The Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER)
and The Doctoral School, University of Sussex, UK
with the Postgraduate School of Educational Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden
invite you to the international doctoral seminar
Diversity, Democratisation and Difference: Theories and Methodologies
27th – 30th January, 2014
Conference Centre, Bramber House, University of Sussex
This free four day event includes:
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Lectures and workshops on theory and methodologies to interrogate diversity, democratisation
and difference in social science research
Opportunities to present your own work and receive feedback from international experts
Networking, knowledge exchange and social events
Keynote speakers include:
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Professor Nafsika Alexiadou - Methodological and Theoretical Issues in linking the Supranational,
the National and the Institutional
Professor Valerie Hey - Post-post-structuralism? The Sensual Turn or Thinking Affects
Professor Carolyn Jackson- Laddism in Higher Education
Dr Anna Lindqvist - Catching the Transient. Research Design in Dance Education.
Professor Louise Morley - The Knowledge Economy: Democratisation, Distributive Justice or
Domination?
Dr John Pryor - Perspectives on Visual Methods
Professor Kirk Sullivan - Education as Linguistic Exclusion
Professor Gaby Weiner - What’s in a Story? Getting the Best out of Interviews, Personal Accounts
and Life Histories
Dr Björn Åstrand – Perspectives on Democracy as a Purpose for Education
Only 25 places are available for Sussex students. Please book early!
Send a one page summary of your research, including a 150 word abstract and a 150 word reflection
on what you hope to get out of the programme, to Simone.Robinson@sussex.ac.uk
by 31st October 2013.
Successful applicants must commit to the whole four day programme
– including related social events.