ESF Research Conferences

ESF-LiU Conference

HIGHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Chaired by

CHAIR:

JohnBrennanE-Mail

The Open UniversityOpen University Business SchoolCentre for Higher Education Research and InformationMilton KeynesUnited Kingdom

http://www.open.ac.uk/

VICE-CHAIR:

ManfredPrenzelE-Mail

Universität KielLeibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften (IPN)KielGermany

Dates

15-19 September 2007

Location

Klosterhotel, Vadstena, Sweden
The conference will take place at Klosterhotel in Vadstena, Sweden. Vadstena is located in the south-eastern province of Östergötland, in a lovely natural setting on the shores of beautiful Lake Vättern, offering comfortable accommodation in a historic environment. During the Middle Ages, Vadstena was the location of a catholic monastery for monks and nuns of the Birgittine order and nowadays the conference center and hotel is largely located in the same medieval buildings that were once the monastery. With 5 600 inhabitants, Vadstena is 45 km from Linköping and 330 km from Stockholm. Group transportation will be arranged from/to Linköping airport, via Linköping train station, on arrival and departure days.

Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants

Higher education institutions are currently being subjected to a variety of pressures that seek, primarily, to enhance higher education’s contribution to the successful creation of so-called ‘knowledge economies’, together with, and receiving only slightly less emphasis, the achievement of greater equity and social justice. These pressures have led to a differentiation between ‘elite’ and ‘mass’ functions, to changing and differentiated notions of ‘graduateness’ and ‘expertise’, to changing relationships between research and teaching functions, to a shifting balance between pre-career and ‘lifelong’ learning, and to changing relationships between higher education institutions and the communities they serve - locally, nationally and internationally. Above all, these pressures have challenged traditional structures and cultures of governance and steering of higher education systems and institutions. These represent the issues and themes that will be addressed during the conference, informed by the reports generated by the ESF Forward Look on Higher Education. 
This conference will be of interest to academic and policy researchers in the field of higher education and to researchers in other relevant social science fields, e.g. science policy, regional development, governance, social equity.

Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions

There will be no short talks other than those listed on the final programme (see above). All other abstracts are accepted as posters.

Posters can be fixed with magnets and pins onto poster panels. Poster size should be no more than 100 cm high x 70 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.

Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide

Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...

GROUP TRANSPORTATION
Two buses will be arranged on arrival day from Linköping airport, via the Linköping train station, to Vadstena. The journey takes approximately 1 hour.

Bus departure times - Saturday 15 September:
- from Linköping airport: 16.00 – 18.00
- from Linköping train station: 16.15 - 18.15

Airport departure point: the meeting point is located just outside the small airport building. The coaches will have a sign in the window indicating “ESF Research Conferences” for easy recognition.
Train station departure point: the meeting point is located in the long distance bus terminal of the station. From the exit of the main building of the railway station, it is approximately 300 metres to the right.

Group transportation back to Linköping will be arranged in a similar way for the departure day. Bus departure times - Wednesday 19 September: 08.30 & 11.30 (to Linköping airport AND train station).

ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee (EUR 720) should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single (EUR 150) should be paid to Vadstena Klosterhotel. Should you wish to be put on waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Ms. Jean Kelly.

Conference Fees

Some grants available for young researchers to cover the conference fee and possibly part of the travel costs. Grant requests should be made by ticking appropriate field(s) in the paragraph "Grant application" of the application form.

Registration Form

All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 17 August 2007

ESF Contact

JeanKellyE-Mail

Conference Officer

Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2025
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 07-229 in any correspondence.

Partnership

This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University.

With Support from

Links of Interest

• European Association for Institutional Research (EAIR)
• European University Association (EUA)
• Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP)

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