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Prof. Wilfried Admiraal
Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

 

Wilfried Admiraal is a psychologist and full professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions of Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. His research interests are in the social and emotional aspects of the teaching profession. Current projects relate to the attrition of early-career and late-career teachers, and schools as a safe and democratic learning and teaching environment.
 

He served as Director of the ICLON Graduate School of Teaching and Full Professor of Educational Sciences at Leiden University, and as President of the Netherlands Educational Research Association (VOR). He has also held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. He has been a Visiting Professor at Tongji University and Jiangsu Normal University in China, as well as universities in Vietnam, the UK, and Costa Rica. He has also held senior editorial positions, including Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Research and Editor-in-Chief of several international journals in educational research and technology.
 

More information on projects, boards, PhD supervision, and publications can be found on his personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/wilfriedadmiraal/.

Talk Title: Feeling Connected: Towards a Pedagogy of Engagement in Online and Hybrid Education

 

 

 

Prof. Kristof De Witte
KU Leuven, Belgium

 

Kristof De Witte is a full professor in Education Economics and Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, Belgium, and he holds the chair in ‘Effectiveness and Efficiency of Educational Innovations’ at United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Kristof De Witte is further a Fellow member of the CESifo Network. At KU Leuven he is vice-dean Research and Impact at the Faculty of Economics and Business; program director of the ‘Master in Economic Education’; and the founding member and director of the research group ‘Leuven Economics of Education Research’.

The research interests of Kristof De Witte comprise education economics, performance evaluation, and political economy. Among his more than 130 Web of Science publications, he published 113 papers in Q1-journals from which 41 papers in top-10% journals and 17 papers in top-5% journals. Thanks to a research grant portfolio of more than EUR 14M, he has a strong track record in leading and coordinating large research projects (including 3 Horizon Europe projects). Stimulated by interdisciplinary research funding, his work touches upon multiple disciplines which is reflected in publications in the leading journals from various academic fields, including ‘American Sociological Review’, ‘The Economic Journal’, ‘Perspectives on Psychological Science’, ‘World Development’, ‘Demography’, ‘Educational Research Review’, ‘Journal of Urban Economics’, ‘European Journal of Operational Research’, ‘Government Information Quarterly’, ‘Economics of Education Review’, and ‘Labour Economics’.

Kristof De Witte shows a deep commitment to public dissemination of his research. To increase societal impact, he is actively disseminating his research output to field journals, policy journals and media. De Witte’s work has been frequently featured in national and international media including CNN, the New York Post, the Washington Post, La Presse and El Pais. He served as a member of the ‘economics education’ and ‘financial literacy’ curriculum in Flanders. Multiple of his papers have had a documented impact on policy making through invited seminars at and citations by the European Commission, European Parliament, the OECD, the UK Parliament, and the Flemish Parliament. He contributed to the ‘European Commission Expert Group on quality investment in education and training’, is scientific coordinator of ENESET (the expert advisory body supporting the European Commission's DG EAC) and member of the OECD Research Advisory group on financial education. He is an associate editor for ‘International Transactions in Operational Research’, and former guest editor in four academic journals.

De Witte is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the ‘2021 Pioneer Award’ of KU Leuven (10,000 euro), the ‘2020 Laureate of the Academy’ award from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (10,000 euro) and the ‘2021 CELSA Service to Society Award’ (honorific), two international prizes for his doctoral dissertation (Biennial "Edgard Milhaud" Prize of CIRIEC – 10,000 euro; Annual “Hans-Jürgen-Ewers-Prize”– 2,500 euro), eight paper prizes, an award for his undergraduate thesis, and an award at the end of secondary education. De Witte was keynote speaker at 21 academic conferences. Under his supervision, 28 PhD’s were successfully defended. He served as assessment member in 45 PhD Committees. He spent academic visits at, among others, Columbia University, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and Aston University. His Google Scholar citation page counts more than 12,600 citations, an h-index of 59 and an i10-index of 153, while his ResearchGate Interest Score is among top 2% of all ResearchGate members.

 Talk Title: The laboratory of an education economist. Testing cures for disadvantaged students