Keynote: Nelli Piattoeva 

Dr Nelli Piattoeva is an Associate Professor at Tampere University, Finland. She completed her post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Social research in Tampere in 2012-2014 and in 2017-2018, she was a visiting scholar at the Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Piattoeva is based at the New Social Research programme – an innovative interdisciplinary social science research unit funded by the Academy of Finland at Tampere University. Her research agenda on the entanglements between education and politics is roughly split between three main domains: first examining formal education as a means of politics and governance of societies, for example, the relationship between education and nation-building or the infiltration of digitalization and datafication into public education; second she analyses the changing means of governing formal education such as the introduction of performance targets and numerical assessments; third she is interested in the practices of knowledge production on education and the linkage between these practices and governance and (geo)politics, for instance, the impact of Cold War ideologies and stereotypes on knowledge-making. Nelli’s primary geographical focus of research is Russia and the post-Soviet space.

Discussants: 

• Inés Dussel is Full-Time Researcher at the Department of Educational Research, CINVESTAV, Mexico, a leading public research institution in Latin America. She got her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Director of the Education Area, Latin American School for the Social Sciences (Argentina). She has published extensively on schooling, pedagogy, visual and digital media. She has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Melbourne, Paris 8, and Humboldt-zu-Berlin. She is President of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). In 2018 she received the Humboldt Research Award in Germany, in recognition of her research trajectory.

• Jeremy Knox is Associate Professor of Digital Education at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and an Official Fellow of Kellogg College. His research interests include the relationships between education, data-driven technologies and wider society, and he has led projects funded by the ESRC and the British Council in the UK. Jeremy has previously served as co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, and currently co-convenes the Society for Research in Higher Education Digital University network. His published work includes AI and Education in China (2023), Data Justice and the Right to the City (2022), The Manifesto for Teaching Online (2020), Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive Education (2019), and Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course (2016).

Introduction and Chair:

The event will be introduced by the Policy Futures Program director, Katja Brøgger, and chaired by Professor Susan Robertson from Cambridge University.