members and visiting researchers will present their work. Seminars are open to the university community upon registration. Find below the upcoming and past events.
APRIL 2024: AINA TARABINI AND JUDITH JACOVKIS
We invite you to the next GEPS Seminar by Aina Tarabini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Judith Jacovkis (Universitat de Barcelona), entitled Perduts pel camí. Desigualtats en les transicions educatives després de l’ESO.
The presentation will take place on Friday, April 26 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm at Seminari A, in the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the UAB. Those who wish to attend the seminar must register through the following form: https://rb.gy/bmxci.
march 2024: manuel ángel río ruiz
Manuel Ángel Río Ruiz (Universidad de Sevilla) leaded a seminar about his current research on public nursery schools or Escoles Bressol Municipals (0 to 3 years old), in Barcelona. The presentation follows an extensive fieldwork including in-depth interviews and visits across the ten districts of the city.
february 2024: flora petrik
Flora Petrik (Universität Tübingen) presented her research on the connection between social class and educational choices in Higher Education. In concrete, she is working on issues related to first generation university students and biographical trajectories from a Bourdesian perspective.
january 2024: anja neundorf
Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow) has been doing research on long-term effects of authoritarian and democratic education. The results of her study show that democratic education has a positive impact on citizens’ support for democracy, while those who lived, and studied, during dictatorship times are more skeptical regarding democratic values.
january 2024: Ngaire honey
Ngaire Honey, from Universidad de O’Higgins (Chile), hosted the first GEPS seminar of the year 2024. Honey’s study on “academically excellent” (AE) schools in Chile tries to bring some light on the scholarly debate regarding the effect of academically selective schools on student behavior, performance, and persistence.
december 2023: Prof. Martyn hammersley
In his presentation, Martyn Hammersley (The Open University), explored the the nature of the qualitative-quantitative distinction, at the level of both practice and methodological philosophy. A divide that, in his opinion, has become institutionalised, and so it is resistant to change.
november 2023: Prof. meg maguire
Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London. She has a longstanding interest in education policy and practice, social justice, and with the challenges of inner-city schooling.
september 2023: Prof. kalwant bhopal
Professor Kalwant Bhopal is the Director at the Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE), in the School of Education, University of Birmingham. She delivered the opening speech for both the GEPS seminars and the Master in Education Policies for Global Development (GLOBED), on the 2023/2024 academic year.
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21 SEPTEMBER 2023
Black and minority ethnic (BME) experiences in Higher Education, by Prof. Kalwant Bhopal (University of Birmingham)
17 NOVEMBER 2023
The best days of their lives? Young peoples’ in-school experiences and the part they play in shaping post-16 ‘horizons for action’, by Prof. Meg Maguire (King’s College London)
1 DECEMBER 2023
Beyond the great divide: Can quantitative and qualitative research be re-integrated?, by Prof. Martyn Hammersley (The Open University)
12 jANUARY 2024
School selectivity and excellence as a policy trajectory: The effect of assignment to academically selective schools in Chile, by Ngaire Honey (Universidad de O’Higgins).
19 jANUARY 2024
Authoritarian and democratic imprinting: The long-term impact of education on democratic support, by Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow)
23 FEBRUARY 2024
Between resistance and belonging: class experiences in Higher Education, by Flora Petrik (Universität Tübingen)
15 MARCH 2024
Escuelas infantiles públicas y familias en el campo de la educabilidad 0-3 años en Barcelona: cambios, tensiones, interdependencias y diferencias, by Manuel Ángel Río Ruiz (Universidad de Sevilla)
26 APRIL 2024
Perduts pel camí. Desigualtats en les transicions educatives després de l’ESO, by Aina Tarabini (UAB) and Judith Jakovkis (UB).
may 2024
Xavier Bonal (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
June 2024
TBC
Globalisation, Education and Social Policies 