7th International Euredocs Conference 2010 - Deconstructing the Europeanization’ processes of higher education and Research

7th International Euredocs Conference 2010 - Deconstructing the Europeanization’ processes of higher education and Research

Date : 28-05-2010 - 30-05-2010

Lausanne

Organisation : European Research and Higher Education Doctoral Studies (Euredocs)
Localement : OSPS (Observatoire science, politique et société), université de Lausanne

Programme :
The 7th EUREDOCS Conference will address the following theme: Deconstructing the Europeanization’ processes of higher education and research.
Instead of focusing on a specific dimension of the Europeanization process of national higher education and research systems, this conference is an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of the multilevel and multidimensional processes implicated in the Europeanization of higher education and research.
What does PhD researches identify as groundbreaking characteristics of this process? How can we today define, typify the higher education and research Europeanization?


As a consequence, the papers presented are free to analyse one or several dimensions characterising this process, being structural, organisational or functional dimensions.
For example, the papers can address university governance, academic careers structure or curricula content. They can develop national, institutional, disciplinary or comparative case study, quantitative or qualitative approaches. They are free to question organisations, actors or power relationships. They can focus on objective dimensions of the Europeanization as well as subjective dimensions, questioning for example how academics think that Europeanization changes their professional activity.
Whatever the dimension researched, the paper must built on original empirical data to analyse a singular dimension of the HE Europeanization process.
The ultimate aim of the conference thus consists, through a bottom up approach and an inductive procedure, to develop a holist and up to date perspective on this topic, each paper bringing an original piece to the building up of the whole puzzle.

EUREDOCS conferences are open to all young researchers preparing a PhD or having finished their PhD within the past three years and working on higher education and research in Europe.
The scientific committee of EUREDOCS each time selects about 15 proposals and the papers are extensively discussed during the conference.


The deadline for the submission of a proposal is 25 January 2010.


About EUREDOCS
EUREDOCS is a doctoral network on Europeanization of higher education and research, animated by Sciences Po. It aims at facilitating and enabling more communication exchange and mobility among young scholars in this field. Each year an international conference for PhD candidates and recent doctorates is organized. The members of the scientific committee of EUREDOCS are :

- CIPES, Center for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal (Pedro Teixeira)
- CHEPS, University of Twente, Netherland (Jürgen Enders)
- CSO, Sciences Po and CNRS, France (Christine Musselin)
- Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom (Vincent Carpentier)
- International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel), University of Kassel, Germany (Barbara Kehm )
- OSPS, University of Lausanne, Switzerland (Gaële Goastellec)
- School of Education, Roehampton University, United Kingdom (Penny Jane Burke)
- Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies, University of Bergen, Norway (Ivar Bleiklie)

URL : http://www.euredocs.sciences-po.fr/index.htm