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Responsible for allocating research funding
The Committee for Educational Sciences decides which calls are to be made within educational sciences. They also decide on which applications will be awarded grants. They have review panels to help them examine and prioritise the applications submitted to the Swedish Research Council, before the Committee takes a decision. It is the Committee that appoints members to the review panels.
Following up and evaluating research in the area
The Committee follows up, evaluates, and produces strategies for the research area, for example through research overviews. In this work, the Committee is assisted by both national and international experts. The Committee also works on increasing the internationalisation of the research area and contributes to the funding of Nordic collaboration programmes within the framework of NordForsk.
Each year, the Committee organises the Results Dialogue Conference, which gives researchers the opportunity to present and discuss research findings within the area of educational sciences.
Composition of the Committee
The Committee has eleven members representing different scientific disciplines of relevance to research in the educational sciences. The Swedish Research Council appoints the chair and members. Seven of them are appointed based on proposals from higher education institutions, and three are appointed based on proposals from the research funding bodies Formas (Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning), Forte (the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare), and Vinnova. The term of office is three years and members can be reelected for a further three years.
The Committee meets six times a year.
Name | Title | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Petter Aasen (chair July 2016-June 2019) | Professor of Educational Sciences and Vice-Chancellor | University of Southeast Norway, Norway |
| Camilla Bardel | Professor of modern languages and language education | Stockholm University |
Cecilia Bjursell | Professor of Pedagogy and Director of Encell | Jönköping University |
Sven Bölte | Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Science | Karolinska institutet |
Mikael Börjesson | Professor | Department of Education, Uppsala University |
Johan Lithner | Professor | Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Umeå University |
Christian Lundahl | Professor of Education | Örebro University |
Annica Löfdahl Hultman | Professor of Pedagogical Work | Karlstad University |
Monica Rosén | Professor | Department of Science and Mathematics Education, University of Gothenburg |
| Robert Thornberg | Professor of Education | Linköping University |
Christina Segerholm | Professor of Education | Umeå University |
PublISHED ON 25 May 2018
UpDATED ON 11 May 2020
