Advisory Board | Educare

The advisory board consists of renowned researchers from various fields of educational sciences who have been strategically recruited to maintain high quality and the journal’s broad scope of educational research. These board members have an advisory function where they provide information regarding educational practices in various fields outside of Sweden.

Members of the advisory board

	*Jeffrey Buckley* Lecturer in Research Pedagogy, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Ireland My research expertise is largely in technology and engineering education. I focus on studying how people learn with particular focus on the role of spatial ability in this process. A second area of interest I hold is in educational assessment where I conduct research on the use of comparative judgement for assessing creative student work. Finally, I conduct meta-research with a view towards improving research methodology in technology education. See the official webpage for further information
	*Joke Dewilde* Professor of Multilingualism in Education, University of Oslo, Norway My research interests centre around issues related to minoritized multilingualism across educational settings, including multilingual literacies and identity, multicultural school and community events as a means for inclusion, and multilingual teachers. I adopt a linguistic ethnographic approach. See the official webpage for further information
	*Wendy Fox-Turnbull* Associate Professor in Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand Wendy Fox-Turnbull is Associate Dean-Academic at the University of Waikato, and has been a member of a number of Ministry of Education advisory roles for technology education. She is the editor of Australasian Journal of Technology Education, is the Editorial Board of International Journal of Work Integrated Learning and co-editor European Journal of STEM Education. Her research special interests include authentic learning in technology education, the place of women in technology related STEM careers, the role and nature of effective conversations in learning and teaching and learning approaches for the 21st Century. She is a registered and certified primary teacher. See the official webpage for further information
	*Graham Hall* Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Northumbria University, UK My background and ongoing professional interests lie within language teaching and language teacher education, including classroom-centred research, and in finding sustainable ways for teachers to develop understandings of what takes place in their own classrooms. I am interested in how teachers develop their own theories about language teaching/learning, and the implications of this for their teaching as well as the implications of Critical Pedagogy for language teaching. See the official webpage for further information
	*Ambissa Kenea Boru* Professor of Education, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Professor Ambissa Kenea Boru has a PhD in education. With theoretical slanting towards critical perspectives, his research interest include education and diversity, curriculum studies, teacher education, minority/disadvantaged group education and educational change. He has led and supervised several research projects including research works of PhD candidates. His voluntary professional service include supporting development projects that intervene to address local development problems. See the official webpage for further information
	*Anthony Mpisi* Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South Africa My research interests include multicultural education, particularly in a post democratic South Africa, diversity education, social justice education and teacher education, with special focus on the preparedness beginner teacher to teach. See the official webpage for further information
	*Saila Poulter* Senior Lecturer in Religious and Worldview Education, University of Helsinki, Finland My research interests include religious education as a school subject, children’s freedom of religion, citizenship, and teacher professionalism. I am also specialized in matters concerning early childhood education, children's grief, and existential resilience of young people. See the official webpage for further information
	*Marianne Schüpbach* Professor of Primary Education, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany My research interests are situated in the area of educational quality and effects of all-day in Germany and comparable extracurricular activities in Switzerland and in international comparison. I am currently conducting the BMBF joint project GeLeGanz on educational success and social participation of socially educationally disadvantaged students with a migration background in all-day schooling (GeLeGanz). In other current research projects, I am investigating, among other things, programs and their effects in all-day schooling, successful conditions for multi-professional cooperation in all-day schools, and the professionalization of educators at all-day primary schools. Since 2017, I have been Chair of WERA-IRN Extended Education, since 2023 called WERA TASK FORCE Global Research in Extended Education, a global research network of the World Education Research Association that focuses on education that goes beyond the classroom – extended education. See the official webpage for further information
	*Pia Sundqvist* Professor of English Didactics, University of Oslo, Norway Pia Sundqvist (PhD) research interests are at the intersection of applied linguistics and educational sciences and include informal language learning with a focus on extramural English, English language teaching, and assessment of L2 oral proficiency. She is the current president of the Swedish Association of Applied Linguistics. See the official webpage for further information