International Guest Speakers

Georges Felouzis

Georges Felouzis is since 2007 a Full Professor in Education Policy at the university of Geneva (Switzerland), and the head of the Geneva Group of Education Policy Analysis (G.G.A.P.E). His research and teachings focus on efficacity and equity on Education, international comparisons in education, sociology of Educational policies, school inequalities, evaluation of school systems, tools and methods of sociology, quantitative data analysis. His current researches focus on the conception and implementation of public policies in education. He currently studies the implementation and the effects of three school reforms in Switzerland and the consequences of tracking system in school inequalities. In 2020, he co-edited a book on governance in education and published another one on school inequalities in France. At the methodological level, Georges Felouzis uses quantitative analysis to evaluate education policies in different national contexts, especially with the PISA data survey.

Didier Paquelin

Didier Paquelin, Professor of Leadership in Higher Education Pedagogy at Laval University (Quebec), has been conducting studies and research on the evolution of the learning experience in relation to the transformation of teaching and learning practices in a digital context for the past thirty years.

His work focuses on the analysis of the complexity of the processes of appropriation of digital devices for training and learning, in formal and non-formal contexts, in presence and at a distance, in an inclusive and empowering perspective, questioning the evolution of the university form in a post-pandemic context. He analyzes the interactions between pedagogical design, digital design and spatial design, aiming to understand the processes of greening practices. His work also concerns the use of digital traces and data to support learner engagement and perseverance.  He was an expert for 6 years with the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation on issues of pedagogy and digital. He contributed to the University of French Ontario project, particularly in the conception of the training offer and the spatial design.

Gilian Parekh

Dr. Gillian Parekh is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Disability Studies in Education within the Faculty of Education at York University. Gillian is cross-appointed with York's graduate program in Critical Disability Studies. As a previous teacher in special education and research coordinator with the Toronto District School Board, Gillian has conducted extensive system and school-based research in Toronto in the areas of structural equity, special education, and academic streaming. In particular, her work explores how schools construct and respond to disability as well as how students are organized across programs and systems.

Jo Van Herwegen

Dr Jo Van Herwegen is an associate professor at UCL’s Institute of Education and director of the Child Development and Learning Difficulties lab. Her research focuses on improving educational outcomes, using evidence from developmental psychology, educational neuroscience, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Jo has co-edited two books and has written over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Her research has been funded by a number of charities and research councils, including EEF, Nuffield Foundation, UKRI and ESRC.<br>She is currently Head of Research for the department of Psychology and Human Development at IOE, UCL’s faculty of Education and Society and member of the executive committee for the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI).