DPU

Aarhus Universitets segl

Speakers

Christine Antorini

Christine Antorini was appointed Minister for Children and Education on 3 October 2011. She holds a Master of Arts in Communication Studies (in Public Administration), Roskilde University, 1994.

Selected member history

  • Member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) for the Social Democratic Party in North Zealand’s greater constituency (Nordsjællands Storkreds) from 15 September 2011.
  •  Member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) for the Social Democratic Party in North Zealand’s greater constituency (Nordsjællands Storkreds) from 13 November 2007 to 15 September 2011.
  • Member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) for the Social Democratic Party in “Søndre” greater constituency from 8 February 2005 to 13 November 2007.

Selected positions of trust

  • Member of Royal Greenland’s Advisory Board from 2005 to 2006.
  • Member of the German Marshall Foundations selection committee from 2005.
  • Member of ”Foreningen Frie Børnehavers Fond” from 2006.
  • Member of “VL 13” from 2006.

 


Jacqueline Barnes

Jacqueline Barnes is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, based at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues.  She has taught and conducted research in the USA and the UK. Her current research interests are: evaluation of early intervention programmes related to children’s health and development and parenting; community and neighbourhood characteristics as they relate to family functioning and children; and the use and impact of child care in the early years. Professor Barnes was one of the directors of the National Evaluation of Sure Start, and most recently she directing the formative evaluation of implementing the Nurse Family Partnership programme in 10 pilot sites in England.


Tarjei Havnes

Tarjei Havnes holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oslo. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at ESOP, Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo and a senior researcher at Statistics Norway. His research centers on identifying causal relationships from observational data, and is particularly concerned with how large-scale childcare and kindergarten programs may affect children's development and outcomes into adulthood.    


Jan Peeters

Jan Peeters is the coordinator of the Research and Resource Centre for Early Childhood Education and Care of the Department of Social Welfare Studies at the Ghent University (Belgium). He has been promoting several innovative transnational Early Childhood Education and Care action-research projects since 1992 and has written numerous articles. He has, for many years, given presentations on international conferences on professionalism, quality, gender and diversity in the early years. Together with other international colleagues, he founded the European DECET network on diversity and professional development in ECE in 1998. He is the author of 'The Construction of a New Profession' (2008) on professionalism in ECE in New Zealand, France, England and Denmark. He is co-founder (2001) of the European magazine Children in Europe, a joint publication in 17 languages, which is distributed in 17 countries. He is a board member of the international Step by Step Association, an Eastern European and Central Asian ECE Network of 27 countries.

Together with Prof. Dr. Vandenbroeck, Katrien Van Laere, Prof. Dr. Mathias Urban, Dr. Arianna Lazzari  (East London University), he has set up the European Commission study on Competencies in Early Childhood Education (CoRe research project 2009- October 2011).


Bente Jensen

Bente Jensen is head of research and project manager of the extensive research project VIDA “Knowledge-based Efforts for Socially Disadvantaged Children in Day-care”, which examines how activities in general day-care that seek to enhance the learning and well-being of children through social inclusion can help to improve, particularly but not only, socially disadvantaged children’s possibilities in life through.
From 2005 to May 2009, she was head of research and project manager of the ASP project; Action Competences in Pedagogical work with Socially Endangered Children and Youths – effort and effect”.

Moreover, Bente has taken part in several interdisciplinary research projects and research teams focusing on inequality and children’s well-being. She is part of the research program about social inheritance at the Danish National Centre for Social Science (SFI). She has contributed to various knowledge databases about social inheritance, social inequality, as well as recent research in the efforts and their effect on socially disadvantaged children in a municipal context. 


 

Edward Melhuish

Edward Melhuish is Professor of Human Development and Director of the Institute for the Study of Children, Families & Social Issues at Birkbeck, University of London.  He has undertaken research in 12 countries and has over 200 publications.  He has contributed to the formulation of social policy for young children and has been a scientific advisor in Norway, Finland, Portugal, Australia, South Korea, and Chile, as well as for the European Commission and OECD. His research has influence early childhood policy in the UK and other countries.


Mette Gørtz

Mette Gørtz is head of Centre for Survey and Survey-Register Data and a senior researcher at the Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI). She has recently conducted research in the consequences of preschool quality for child cognitive outcomes. Mette has a Ph.D. in economics from University of Copenhagen. Her research interests also cover labour economics, health, family economics, ageing and applied microeconometrics.