TEAMS involves interdisciplinary collaboration between four teams from the Universities of Edinburgh, Stockholm, Jyväskylä and Turku.
University of Edinburgh
Dr Nataša Pantić
Principal Investigator (Project lead)
Dr Pantić is a Senior Lecturer (associate professor) at the University of Edinburgh, School of Education. Much of her recent work has focused on teachers and their education as agents of change. She has published extensively on teachers’ work in the contexts of social and cultural diversity. In her current research she uses mixed-method social network analysis to examine how teachers interact with other actors to address educational inequalities and support all students, especially the vulnerable ones. Since 2002 she has engaged in numerous research and reform projects, both as an academic, and in various consultancy roles for international organisations. She is passionate about educational research and its impact on change in education to address some of the biggest social challenges of our time, such as migration.
Professor Lani Florian
Co-Investigator
Professor Lani Florian is Bell Chair of Education and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). She is best known for her work on the concept of inclusive pedagogy as a way of working that can improve educational outcomes for everyone, and teacher education for inclusive education. Her research challenges the assumption that certain groups of children, in particular those who find learning difficult, have a detrimental effect on the achievement of other children and shows how high levels of inclusion can be entirely compatible with high levels of achievement. She argues that combining the two is not only possible but also essential if all children are to have the opportunity to participate fully in education.
Dr Gil Viry
Co-Investigator
Gil Viry is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology. He joined the University of Edinburgh in 2012 as a Chancellor’s Fellow. Using social survey methods, social network analysis and sequence analysis, his substantive research focuses on spatial mobility, social networks, family and intimate relationships. He has a keen interest in studying the spatiality of social networks and how spatial distance and mobility behaviours relate to individuals’ social and professional integration over the life course. His contribution to the TEAMS project will be related to the network data collection and analysis, and the combination of social network analysis and ethnographic research to study teachers’ agency and the structural conditions that facilitate opportunities for migrant students’ integration.
Dr Diana Murdoch
Outreach Co-ordinator
After many years teaching in mainstream schools, in UK and Europe, Diana moved into Support for Learning and Special Education. This led to doctoral research into the lived experience of inclusive education, within the context of a mainstream secondary school, with students, teachers and families. More recent and current research projects are a scoping review on the provision of education for those at greatest risk of educational exclusion worldwide; inclusive education and pedagogy, and teacher agency within Higher Education. Diana’s recent teaching on several Masters courses in inclusive education, at the University of Edinburgh, includes teacher agency, pedagogy, comparative approaches to inclusive and special education, and philosophy of education.
Dr Marc Sarazin
Post-doctoral Researcher
Dr Marc Sarazin is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Education at the University of Edinburgh. He researches how social networks, institutional environments, and government policies influence teachers’ work and students’ school experiences. His work stems from the premise that schools can just as well maintain inequalities as they can enable social change, and his research strives to promote schooling that does more of the latter. To do this, Marc analyses data from many different sources, from administrative ‘big data’ to ethnographic observations from the field. He also focuses on furthering applications of social network analysis and mixed methods approaches in education.
Silvia de Riba
Filmmaker
Silvia de Riba Mayoral is a freelance videographer, arts educator and PhD candidate under the program Arts and Education of the University of Barcelona. She is a BA graduate in Audiovisual Communication (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) and holds a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts and Education (University of Barcelona, Spain). In her professional career, she has worked in several educational projects involving media and arts. She has focused on the pedagogical potentialities of visual arts, especially how video practices can be a tool for enabling socially committed learning processes. In her thesis she seeks to approach the pedagogical and methodological possibilities that video practices offer in order to respond to the complex migration educational context.
Dr Grace Kong
Project administrator
Dr Grace Kong obtained her PhD in Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity at Moray House, University of Edinburgh in 2005 and is currently employed as a research assistant and academic coordinator. Her contributions to the TEAMS project include managing its social media accounts, organising team meetings and other knowledge exchange activities, as well as monitoring the project finance.
Stockholm University
Professor Anna Lund
Co-Investigator, Stockholm University team lead
Anna Lund is a sociologist and an ethnographer with internationally recognized work in areas of immigration, ethnicity, gender and social inclusion/exclusion in educational settings. She has extensive experience of working with migrant students to capture their lived experiences of schooling. Lund utilizes cultural sociological perspectives in order to illuminate if and how education can be a civil sphere for multicultural incorporation and of hope and solidarity in the midst of adversity. Thus, she employs civil sphere theory at the microlevel by investigating interactional and organizational processes in schools. Lund is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University; she is also Faculty Fellow in the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
Dr Didem Oral
Postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Oral is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, Stockholm University. She was awarded a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In her PhD Thesis “Peace Movements in Militaristic Societies: Israel and Turkey as Unidentical Twins” she looked at how political opportunity structures shape peace movements’ characteristics in these two different countries. As a political sociologist, her research interests include social movements, migration, militarism, gender, state-society relations, Kurdish Question in Turkey, political consumerism, Israeli politics& society and qualitative research methods. In the TEAMS project she will be focusing on opportunity structures in and out of the school system, identifying different networks, looking at the link between social integration and mobility, conducting ethnographic fieldwork and assessing and analyzing the data.
University of Jyväskylä
Dr Päivi Hökkä
Co-Investigator, University of Jyväskylä team lead
Päivi Hökkä, PhD, dos. (adjunct professor) is a researcher in education and adult education at the Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She had recently led TUNTO-project, which explored emotional agency in organizational change and worked in REAL-project, which investigated emotions in agentic learning at work. She has conducted research and published articles on professional agency and identity, teacher education, emotions at work, and leadership in education. Her recent publications include articles in Journal of Workplace Learning, Journal of Teacher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, and Vocations and Learning.
Dr Eveliina Manninen
PhD Researcher
Eveliina Manninen is a PhD researcher and project researcher in the field of multicultural and migrant education at the Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has many years of experience in teaching. She holds a Master’s Degree in Education and in her thesis she addressed the meanings of asylum seekers and diversifying school community constructed and re-constructed by discourses of students with Finnish speaking background. Her research interests lie in integration as a two way process along with agency, belonging and otherness in the school context.
Professor Mirja Tarnanen
Co-Investigator
Dr Mirja Tarnanen is a professor at the University of Jyväskylä, the Department of Teacher Education. Her research has focused on (multi)literacy and assessment practices across curriculum and educational levels, migrants in professional and educational communities, policies and practices in second language teaching, promoting multilingualism in schools and curriculum reforms in teacher education. She has been involved in numerous research, development and evaluation projects in different roles. Her current research interest lies in approaching school community from the systems theory perspective to understand mechanism of educational change. She believes that collaboration and teamwork make her a researcher.
Dr Katja Vähäsantanen
Co-Investigator
Katja Vähäsantanen, PhD, dos. (adjunct professor), is an university researcher in the field of education and adult education at the Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her current research and teaching interests lie in the areas of professional identity, agency, learning, and emotions in work organizations, with a further interest in various methodological approaches applicable to investigate agency and learning in working life. Her recent publications include articles in Teaching and Teacher Education, European Journal of Teacher Education, Frontline Learning Research, Studies in Continuing Education, and Professional Development in Education.
University of Turku
Dr Tuire Palonen
Co-Investigator, University of Turku team lead
Dr. Tuire Palonen works as University Research Fellow for Teacher Education Department at University of Turku, Finland. Her interests have been circling in the context of learning and networked environments. Connections and ties between people, analyzed by the tools of Social Network Analysis (SNA), make a core for her special expert area, especially regarding learning in the school and out, the target group ranging from children at school up to senor workers for work organizations, all kind. Trying to develop visualizations to better understand complex structures of social communities, such as schools, and what happens there, have been one of her main interests recently.
Dr Tarja-Riitta Hurme
Senior researcher
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