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Sotiria Grek

Research Fellow
Email: sotiria.grek@ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6276
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6239

 

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.

 

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 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 John Gray (University of Cambridge), Professor Martin Lawn 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

2009
‘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.)

‘The figure in the (land)scape: hybridity and transformation in education governance in England’, in M. Simons, M. Olssen, M. Peters (eds) Re-reading education policies: studying the policy agenda of the 21st century, Sense Publishers. (with Lawn, M.)

‘Museums and Critical Discourse Analysis: Disentangling Exhibition Narratives’, in Thao Le (ed) Critical Discourse Analysis: An interdisciplinary perspective, New York: Nova. (in press)
2008
‘A Short History of Europeanizing Education: the new political work of calculating the future’, European Education: Issues and Studies (accepted) (with Lawn, M.)

‘Re-inventing public education: the new role of knowledge in education policy-making’, Public Policy and Administration. (under review) (with Ozga J.)

‘The New Production of Governing Knowledge: Education Research in the UK’, Soziale Welt. (under review) (with Ozga, J and Lawn, M.)

‘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.

 

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