New Article: Justice in Achievement Matters – P. Boyadjieva, P. Ilieva-Trichkova & V. Todorov

We are very delighted to announce that the new article Boyadjieva, P., Ilieva-Trichkova, P., & Todorov, V. (2024). Justice in Achievement Matters: The Fairness of Educational Opportunities and Active Citizenship. Social Sciences, Vol. 13, no. 1: 48. SJR (0.5), Q2, Open Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13010048, which was prepared within the JustEdu project, has been published: Social Sciences | Free Full-Text | Justice in Achievement Matters: The Fairness of Educational Opportunities and Active…

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New article by Raya Mihaylova: Digital Technologies, Social Disparities and Educational Inequalities

We are very delighted to announce that the new article by Raya Mihaylova is now out. It was prepared within the JustEdu project. Please see the details below: Mihaylova, R. (2023). Digital technologies, social disparities and educational inequalities: The case of electronic diaries in Bulgarian secondary schools. FACTA UNIVERSITATIS Series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, Vol. 22, No 2, pp. 107 – 126. https://doi.org/10.22190/FUPSPH2302107M Digital Technologies, Social Disparities And Educational…

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JustEdu Team Members Discuss Complexities of Social Justice in Higher Education at Mixed-Methods Conference

JustEdu team members Associate Professor Petya Ilieva-Trichkova and PhD candidate Asen Dimitrov took part in the International Conference Mixed Methods Research in Education: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Research of Kindergarten, Schools, Higher and Further Education at the Leibniz University Hannover. The conference took place on November 16 and 17, 2023, in Hannover, Germany. It was organised by the German Sociological Association (DGS) Section Education, DGS Working Group Mixed…

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Prestigious Award For Professor Pepka Boyadjieva

Professor DSc Pepka Boyadjieva, the JustEdu project leader, has been awarded the highest distinction of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – the “Marin Drinov” badge of honor on a ribbon for her high scientific achievements in the field of sociology of education! The award was presented to her by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Academician Julian Revalski, at a solemn meeting on the occasion of the National…

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“JustEdu” Project at the European Researchers’ Night 2023

The JustEdu project was presented during the initiative „European Researchers’ Night 2023” (Sofia, Bulgaria). The aim of the event was to popularise science among the citizens; therefore, the programme covered various activities in schools, meetings of students and citizens with scientists in research institutes and universities, as well as events in public urban places. Several leaflets were distributed with figures and tables demonstrating some of the results from the analyses.…

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Members of JustEdu Project at the 2023 HDCA Conference in Sofia

Members of the JustEdu project’s team presented 3 papers at the HDCA Annual Conference “Vulnerability, human development and cooperative re-building in turbulent times”, September 11-13, 2023 in Sofia, Bulgaria and took part in the Summer School on 8th-9th September 2023. A truly global event, the conference was hosted by the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with more than 300 participants from 60 countries from Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand,…

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Svetlomir Zdravkov at the ECER 2023 Conference: “The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research”

Svetlomir Zdravkov, postdoctoral student of the JustEdu project’s took part at the ECER 2023 Conference: The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research held in-person between the 22nd and the 25th of August 2023 in Glasgow, United Kingdom: ECER 2023, Glasgow | EERA (eera-ecer.de) This conference aimed to address the many different forms of diversity in educational research, be they conceptual, contextual or methodological, and explore the creation of a…

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Ralitsa Dimitrova and Asen Dimitrov presented at the annual CHER 2023 Conference

JustEdu team members Ralitsa Dimitrova and Asen Dimitrov took part in the annual conference of the Consortium for Higher Education Research (CHER). The event was hosted by the Institute for Higher Education Management at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business between August 29 and September 1. The theme of the CHER 2023 annual conference was Higher Education Institutions as Change Agents in Society: Perspectives on Adaptation and Impact.…

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XX ISA World Congress of Sociology ‘’Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”

Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, member of the JustEdu project’s team, took part in the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology ‘’Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies”, which took place between 25th June -1st July in Melbourne, Australia. The Congress was a unique space of scientific discussion in which more than 4500 participants took part (3024 of them were in-person). Petya Ilieva-Trichkova presented a joint paper with…

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Prestigious award for Professor Pepka Boyadjieva

Professor DSc Pepka Boyadjieva is the recipient of this year’s national award Pythagoras Award of the Ministry of Education and Science for established scientist in social sciences and humanities. The solemn ceremony was held at UNWE and was broadcasted on Bulgarian National Television on May 24 at 5:45 p.m. Congratulations to Professor DSc Pepka Boyadjieva for this prestigious and well-deserved award!  

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