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.
The Committee also works with science communication and regularly carries out different activities to disseminate research results and make them accessible, and to highlight topical issues in the area.
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 |
|---|---|---|
Vibeke Grøver | Professor of Pedagogy | University of Oslo, Norway |
Cecilia Bjursell | Professor of Pedagogy and Director of Encell | Jönköping University |
Helen Melander Bowden | Professor of Education | Uppsala University |
Sven Bölte | Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Science | Karolinska institutet |
Mikael Börjesson | Professor at Department of Education | Uppsala University |
Ylva Hofvander-Trulsson | Professor of aesthetic didactics | Stockholm University of the arts |
Christian Lundahl | Professor of Education | Örebro University |
Johan Lundin | Professor in Informatics | University of Gothenburg |
| Jonas Vlachos | Professor of Economics | Stockholms University |
Magnus Österholm | Professor of Mathematics/Professor of Mathematics Education | Umeå University/Mid Sweden University |
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