Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER)

Umea Conference: 27-30 Jan 2014

This four-day conference was co-hosted by CHEER and the Doctoral School, University of Sussex, UK, with the Postgraduate School of Educational Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden.

 Open each day to see recordings of presentations given, and other useful information.

Day 1: Monday 27th January, 2014

Professor Valerie Hey, University of Sussex

Professor Valerie Hey: Post-post-structuralism? The Sensual(ist) Turn or Thinking Affects [PPT 667.00KB]

Professor Nafsika Alexiadou, Umeå University, Sweden

Professor Nafsika Alexiadou: Linking the supranational, the national and the institutional levels: Some methodological and theoretical issues [PPT 1009.50KB]
Nafsika Alexiadou & Linda Rönnberg: Publishing in academic journals: An example from education inquiry [PPT 1.44MB]

Professor Carolyn Jackson, Lancaster University

"They don't seem to really care, they just think it's cool to sit there and talk": Laddism in Higher Education
Professor Carolyn Jackson: Laddism in Higher Education [PPTX 1.23MB]

Day 2: Tuesday 28th January, 2014

Professor Kirk Sullivan, Umeå University, Sweden

Dr John Pryor, University of Sussex

Dr John Pryor: Perspectives on Visual Methods [PPTX 550.60KB]
Dr John Pryor: Understandings of Education in an African Village [PDF 1.99MB]

 

Day 3: Wednesday 29th January, 2014

Professor Louise Morley, University of Sussex

Professor Louise Morley: The Knowledge Economy - Democratisation, Distributive Justice or Domination [PPT 10.04MB]

Gaby Weiner, Visiting Professor, University of Sussex (also at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Edinburgh)

Professor Gaby Weiner: What's in a story? Getting the best out of interviews, personal accounts and life histories [PPT 9.75MB]

Dr Anna Lindqvist, Umeå University, Sweden

Day 4: Thursday 30th January, 2014

Dr Björn Åstrand, Umeå University, Sweden

Dr Björn Åstrand: Researching aspects of education in times when diversity, democratization and difference matters [PPTX 104.84KB]

Photo Gallery - Diversity, Democratisation and Difference: Theories and Methodologies