FinEd Newsletter 2-3/2015
26.03.2015
This is a FinEd (former KASVA) Newsletter. Monthly newsletters are sent to all subscribers of the FinEd mailing list and published on the FinEd website.
Register for the Annual Seminar of FinEd by April 10th!
The deadline for registration for the FinEd Annual seminar has been extended until 10.4. The accommodation capacity of Herrankukkaro is limited and we can take max 50 doctoral students to the seminar. There is still plenty of room so we welcome as many of you as possible! As before, all the expenses of the seminar are covered to all participants (the overnight stay, meals and the most economical travel expenses).
The annual seminar of FinEd "Transformations of the Governance of Education in Europe" will be organized in the highly distinctive conference center Herrankukkaro in Rymättylä, Turku archipelago, on 9-10.6.2015. The first keynote lecturer will be researcher Xavier Pons (University of East Paris Créteil and “Observatoire Sociologique du Changement”, Sciences Po, Paris) with a title "School Evaluation Policies and Educating States". The invited speakers of the second keynote lecture on "Policy elite interviews in education policy research" are university lecturer, PhD Nelli Piattoeva (University of Tampere) and Post-Doctoral Researcher, docent Jaakko Kauko (University of Helsinki). In the small groups of the seminar, you have an unique possibility to present your research and network with doctoral students and supervisors from all around Finland. Also the social programme is beyond comparison – come and experience the biggest smoke sauna in the world!
See the updated programme of the seminar and register by April 10th! Please note that there is a change in the starting time of the bus transportation from Turku, now at 10:10.
Decisions of the FinEd travel grants 2015
There were altogether 60 applicants for the FinEd travel grants - a double number compared to the year 2014. There were applicants from all the eight universities of the network. The director and the coordinator of FinEd evaluated the applications and the coordinator informed all applicants of the decisions on March 13th, 2015. If you applied for the grant but have not received information about the decision, please check the trash folder of your e-mail.
The criteria that were used in the decisions were following, following the call for applications: 1) The grants are given to diverse research visit abroad, including a presentation, 2) The priority is given to those applicants who work with their dissertation full-time, 3) FinEd also aims at an equal share of grants between the universities. These criteria applied for 52 applicants. The grants for the doctoral candidates were divided according to the universities as follows: University of Helsinki: 20, University of Oulu: 10, University of Jyväskylä: 7, University of Turku: 6, University of Eastern Finland: 4, University of Tampere: 2, Åbo Akademi: 2, University of Lapland 1. Each grant was max 700 euros, the total sum of the grants is 35 758 euros.
New short addresses of the webpages of FinEd
The coordinator is updating the Finnish and English webpages of the FinEd network. The addresses of the webpages now correspond the new name of the network and there are also short versions www.utu.fi/fined in Finnish and www.utu.fi/fined-en in English. We ask the member units of the network to update the links in their webpages.
Dissertations of the members of the FinEd Network
Master of Education Sari Silmäri-Salo will defend her dissertation on March 27th, 2015 in the faculty of education, University of Turku (Educarium, EDU 1 at 12). The dissertation of education is entitled "Peruskoulun yläkouluvalinnat Turussa. Perheiden yläkouluvalintojen rakentuminen äitien puheissa ja toimissa." (Choices of comprehensive schools in Turku. Parental school choice of a lower secondary school constructed in discourse and actions of mothers). The opponents are professor Hannu Räty (University of Eastern Finland) and adjunct professor Janne Varjo (University of Helsinki). Custos will be professor Risto Rinne from the University of Turku. The dissertation is published as e-thesis.
Warm congratulations to Sari!
All the members of KASVA/FinEd, please remember to inform the coordinator of your upcoming dissertation.
Upcoming conferences and seminars
1st International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education (BalticSTE2015) – State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives. 15-18 June 2015, Siauliai, Lithuania. Abstract (Short Paper)/Poster Submission by 20 April 2015.
6th International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology ICEEPSY 2015, October 13-17, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey. Abstract Submission Deadline: 01 July 2015.
Call for paper
CALL FOR PAPER: QWERTY VOL. 10, n. 2, 2015 – SPECIAL ISSUE “Innovation and digital technology: Between continuity and change”. Guest Editors Gisella Paoletti (University of Trieste) Stefano Cacciamani (University of Valle D’Aosta). Submission of the papers by April 30, 2015.
Sunny spring to all the readers of the Newsletter!
The next FinEd Newsletter will be published in April, 2015. If you have something that you wish to be communicated to the FinEd members, please inform the coordinator.