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Sotiria GrekResearch Fellow |
Biographical details
Sotiria joined CES in September 2006. She is a member
of the research team working on the ESRC/ESF funded research project 'Governing
by Numbers: Data and Education Governance in Scotland and England/Fabricating
Quality in European Education'. She is also working on the European Commission
6th Framework Integrated project ‘Knowledge and Policy: The role of Knowledge
in the construction and regulation of Health and Education policy in Europe:
convergences and specificities among nations and sectors’. Finally, she
organises the CES lunchtime seminars.
Education governance; education and European integration; analysis of educational policy discourses; museum education; political economy of education; education and social change. Mixed methods approaches.
Research interests
Education governance; education and European integration; analysis of educational policy discourses; museum education; political economy of education; education and social change. Mixed methods approaches.
Current and recent research
2006-2011: Knowledge
and Policy (FP6) – with Professor Jenny Ozga, Martin Lawn, Farah
Shaik, Irina Issakyan (Centre for Educational Sociology) and Dr Richard
Freeman, Dr Jen Smith and Dr Steve Sturdy (Department of Politics)
(co-ordinators
by Professor
Bernard Delvaux and Dr Eric Mangez, Université Catholique de Louvain). |
2006-2009: Fabricating
Quality in European Education/Governing by Numbers (ESF/ESRC). PI and Co-ordinator Professor Jenny Ozga,
Dr Linda Croxford, Professor Martin Lawn (Centre for Educational
Sociology), Professor John Gray (University of Cambridge) and
research teams
from
Finland, Denmark and Sweden |
2003-2006: PhD Thesis: In and against the museum: the contested space of
museum education for adults |
Selected papers and publications
Forthcoming |
(forthcoming 2010) ‘International organisations and the shared construction
of policy ‘problems’: problematisation and change in education governance
in Europe’, European Educational Research Journal. (forthcoming 2011) ‘Measuring Europe: creating a 'European educational space', in C.Carter, R.Freeman and M.Lawn (eds) Europe: the work of governing, Manchester University Press (with Lawn, M.) (forthcoming 2011) ‘Changing spatial and social relations in education in Europe’, in J.Ozga, P.Dahler-Larsen, C.Segerholm and H.Simola (eds) Fabricating Quality in Education: Data and Governance in Europe, London: Routledge (with Lawn, M. and Risto, R.) (forthcoming 2011) ‘Fabricating Europe: From Culture to Numbers’, in J.Ozga, P.Dahler-Larsen, C.Segerholm and H.Simola (eds) Fabricating Quality in Education: Data and Governance in Europe, London: Routledge (with Rinne, R.) (forthcoming 2011) ‘National Policy Brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland’, in J.Ozga, P.Dahler-Larsen, C.Segerholm and H.Simola (eds) Fabricating Quality in Education: Data and Governance in Europe, London: Routledge (with Ozga, J., Lawn, M., Lingard, B., Rinne, R., Segerholm, C. and Simola, H. ) (forthcoming 2012) ‘The black box revisited: international comparative studies as tools in governing Europe’, in G.Steiner-Khamsi and F.Waldow (eds) World Yearbook of Education 2012 - Policy Borrowing and Lending, Routledge. |
2010 |
‘Re-inventing public education: the new role of knowledge
in education policy-making’, Public Policy and Administration, 25(3),
pp.271–288
(with Ozga J.) ‘Governing Education: England, Scotland the contrasting uses of “Europe”’, British Educational Research Journal. (currently available on i-first DOI:10.1080/01411920903275865 vol and issue date not yet known) (with Ozga, J.). ‘The figure in the (land)scape: hybridity and transformation in education governance in England’, in M.Simons, M.Olssen and M.Peters (eds) Re-reading education policies: studying the policy agenda of the 21st century, Sense Publishers (with Lawn, M.) |
2009 |
‘The New Production of Governing Knowledge: Education Research in the UK’, Soziale
Welt, 60(4), pp.353-370 (with Ozga, J. and Lawn, M.) ‘A Short History of Europeanizing Education: the new political work of calculating the future’, European Education: Issues and Studies, 41(1), pp.32-54 (with Lawn, M.) ‘O PISA e o debate das políticas na Escócia: as narrativas políticas sobre a participação escocesa na comparação internacional’, Sísifo/revista de ciências da educação, 10, pp.75-86 (with Ozga, J. and Lawn, M.) 'Integrated Children Services in Scotland', Know+Pol Orientation 2, Public Action 1, Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain (with Ozga, J and Lawn, M.) ‘Study on the Use and Circulation of PISA at the national Level’, Know+Pol Orientation 3, Public Action 1, Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain. (with Ozga, J and Lawn, M.) Governing by Numbers: the PISA effect in Europe, Journal of Education Policy, 24(1), pp.23-37. ‘National Policy Brokering and the construction of the European Education Space in England, Sweden, Finland and Scotland’, Comparative Education, 45(1), pp.5-21 (with Lawn, M., Lingard, B., Segerholm, C., Simola, H., Ozga, J.) ‘North by Northwest: quality assurance processes in European schooling’, Journal of Education Policy (Special Issue), 24(2), pp.121-133 (with Lawn, M., Lingard B. and Varjo, J.) ‘Quality assurance and Evaluation (QAE) in Scotland: Promoting self-evaluation within and beyond the country’, Journal of Education Policy (Special Issue), 24(2), pp.179-193 (with Croxford, L and Shaik, F.) ‘Governing Education: England, Scotland the contrasting uses of “Europe”’, Educational Review (under review) (with Ozga, J.) ‘Museums and Critical Discourse Analysis: Disentangling Exhibition Narratives’, in Thao Le (ed) Critical Discourse Analysis: An interdisciplinary perspective, New York: Nova. (in press) |
2008 |
‘In and against the museum:
the contested spaces of museum education for adults’, Discourse:
Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (under review)
PISA in the British media: leaning tower or robust testing tool? CES Briefing No. 45, April 2008 ‘From symbols to numbers: the shifting technologies of education governance in Europe’, European Education Research Journal, 7(2), pp.208-218. |
2007 |
National policy brokering and the construction of the European education space:
the cases of England and Scotland, FabQ Working Paper 3, online,
http://www.ces.ed.ac.uk/research/FabQ/publications.htm (with Lingard,
B., Lawn, M. Ozga, J.) 'Adult education, museums and critique: towards new methods of researching the field’, in M. Osborne, M. Houston, N. Toman (eds) Researching the Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning, London and New York: Routledge. The OECD, Indicators and PISA: an exploration of events and theoretical perspectives, FabQ Working Paper 2, online, http://www.ces.ed.ac.uk/research/FabQ/publications.htm (with Lingard, B.) |
2006 |
Museum Education and Critical Social Research:
Towards New Methods of Researching the Field, in M. Osborne, M. Houston,
N. Toman (eds) Researching the Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning,
London and New York: Routledge. Museums and the Unbearable Lightness of Inclusion, in A. Antikainen, P. Harinen & C. A. Torres (eds) In from the Margins. Adult Education, Work and Civil Society, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 253-264. |
2005 |
Critical
ethnography and museum education: the pursuit of in-depth analysis
of visitor learning experiences, European Educational Research
Association Annual Conference, University College Dublin. URL: http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~beiwww/beid.html. Museums and Critical Discourse Analysis: Disentangling Exhibition Narratives, Conference Proceedings: International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis, University of Tasmania, Australia, pp.209-217. Adult Education, Museums and Critique: Towards New Methods of Researching the Field, Conference Proceedings: What a difference pedagogy makes, Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, University of Stirling, pp.228-234. Old Theories in New Learning Contexts: Re-engaging the Public in Museums, in A. Bron et al (eds), ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Worlds of Adult Learning, European Society for Research on the Education of Adults: Wroclaw, pp.83-93. |
2004 |
Museums and adult education in the UK: from the
old ‘cabinets of curiosities’ to museums as new sites for non-formal
learning, Conference Proceedings, vol.3, pp.81-90, European Society
for Research on the Education of Adults, Wroclaw, Poland. New customers with experimental adult education in museums, Lifelong Learning in Europe, IX, 3, pp.192-197. Whose story do museums tell? Researching museums as sites of adult learning, Conference Proceedings, pp.101-108, Whose story now? (Re)generating research in adult learning and teaching, SCUTREA, University of Sheffield. |
2003 |
From the ‘Ultima Thule’ to a Cultural Borderland:
Museum Education in a devolved Scotland, unpublished MLitt thesis,
University of St Andrews, Scotland. |
2001 |
Greek Realities: Contemporary Greek Art and its
Representation Abroad, unpublished MPhil Thesis, Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, Greece. |

