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Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets
Speaker: Patrick Agte (Stockholm School of Economics)
Topic: Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets
Date and time: Friday, August 28, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
Classrooms as workplaces. The impact of student composition on teacher health
Speaker: Jonas Vlachos (Stockholm University)
Topic: Classrooms as workplaces. The impact of student composition on teacher health
Date and time: Friday, September 25, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
Vem är normal? Diagnoser som livsmening
Speaker: Fredrik Svenaeus (Södertörns Högskola)
Topic: Vem är normal? Diagnoser som livsmening
Date and time: Wednesday, September 30, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
Evidence in education: How metascience can improve the quality of evidence syntheses in educational psychology
Speaker: André Kalmendal Brun (Linnéuniversitetet)
Topic: Evidence in education: How metascience can improve the quality of evidence syntheses in educational psychology
Date and time: Friday, October 2, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
The school, the discipline and protection against degrading treatment
Speaker: Maria Refors Legge (Uppsala University)
Topic: The school, the discipline and protection against degrading treatment
Date and time: Friday, October 9, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
From isolation to calibration–strengthening teachers' assessment literacy and self-efficacy in STEM
Speaker: Eva Hartell (KTH)
Topic: From isolation to calibration–strengthening teachers' assessment literacy and self-efficacy in STEM
Date and time: Friday, October 16, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
Large-Scale Support of Parents’ Investments in their Children: Results from a Series of Field Experiments
Speaker: Simon Calmar Andersen (Aarhus University)
Topic: Large-Scale Support of Parents’ Investments in their Children: Results from a Series of Field Experiments
Date and time: Friday, October 23, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
Understanding Policy Changes - The Mixture Model of Politics
Speaker: Søren Serrtizlew (Aarhus University)
Topic: Understanding Policy Changes - The Mixture Model of Politics
Date and time: Friday, November 27, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
When School Makes a Difference: Successful School Cultures in Structurally Disadvantaged Areas
Speaker: Carina Carlhed Ydhag (Stockholm University)
Topic: When School Makes a Difference: Successful School Cultures in Structurally Disadvantaged Areas
Date and time: Friday, December 4, 12:00–13:30
Location: B706, Stockholm School of Economics
Past Seminars 2026
January 23 — Emma Neuman (MUCF): Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Inequality and Youth Living Conditions
February 13 — Ben Domingue (Stanford Graduate School of Education): The Item Response Warehouse as a tool for improving educational and psychological measurement
March 6 — Melanie Ehren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Context, mechanisms and outcomes of accountability policies in Education; a comparative review of 14 systems
April 24 — Martina Jordan (Örebro Universitet): Motivational Interviewing as a relational tool in schools
May 8 — Jonas Linderoth (University of Gothenburg): Hands-on, evidence-informed strategies for better teaching – What we always needed but never got
May 15 — Eos Trinidad (UC Berkeley): Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education
May 22 — Xuemeng Wang (Uppsala University): How Do Teachers’ Teaching Styles Affect Students’ Outcomes?
May 29 — Leah Natasha Glassow (University of Gothenburg): Educational inequality and the distribution of teacher competence: teacher sorting, mobility, and professional development
June 5 — Isabella Strömberg (Stockholm University): Cycles of Disruption: An Ethnographic Study of Disruptivity in a Swedish Secondary School
June 12 — Marcus & Anna Danielsson (Södertälje and Järfälla Municipalities): School improvement from both classroom and system-level perspective
June 17 — Kevin Fabulich (University of Florida)
Past Seminars 2025
January 10 — Ola Helenius (University of Gothenburg): Factors of influence when implementing pedagogical innovation in school mathematics
January 17 — Anna Sjögren (Uppsala University): Migration inflow and the school performance of incumbent students
February 7 — Sara Utku (University of Gothenburg): Educational leadership within Swedish municipal adult education
March 7 — Julian Johnsen (University of Bergen): Contagious classrooms: Peer effects in mental health
March 18 — Heidi Backman (Åbo Akademi University): Culture of trust as a success factor for education
March 21 — Alessandro Toppeta (Stockholm University): The effect of schooling on young adults' non-cognitive skills
April 4 — Tomi Koljonen (University of Liverpool): Dissolving digitalization: Technological settlement dynamics in the Finnish education system
April 11 — Fabian Gunnars (Mid Sweden University): Smartbands, artificial intelligence, and special educational needs
April 25 — Said Hassan (Nuffield College, Oxford): A Muslim school advantage? Evidence from a natural experiment
August 29 — Håkan Eilard (Karlstad University): State governance of schools in a decentralized school system
September 12 — Hanne Knudsen (Aarhus University): Playful transformation? Investigating public-private synergies in education
September 19 — Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen (Jyväskylä University): EDUCA Flagship: Research-based solutions for challenges in education
September 26 — Jakob Westergren (Uppsala University): Enacting competition? Upper secondary schools as competing actors
October 24 — Freja Morris (Lund University): Tenacious documents: Documentation in Swedish compulsory schools
November 14 — Carl-Henrik Adolfsson (Linnéuniversitetet): Data-based school improvement in Swedish local school systems
November 26 — Jennifer Nelson (University of Illinois): Friends at work: Network mechanisms in teachers' work in US high schools
December 5 — Mari Rege (University of Stavanger): Teaching coping skills in schools: Evidence from a field experiment
December 12 — Petter Berg (Stockholm School of Economics): Schooling for Profit: Long-run effects of private providers
Past Seminars 2024
March 15 — Linda Evans (University of Manchester): Is educational leadership (still) worth studying, or is it a myth we have reified?
March 22 — Timur Uman (Jönköping University): Managerial discretion of superintendents in Swedish schools
May 17 — Marie Wiberg (Umeå University): Socioeconomic status and Swedish students' achievement
September 20 — Inger Enkvist (Lund University): Sverige behöver reformera lärarutbildningen i grunden
October 4 — Lorenzo Neri (University of St. Andrews): The organizational economics of school chains
October 18 — Lydia Kwak (Karolinska Institutet): Intervening and implementing changes in school work environments
October 29 — Matias Mørk (Aarhus University): Evaluating teacher impacts under endogenous mobility
November 5 — Fredrik O. Andersson (Indiana University): Philanthropic giving in US K-12 education
November 8 — Björn Högberg (Umeå University): Changing associations between low achievement and mental health or mortality in Sweden, 1990–2018
November 15 — Jeffrey Casely-Hayford (Karolinska Institutet): Teachers' motivation to stay at their workplace
November 22 — Eva Hoff (Lund University): Self-image, wellbeing, and mental health issues in school students
November 29 — Mona Holmqvist (Lund University): Education for students with ADHD and autism
December 13 — Susanne Wiborg (University College London): Teachers' unions and academic performance
Past Seminars 2023
January 17 — Angelo Kostis (Umeå University): Digital resilience and emerging infrastructural relations
February 3 — Karin Edmark (Stockholm University): Long-run effects of changes in the local supply of academic upper secondary education
March 24 — Lene Foss (Jönköping University): Responsible leadership in times of wicked problems
March 31 — Marius Busemeyer (University of Konstanz): Digitalization, education systems, and the welfare state
April 14 — Bengt Jacobsson (Södertörn University) & Olivier Borraz (SciencesPo Paris): Public governance during the Covid pandemic in Sweden and France
October 13 — Gabriella Kindström (Uppsala University): The impact of school closures on local communities
October 20 — Fredrik Zimmerman (University of Borås): Why do boys fail in school, and what can we do about it?
October 27 — Dong Nguyen (Durham University): Leadership for teacher retention
November 17 — Anders Jönsson (Kristianstad University): Going gradeless
November 24 — Per Engzell (University College London): Within-school achievement sorting in comprehensive and tracked systems
Past Seminars 2022
January 18 — Mats Alvesson (Lund University): Skolinspektionen och granskandets vedermödor
February 25 — Iman Dadgar (Stockholm University, SOFI): School autonomy and student achievement in Sweden
April 1 — Magnus Henrekson & Johan Wennström (IFN): Dumbing Down — The crisis of quality and equity in Swedish schools
May 20 — Philipp Lergetporer (TUM): Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment
June 3 — Bengt Jacobsson (Södertörn University): Organizing the state: Reforms and governance in the Swedish school system
November 18 — Andreas Ryve & Jannika Lindvall (Mälardalen University): Reforming mathematics instruction at scale
November 25 — Una Tellhed (Lund University): Gender and technology: Social psychological perspectives
December 9 — Jan Löwstedt (Stockholm University): School management as meta-practices of teaching practices
Past Seminars 2021
September 24 — Stefan Arora-Jonsson & Maria Blomgren (Uppsala University): Three loci of organizational identity work
November 19 — Bo Rothstein (University of Gothenburg): Controlling corruption: Education and the social contract approach