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Dr Emer Smyth is a Research Professor and head of the Social Research Division at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, an independent research institute which aims to inform public policymaking. Her main research interests centre on education, school to work transitions, gender and comparative methodology. She has conducted a number of studies on the effects of schooling contexts on student outcomes and had previously led the Post-Primary Longitudinal Study (PPLS), a mixed methods study which followed a cohort of young people from the first year of secondary education onwards. She has a strong interest in comparative research on education issues and is currently involved in the AQMeN network. In the past, she had worked with a number of staff members at Moray House on comparative studies of education and school to work transitions. During her time at Moray House, she worked with Cristina Iannelli and Markus Klein on papers relating to higher education, and started writing a book based on the Post-Primary Longitudinal Study.

Doctoral student in the Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Catarina is studying the teaching of the visual arts in Portugal, from 1830's to the 1960's and the emergence of a modern and heterogeneous regime of vision and the school based production of the modern subject. Catarina has a Fine Arts degree and is a Master of Arts. Catarina will work at CES, with Prof Martin Lawn, from March to August 2009.

Doctoral student in History of Education, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, University of Lisbon, Portugal, studying visual and discursive analyses of the periodic press and other artefacts of the University of Lisbon since 1880, with a focus on visual methodologies and conceptual tools to understand the social role of images Helena is a Graduate in Fine Arts – Sculpture from the University of Oporto, Portugal and a Master in Art Education from the University of Lisbon. Helena will work at CES, with Prof Martin Lawn, from March to June 2009.

Professor of the Sociology of Education, Zurich University of Teacher Education, is working in CES from December 2008 to May 2009 on the results of a research project on Gender and Research Funding in Scientific Careers, looking at the position of women in science and research funding. (See http://www.snf.ch/E/current/Dossiers/Pages/equality.aspx for more details).

Doctoral student in Educational Assessment and Research Methods at the University of Seville. His thesis is on Parents’ attitudes around Doing Gender. He is also a member of the Research Group: ‘Development and Innovation of Educational Models -DIME- in the Department of Educational Assessment and Research Methods at the University of Seville.

Student at the Danish School of Education at the University of Aarhus. His academic interests are in the history of education, the theory of science and in philosophy. During the academic year 2008-2009 he is based in CES doing research on his dissertation entitled ‘Embedding High-Stakes Educational Testing in Denmark 1920-1970 – A philosophical and historical narrative of a Danish testing regime’.

University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire pour la Solidarite et l’Innovation Sociale, Université Catholique de Louvain

Professor of Education, School of Education, Monash University, Melbourne

Professor of Education and Director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), University of Wisconsin–Madison

Professor of Education and Chair of Graduate Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Akureyri, Iceland