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 |
|---|---|---|
Fritjof Sahlström | Professor of Education | Helsinki University, Finland |
Eva Alerby | Professor of Education | Luleå University of Technology |
Helen Melander Bowden | Professor of Education | Uppsala University |
Andreas Fejes | Professor of Adult Learning | Linköping University |
Mia Heikkilä | Professor of Child and Youth Studies focusing on pre-school | Stockholm University |
Ylva Hofvander-Trulsson | Professor of Artistic Didactics | Lund University |
Mona Holmqvist | Professor of Educational Sciences focusing on research into schools and the teaching profession | Lund University |
Cecilia Lundholm | Professor of Education focusing on teaching and learning in social sciences subjects, | Stockholm University |
Johan Lundin | Professor in Informatics, focusing on learning | University of Gothenburg |
| Daniel Pettersson | Professor of Education | University of Gävle |
Per-Åke Rosvall, | Professor Professor of Pedagogic Work | Umeå University |
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