Keynote: Investigating outreach and access in adult learning in light of the covid-19 crisis

Keynote 19 November 10.15-10.45 AM CET
Speaker: Professor Ellen Boeren, University of Glasgow, UK.

Get to know Prof. Ellen Boeren

Ellen Boeren is Professor in Education at the University of Glasgow. She obtained her PhD in Educational Sciences in May 2011 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She moved to Glasgow in July 2019, having spent 7 years and 2 months at the Moray House School of Education at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Boeren conducts (European) comparative research and has a special interest in survey methodology. In recent year, she has participated in a wide range of lifelong learning projects, including the H2020 project Encouraging Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive and Vibrant Europe, an Erasmus+ project on New Adult Competencies and a Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship with the OECD. Together with Professor John Field, she edited UNESCOs Fourth Global Report of Adult Learning and Education. In 2017, she won the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Adult Education Literature for her monograph ‘Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context: an Interdisciplinary Theory’.

Register by 18 November

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