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UPCOMING EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

Call for Papers! Pre-seminar of the FinEd Network for the FERA 2021 Conference on 24 November
The FinEd Network will organize a pre-seminar for the FERA 2021 Conference on 24 November 2021 in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä and FERA. The deadline for abstracts is 31 October. More information can be obtained at Annual seminar – FinEd.

ITK Doctoral Consortium 1 December 2021
The FinEd network, together with ITK Doctoral Consortium, will organize an article workshop in Aulanko, Hämeenlinna, 1 December 2021. More information is available at ITK Doctoral Consortium 2021 – ITK-konferenssi.

NEWS

In fall 2021, FinEd will conduct a survey of doctoral students at its member universities. The aim is to determine the needs of doctoral students regarding the courses offered nationwide. The survey will be sent out to doctoral students during October 2021 through contact persons at member universities.

FinEd took part in the MEC2021(Media Education) conference, which was held in Rovaniemi, Lapland, on 28 September–1 October 2021. The conference was organized by the Media Education Hub of the University of Lapland, which was also celebrating its 20th anniversary. This international conference brought together 56 researchers from around the world. The keynote speakers were Professor Hilda Borko, Stanford University, US; Professor Pier Cesare Rivoltella, Milan Catholic University, Italy; and Professor Hyeon-Seon Jeong, Gyeongin National University of Education, South Korea.

FinEd has proceeded international activities of the network. New senior researchers have been invited to join FinEd’s mentor pool. FinEd also took part, for the first time, in organizing the EERA Summer School together with the University of Jyväskylä, EERA and the Finnish Educational Research Association. One hundred doctoral students participated in the international summer school, which was held on 14–16 June 2021. For more information, go to EERA Summer School.

NEWS

The FinEd Network successfully organized “Writing by the hill”, an online article workshop for the member units’ doctoral researchers, on 24–25 March 2021. The workshop consisted of three expert lectures and writing sessions guided by mentors. In the first, Professors Kai Hakkarainen and Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen from the University of Helsinki lectured on the scientific writing process and academic knowledge practices. Professor Yngve Nordkvelle from the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences spoke about writing and the publishing process from the perspective of an editor at Seminar.net’s academic journal. Additionally, Professor Päivi Atjonen from the University of Eastern Finland presented research on Finnish dissertations in education. This research has also been published in Kasvatus (2/2020).

The FinEd Network will participate in the EERA Summer School on 14–16June 2021. One hundred doctoral students will also take part in this international summer school, organized by the University of Jyväskylä, EERA and the Finnish Educational Research Association. More information: EERA Summer School

UPCOMING EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

A new, open lecture series on the study of digitalization
The DigiSociety research community of the University of Eastern Finland will make open lectures on digitalization research available to researchers every Friday at 1–3 pm from 7 May – 11 June 2021. This lecture series will address fresh and multidisciplinary research perspectives and methods. More information: http://www.fined.fi/uusi-avoin-luentosarja-digitalisaation-tutkimuksesta-ihmistieteissa/

Call for papers! ITK Doctoral Consortium in Aulanko, 1 September 2021
The ITK Doctoral Consortium will be held in collaboration with the FinEd Network in Aulanko, Hämeenlinna on 1 September 2021. The deadline for abstracts is 31 May 2021. More information HERE:

Call for papers! MEC2021 in Rovaniemi, 28 September – 1 October 2021
The 2021 Media Education Conference (MEC2021) will be held in Rovaniemi on 28 September – 1 October 2021. The theme of the conference is “Media Education in Autumn Colors”. The conference is organized by the Media Education Hub of the University of Lapland, which is also celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The deadline for abstracts is 24 May 2021. More information: http://www.fined.fi/call-for-papers-mec-2021/

Save the date! FinEd Network pre-seminar in Jyväskylä, 24 November 2021
The FinEd Network will organize a pre-seminar for the FERA 2021 Conference on 24 November 2021 in cooperation with the University of Jyväskylä and FERA. The pre-seminar will be announced in more detail in fall 2021.

MEET THE FINED MENTORS

The FinEd Network’s Mentor pool will be updated with national and international senior researchers who are available to share their expertise at events and conferences organized by the network. Meet the mentors: http://www.fined.fi/en/mentor-pool/

This is a FinEd Newsletter. Newsletters are sent to all members of the FinEd Network via contact persons in each member university and published on the FinEd website.

Happy Holidays and New Year 2021!

EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS AFFECTED ACTIVITES IN THE FINED NETWORK
The year 2020 has been exceptional due to the COVID-19 epidemic, which has also affected activities in the FinEd network. In particular, the organization of an article workshop and the Pre-seminar of the FinEd Network as a part of the FERA 2020 Conference were reorganized as online activities.

FINED PRESEMINAR WAS HELD AS ONLINE SEMINAR IN 14TH OF DECEMBER
FinEd Preseminar was held as an online seminar in 14th of December. The theme of the seminar was ”Digitalisation in education: From various learning contexts to methodologies”. In the seminar, Dr. Mona Moisala gave a talk about brain research, Postdoctoral Researcher Mikko Meriläinen spoke about digital gaming, and University Lecturer Satu-Maarit Frangou about her doctoral research process. A total of 21 doctoral students participated in the seminar. They represented the universities of Helsinki, Eastern Finland, Lapland, Jyväskylä, Tampere and Turku, and Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius. The program and the slides of the key talks can be found from the FinEd website: Annual seminar – FinEd

IN SPRING 2021 FINED NETWORK ORGANIZES TWO WORKSHOPS
In spring 2021, the FinEd network organizes two workshops for doctoral students which have been postponed from fall 2020. ”Writing by the hill” article workshop will be held in March 24th – 25th 2021 exceptionally as an online workshop. 22 doctoral students have been accepted to participate the workshop in the fall 2020. If you are interested in the upcoming workshop and did not apply for participation in fall 2020, you can ask for any cancelled places from the 1^st of February 2021 from research coordinator Marjaana Kangas (marjaana.kangas@ulapland.fi)

The second workshop will be organized in cooperation with ITK Doctoral Consortium 14th of April 2021 ITK Doctoral Consortium 2020 – ITK-konferenssi (itk-konferenssi.fi). In the workshop doctoral students have an opportunity to present their papers and receive comments on their research from other researchers. Deadline for abstracts is 14th of February 2021. Registration is found HERE.

MEET THE FINED MENTORS
The Mentor pool is a group of senior researchers from the member units of the FinEd Network who have pledged to advise the doctoral researchers within the Network. Meet the Mentors: http://www.fined.fi/en/mentor-pool/.

This is a FinEd Newsletter. Newsletters are sent to all members of the FinEd Network via contact persons in each member university and published on the FinEd website.

Greetings from the Head of the FinEd Network, Professor Kirsti Karila

The coordination of the FinEd Network was transferred to the University of Tampere since the beginning of the present year. As a new head of the network, I would like to thank the earlier coordination unit, the University of Turku, for the valuable contribution. Professor Risto Rinne and coordinator Sanna Niukko have been the key people in the coordination. We are lucky to have both of them also in the  new board of the network. Thus, we can expect the transition to be fluid.

In  2018, we will continue to implement all the well-tried activities like the annual pre-seminar and the mentor pool. In addition, we aim to improve our international connections with the similar networks from other countries.  The other issue we will focus is the communication. As a part of this project, we have renewed our webpages.  The address of the new site  is www.fined.fi.

The network forms and develops as a joint project of the doctoral students and their supervisors. We hope that all of you could sit down for a while and think about the network activities. How would you like to improve the network collaboration? Please, let coordinator Anneli Lehtisalo (anneli.lehtisalo@uta.fi) and head Kirsti Karila (Kirsti.karila@uta.fi) to know your ideas and initiatives.

The Annual Seminar of the FinEd Network, November 14, 2018, University of Tampere

The annual seminar of the FinEd Network will be organized as a pre-seminar to the FERA 2018 Conference, November 15−16 in Tampere. Further information on the seminar will follow in the next newsletter.

 

The Analysis on Educational Doctoral Dissertations 2010-2016

Päivi Atjonen and Sanna Niukko have conducted an analysis on educational doctoral dissertations of three Finnish universities from years 2010-2016. In the analysis, altogether 171 works were examined, and their form, scientific approaches, research materials, sources and grades were analyzed. Atjonen and Niukko end their article with suggestions for considerations which could be used to develop doctoral dissertations and good practices. The article ”Väitöskirja tohtorin kisällinnäytteenä: analyysi kolmen yliopiston kasvatustieteen alan väitöskirjoista vuosilta 2010−2016” was published in Koulutus hallinnassa. Juhlakirja professori Heikki Silvennoisen täyttäessä 60 vuotta 23.2.2018 (2018).

Upcoming Events and Conferences

Interactive Technology in Education (ITK) Conference 2018

Workshop for researchers 11 April 2018, Hotel Aulanko, Hämeenlinna. Further information: https://www.itk.fi/.

Research career – a living dream? Eurodoc Conference 18–19 April 2018 University of Tampere

The conference is to focus on research careers and employability, doctoral training, international and intersectoral mobility, working conditions, equality, well-being and mental health, social impact of  science and innovations, as well as researchers’ role in society from the perspective of early career researchers. Speakers represent Finnish and international actors research and higher education such as the European Commission, Science Europe, EUA-CDE, Academy of Finland, Euraxess, Mela, MCAA/MFCA, FUURT, universities and members of Eurodoc. Further information: http://www.eurodoc.net/conference-agm-2018.

Early Childhood Education, Families and Communities. European Early Childhood Education Research Association EECERA 2018 Conference, 28−31 August 2018, Budapest, Hungary

Early bird registration ends May 31st 2018. Further information: http://www.eecera2018.org/.

Theories and theoretical concepts in the higher education research process. The fifth Summer School on Higher Education, 13th – 14st of August 2018, University of Jyväskylä

Call for Papers: Deadline for applications 15th of April 2018
Keynote speaker: Prof. Anna Kosmützky, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Evening workshop convenor: University lecturer Johanna Kiili (PhD), University of Jyväskylä, Finland

The summer school addresses the big decisions faced by all PhD students in the course of their PhD: the choice of the theories and theoretical concepts and their match to the chosen methodologies. The summer school provides PhD students an opportunity to present and get feedback on their own research as well as to meet senior researchers and other PhD students from the field of higher education research. The language of the summer school is English.

Participants of the summer school (18-20 persons) will be accepted based on relevance of the abstract to higher education research and the topic of the summer school as well as quality of it. Participation in the summer school is free of charge. Accommodation is offered free of charge for one night in two person room in hotel Alba, close to the summer school venue.

Important dates:
The deadline for the applications is 15th April 2018
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by 15th of May 2018
The participants are asked to submit the full papers (3-5 pages) by 1st of August 2018

Application form, instructions on writing an abstract and a paper as well as the updated program can be found on our web page: https://korkeakoulututkimus.fi/summerschool2018. This year summer school is followed by SANORD conference: https://www.jyu.fi/edupsy/en/collaboration/international-co-operation/sanord2018. The Summer School is organised by Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER) and Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Finland (CHERIF).

Assessment and Learning Analytics. EARLI SIG 1 Conference 29.-31.8.2018, University of Helsinki

The conference is organized by special interest group 1 of European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI). In the University of Helsinki the arrangements will be taken care of by the Centre for Educational Assessment (CEA).

The Keynote speakers are Samuel Greiff, Dr., Professor in the University of Luxembourg, Benő Csapó, Professor of Education at the University of Szeged, and Dragan Gašević PhD, Professor and Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The registration is open. Early bird –prices until April 30th.

The Summer School will take place two days before the main conference (August 27-28) at the same location as the main conference. Applications are requested to be sent to earlisig1@gmail.com (before April 1, 2018). The application should be submitted as a single PDF-file in e-mail attachment. Further information: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/2018-conference-of-european-association-for-research-on-learning-and-instruction-special-interest-group-1.

Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research? The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 3.-7.9.2018, Free University Bolzano, Italy

Early bird registration ends May 15th 2018. Further information: http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-2018-bolzano/.

Virtue, Truth and Beauty in Education. FERA Conference 15-16 November 2018, University of Tampere

The theme of the conference is Virtue, Truth and Beauty in Education. The task of education is to create hope and trust in the value and significance of life. The goal of education requires an understanding of what humans are and what they are like, what we consider valuable in human growth, and from what grounds and which sources this value is determined. Each generation must resolve their relationship with the problem of humanity and construe their relationship to the essence of education: virtue, truth and beauty. Our time has to reflect on the issues related to valuable human life in the midst of global vicious problems. What challenges do these problems pose on education? At the FERA Conference on Education, these challenges will be discussed and solutions are tried to find to them.

The keynote speakers are the eminent philosopher-educationalist Professor Zhang Hua from Nanjing Normal University of China and Artist-Director Marita Liulia from Finland. Further information: https://events.uta.fi/feraconference2018/.

Transnational Curriculum Inquiry: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World. 6th World Curriculum Studies Conference, 9.-12.12.2018, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Call for Papers ends March 31st 2018. Further information: https://www.iaacs2018.info/.