Congratulations to
@EEMacLeod
for being elected as a member of the ESERA Executive Board! Emily is a PhD student at the UCL Institute of Education in London, England where she researches young people’s aspirations in science.
We are pleased to announce that the
#ESERA2023
proposal submission platform is now live!
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Cappadocia in 2023.
Congratulations to the newly elected Board members whose terms start at the end of the
#ESERA2023
conference: Lucy Avraamidou, President; Gjalt Prins, Treasurer; Maria Evagorou, Digna Couso and Antti Laherto.
Are you ready for 695 papers, 54 symposia, 2 panels, 20 workshops, 150 posters, 3 plenary speakers, 2 community plenary speakers? We are expecting close to 1100 participants! See you all soon in Cappadocia at
#ESERA2023
🎉
In light of Covid-19 pandemic worldwide and uncertainties about travel, the ESERA Board has decided that the next conference in Braga, Portugal from 30th August to 3rd September 2021 will take place in a hybrid fashion including physical and virtual components.
ESERA is planning a workshop to provide information and support for writing proposals for the ESERA 2023 Conference to be held in Cappadocia, Turkey. Please sign up at the following link if interested.
The
#ESERA
Executive Board has met in Barcelona the last two days to discuss the ongoing business of the association. Thanks to Marione Espinet for hosting us!
Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology will deliver a plenary talk at the
#ESERA2023
conference in Cappadocia, Turkey.
ESERA Virtual Doctoral Network Plenaries Open to All Doctoral Students!
We are pleased to inform you that the plenary presentations of the ESERA Virtual Doctoral Network will be open to all doctoral students to view live. For more information:
ESERA Board members on the flight from Istanbul to Cappadocia to attend the conference. This was a special flight full of ESERA conference participants!
#ESERA2023
ESERA 2021 Conference Update
Considering the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the related uncertainty around planning and travel, the ESERA Board has decided to hold an exclusively virtual conference. More information:
The ESERA Board is delighted to announce that following the voting process, Dr Giuilia Tasquier from University of Bologna, Italy has been elected as a member of the ESERA Board. Her term will start with the Board meeting in February 2022 for a term of 4 years.
@GiuliaTasquier
Professor Jomo Mutegi, President of NARST presenting at
#ESERA2023
.
#ESERA
has had numerous years of fruitful collaborative efforts with
#NARST
including reciprocal doctoral student exchanges at summer schools
@NARSTorg
Next ESERA Summerschool will take place in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany from July 3rd-8th 2023 hosted by the Institute for Science Education of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau in Landau. Deadlines/Students: January 31, 2023; Staff/January 15, 2023
We are saddened to hear about the passing of Professor Koos Kortland. He was a former Treasurer of ESERA. We will share an obituary in due course. Condolences to his family, students and colleagues.
The
#ESERA2023
Local Organising Committee has been busy developing the conference website. Here is a sneak preview of the graphic design work on the conference logo.
Gültekin Çakmakci and Fatih Tasar, Co-Chairs of the Local Organising Committee visiting the venue of the
#ESERA2023
conference in Cappadocia as preparations continue.
Emily MacLeod and Prof. Lucy Avraamidou will deliver an ESERA Community Plenary talk on "Identity-based research in science education: Past, present, and possible futures of the research field and the ESERA community" at the
#ESERA2023
conference.
Getting ready and waiting for you! — with Gultekin Cakmakci, Fatih Tasar and Kibar Sungur Gül at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi Kongre ve Kültür Merkezi.
The
#ESERA2021
Conference is starting tomorrow! We look forward to welcoming you. Apart from prerecorded talks, we’ll have live discussions, plenary talks and social activities! Moreover, the platform will be available until September 30 so you can watch later & revisit for more!
Sad news about Professor Norman Lederman
It is with a heavy heart that we write to you with the sad news of the passing of Norman G. Lederman. Norm passed on the morning of February 26, 2021 after a brief and unexpected illness. For more information:
Recall: ESERA Conference 2021 Call for Proposals
It will be organised by the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) from 30 August to 3 September 2021.
More information:
ESERA Conference 2021 Call for Proposals
The ESERA 2021 Online Conference will be organised by the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) from 30 August to 3 September 2021. For more information:
ESERA Early Career Researcher Travel and Professional Development Awards 2021
ESERA is offering two types awards, of up to 1.000 euro to either travel to research venues or use the award towards their professional development. More information:
They call for papers for the
#ESERA2023
conference will be circulated soon. Watch this space! Picture from the Board meeting today to discuss the conference platform.
Koos led the coordination of the
#ESERASummerSchool2022
in Utrecht, Netherlands. He and his team worked hard over a year to make the experience informative, pleasant and useful for our
#doctoral
students. ESERA was fortunate to have him as a leader of the summer school.
The
#ESERA
Board met yesterday to discuss the various portfolios of the association including the preparations for the 2023 conference in Cappadocia, Turkey.
From the opening ceremony of
#ESERA2023
Conference in Cappadocia! Speeches by Gultekin Cakmakci, Conference President; Ali Fidan, Governor of Nevsehir; and President of ESERA, Sibel Erduran.
📕We are delighted to share that the
#ESERA
Book series “Contributions from Science Education Research” has been accepted for indexing in
#Scopus
!
@SpringerEdu
25 years of science education research and scholarship in a community of friends and colleagues worldwide! Join us for ESERA's 25-year anniversary webinar on November 10th, 16.00-18.00 Central European time. Webinar link: Programme:
ESERA is offering travel awards of up to 1.000 euros each to enable ESERA members who are currently enrolled in doctoral studies or who were awarded their doctorate after 1st January 2019 to travel to research venues.
Planning meeting for
#ESERA2021
conference due to take place in a hybrid fashion, physically in Braga, Portugal & virtually on an online platform! New challenges requiring creative solutions for our organisation. We are looking forward to new ways of conferencing in
@ESERA_org
In order to support the doctoral students who had signed up to be part of this summer school, ESERA has decided to hold a Virtual Doctoral Network event during the same timeframe as the original summer school from June 28-July 4.
The conference program is available at:
The International Scientific Committee THANK YOU for the great work in putting together the ESERA 2023 Conference Programme with the highest accuracy, diligence, and remarkable effort.
@esera2023
Join the
#ESERA
community for a discussion about the new competence framework by the European Commission to support the learning of environmental sustainability. 🌿
📆 Only a few days before the
#ESERASummerSchool
2023 begins! Looking forward to welcoming new doctoral students to the
#ESERA
family in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany from July 3rd to 8th hosted by the Institute for Science Education of the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau.
With this
#ESERA2021
conference, we say goodbye to Ellen and Marianne who have each served on the Executive Board for a 4-year term. They have made a great contribution to ESERA. We will miss them.
Are you getting excited about the
#ESERA
Summer School? The School will be held in the city of Utrecht in The Netherlands from August 29 to September 3, hosted by the Freudenthal Institute at the University of Utrecht.
The ESERA Board met today, with the addition of our new members
@GiuliaTasquier
and
@EEMacLeod
. Among the many issues discussed is our members’ of suggestions for topics and speakers they might like to see at our webinars. A short survey will be circulated. Watch this space!
Invitation for ESERA Conference referee
The University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, is organising the online ESERA Conference 2021: Fostering scientific citizenship in an uncertain world, from 30 August to 3 September 2021.
More information:
ESERA is inviting applications for travel fellowships aimed at supporting
#doctoral
students and early career researchers
#ECRs
. See the link for further information.
Wednesday morning from 10.45-11.45 am Lisbon time, we have a session honouring Professor Norman Lederman whose research on nature of science made a significant contribution to the ESERA community and beyond. Join us to reflect on and mark Professor Lederman’s work at
#ESERA2021
.
C. P. Constantinou - Designing for relevance in science education research: examples from formative assessment.
Thanks to Prof. Constantinou and ESERA!
The
#ESERA2021
conference was attended by 922 participants, mostly from Europe. Three countries (Croatia, The Philippines and Zimbabwe) were represented for the very first time in the history of our organisation.
Wow! So many PhD students attending our three amazing plenaries (Michael J. Reiss, C. P. Constantinou, Renee Schwartz and Lucy Avraamidou). Wish we could accommodate all of you but numbers to the LIVE event are limited. Hurry!
Watch this space!
Do you want to learn more about how to publish? Then come along to the sessions at 15.00-16.00 Lisbon time today, Tuesday, to meet editors of international science education research
#journals
. There will be 8 journals in 4 rooms. Drop in for a chat with the
#editors
.
#ESERA2021
ESERA is calling for nominations for a doctoral student Executive Board member following a voting process to amend the ESERA Constitution about the Board membership. For more information:
Call Opening! Do not miss it! ESERA Early Career Researcher Travel Awards 2019
ESERA is offering travel awards of up to 1.000 euros each. The deadline for sending expressions of interest is December 15th, 2018. For more information go to
ESERA Community Plenary Lecture by Lucy Avraamidou & Emily McLeod
Chair: Henriette Tolstrup Holmegaar
Identity-based research in science education: Past, present, and possible futures of the research field and the ESERA community
NARST-ESERA summer school scholarships
The NARST International Committee will be offering two doctoral students, up to 2,500USD each to participate in the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) summer school.