Nordic Fields of Higher Education
Research network
The research network Nordic Fields of Higher Education main aim is to enforce, support and further develop ongoing research in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland on recruitment patterns to higher education and student mobility drawing on large scale data registers and surveys. The network is funded by NordForsk during the period 2011-2014.
The network gathers 50 researcher from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and France and is administered by the research group Sociology of Education and Culture (SEC) at Uppsala University.
The network is also closely link to the research project, Nordic Fields of Higher Education Structures and Transformations of Organization and Recruitment, 1985-2015 (NFHE), funded by NordForsk during the period 2013-2015.
Contact
Coordinator:
Mikael Börjesson, Associate Professor, Sociology of Education and
Culture (SEC), Uppsala University,
mikael.borjesson@edu.uu.se
Coordination assistant:
Emil Bertilsson, PhD-student, Sociology of Education and Culture
(SEC), Uppsala University,
emil.bertilsson@edu.uu.se
Network committee:
Mikael Börjesson, Associate Professor, Sociology of Education and
Culture (SEC), Uppsala University,
mikael.borjesson@edu.uu.se
Osmo Kivinen, Professor, the Research Unit for the Sociology of
Education (RUSE), University of Turku,
osmo.kivinen@utu.fi
Jens Peter Thomsen, Post.Doc., Dept. of Sociology, University of
Copenhagen, jpt@soc.ku.dk
Agnete Vabø, Deputy Head of Research,
Nordic Institute for studies of Innovation, Research and
Education (NIFU), Oslo, agnete.vabo@nifu.no