FinEd Newsletter 4/2016
20.12.2016
This is a FinEd Newsletter. Newsletters are sent to all members of the FinEd Network via contact persons or email lists in each university and published in the FinEd website.
Rethinking Research Methodology Conference on Nov 16th connected FinEd doctoral candidates and their research
The FinEd Network organised together with the UTU Faculty of Education on November 16th, a Conference entitled "Rethinking Research Methodology" for the Doctoral Candidates. The programme of the conference included poster sessios of the doctoral candidates of the UTU Faculty of Education, a keynote of Professor Niina Nummela (Turku School of Economics) and eight parallel workshop sessions concentrating on methodological and other themes. At the end of the day, a buffet dinner was served. Altogether 77 doctoral candidates participated in the conference (KEVEKO 23, OPPI 25, other FinEd universities 21, University of Helsinki 8), as well as 30 supervisors / senior researchers. It was delightful to see so many participants from outside Turku!
In the website of the conference, there are the keynote lecture of Professor Niina Nummela (Turku School of Economics) “Put in the sugar, and then add the eggs... or is it the other way around? Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods". You will find there also the workshop presentations of Professor Diane Reay (University of Cambridge) “Analysing qualitative data: meeting challenges and developing strategies” and Professor Martin Thrupp (University of Waikato) "Using research to influence education policy and practice". The feedback from the conference was very positive. You may read a summary of the feedback here.
Activities of the FinEd Network in 2016
In short, the FinEd Network has had following activities in 2016, most of which will be continued even in the year 2017:
- Annual seminar of FinEd on 25.–26.5.2016 in Helsinki (44 doctoral candidates of the FinEd universities and 5 from the University of Helsinki)
- Two board meetings (25.5. and 17.11.2016)
- “Rethinking Research Methodology” Conference of the FinEd Network and UTU Faculty of Education, on November 16th, 2016 (48 doctoral candidates from the University of Turku, 21 from the FinEd universities and 8 from the University of Helsinki)
- Planning and printing of the FinEd leaflets
- Organising and announcing of the FinEd mentor pool
- 4 Newsletters
- Planning of the FinEd course tray, contacts with the FinEd universities
- Other administrational work of the coordinator.
Save the Date: FinEd Annual Seminar 2017 in Rovaniemi, November 29, 2017
The annual seminar of FinEd Network will not be organised next spring as it’s done for many years. Instead, the annual gathering of the network will be organised as a pre-seminar of the FERA Conference on November 29, 2017 in Rovaniemi. More information will be sent later, but please save the date! The pre-seminar will be organised together with The Finnish Educational Research Association, FinEd and the University of Lapland. The feedback given from the annual seminar in 2016 will be taken into account when planning the seminar.
Faculty of Education, University of Tampere the next coordination unit of the FinEd in 2018-2019
According to the Cooperation Agreement of the FinEd Network, signed in 2015, the board and the coordinating unit of the FinEd is decided upon by the board for two to three years at a time. The current coordinating unit, UTU Faculty of Education and its Department of Education will continue as the coordinating unit until the end of the year 2017. After that the Faculty of Education, University of Tampere will coordinate the FinEd during the years 2018-2019.
Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools
In Finland
- 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Research on Work: ‘Work and Labour in the Digital Future’, 16-18 August 2017 in Turku. Deadline for abstracts 31st of January 2017.
- 13th Summer Days of the Finnish Research Network on History and Philosophy: “Disciplinary Struggles in the History of Education” Tampere, Finland 7-9th June 2017. Deadline for abstracts 28.2.2017.
- CHER 2017, Consortium for Higher Education Researchers; “Universities as political institutions -HEIs in the middle of academic, economic and social pressures”, August 28-30, Jyväskylä. Deadline for abstracts March 17th, 2017.
- Methods Festival 2017, 30 - 31 May 2017 in Jyväskylä. The programme includes sessions for example of the following topics:
- research data management, anonymization and pseudonymisation
- research data management, anonymization and pseudonymisation
- multilevel modelling
- visual methods
- career planning and working life skillscareer planning and working life skills
- research settings in pedagogical researchresearch settings in pedagogical research
- how to write a good introductory section to an article based PhD
Abroad
- 7th Nordic Conference on Adult Education and Learning: Adult education in the age of global mobility. 3.-5.5.2017. Jönköping, Sweden. DL for abstracts January 7, 2017.
- Joint Conference of the Nordic and National Educational Research Programmes: Nordic Education in Focus: Is there a Common Ground? in Stockholm on 6-7 February 2017. Register by 23 January 2017.
- 33rd European Group for Organizational Studies, EGOS 2017, in Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6-8, 2017. See e.g. the sub-theme 64: "Activity Theory and Organizations". Deadline for short papers January 9, 2017.
- EERA Summer School 2017 on "Methods and Methodology in Educational Research“ 10 – 14 July 2017 in Linz, Austria. Application deadline 1 March 2017.
- BERA, British Educational Research Association, Annual Conference 2017. 5-7 September 2017, University of Sussex, UK. Deadline for abstracts 31 January 2017.
- EAIR (The European Association for Institutional Research) Conference 2017. “Under pressure? Higher education institutions coping with multiple challenges”. September 3-6, University of Porto, Portugal. Deadline for proposals 6 February 2017.
- ECER 2017, European Conference on Educational Research: “Reforming Education and the Imperative of Constant Change: Ambivalent roles of policy and educational research”. August 22 – 25, Copenhagen, Denmark. Deadline for abstracts January 15, 2017.
- EDEN (European Distance and E-Learning Network) 2017 conference “Diversity Matters”. 13-16 June, Jönköping University, Sweden. Call for papers: January 30, 2017.
Other
Aurora Services will be continued at the University of Turku
As an update to the information procived in the last Newsletter, Universities Finland UNIFI, University of Turku and the Council of Finnish Foundations have agreed that the University of Turku continues to produce the Aurora Funding Database Services. From 2017 on, the funding for the Aurora services will be covered mainly by the Finnish universities and the Council of Finnish Foundations.
The next FinEd Newsletter will be published in the beginning of the year 2017. If you have something that you wish to be communicated to the FinEd members, please contact the coordinator.
The FinEd Network thanks all its members and cooperation partners for the past year and wishes all the best for the national doctoral training cooperation in the field of on Educational Sciences also in 2017!