DESCRIPTION
Education Policy Futures (EPF) is a webinar series and research network committed to knowledge sharing and collaboration among stakeholders interested in education research, analysis and change.
CONVENORS
Andrew W. Wilkins, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Brad Gobby, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Rita Nikolai, University of Augsburg, Germany
Amanda U. Potterton, University of Kentucky, US
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 2022-26
November 2026. Title: TBC. Speakers: Francesca Peruzzo, University of Birmingham, and Emiliano Grimaldi, University of Naples Federico II.
October 2026. Title: TBC. Speaker: Tomas Esper, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
August 2026. Title: TBC. Speaker: Lucas Cone, University of Copenhagen.
June 2026. Title: TBC. Speaker: Hanne Knudsen, Aarhus University.
May 2026. Title: TBC. Speaker: Sofia Viseu, University of Lisbon.
April 2026. Title: TBC. Speakers: Patrick Bailey and Bronwen Jones, University College London.
March 2026. Title: TBC. Speaker: Greg Thompson, Queensland University of Technology.
8 January 2026. Governing through proto-practice: Fostering (post)digital school development. Speakers: Mathias Decuypere, Zurich University of Teacher Education, and Antti Saari, University of Tampere.
11 December 2025. The merits and future of policy enactment research. Speaker: Craig Skerritt, Marino Institute of Education.
17 November 2025. European Union teacher policy since the 2000s: The trajectory of a bridging issue field. Speaker: Tore Sorensen, University of Glasgow.
19 September 2025. Destroying the education system from within: School policy in Argentina under Milei. Speaker: Vanesa Romualdo, University of Buenos Aires.
13 May 2025. Place in policy: The topographical in education policy making and movement. Speakers: Marcia McKenzie, University of Melbourne, and Alex Wilson, University of Saskatchewan.
4 February 2025. Polygenic scores as bio-policy instruments: Education genomics and experimental interventions. Speaker: Ben Williamson, University of Edinburgh.
23 January 2025: Meet the editors: Journal of Education Policy. Speakers: Antonio (Ono) Olmedo, University of Exeter, and Andrew W. Wilkins, Goldsmiths, University of London.
21 January 2025. Constructing educational leadership as a technique of government for policy reform. Speaker: Richard Niesche, University of New South Wales.
29 October 2024. The EdTech industry and its investors. Speaker: Janja Komljenovic, University of Edinburgh.
20 August 2024. Ideological Disempowerment of Neoliberal Education. Speaker: Kwok Kuen Tsang, Education University of Hong Kong.
13 June 2024. The problematisation of lesson planning in Australian education: Commercialising teachers’ curriculum work. Speakers: Meghan Stacey, UNSW Sydney, and Nicole Mockler, University of Sydney.
20 May 2024. Book launch: Keywords in education policy research: A conceptual toolbox (Policy Press, 2024). Speakers: Andrew W. Wilkins (Goldsmiths, University of London), Steven J. Courtney (University of Manchester), and Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University).
25 March 2024. Participation as a technology of governance. Speaker: Glenn C. Savage, University of Melbourne.
16 January 2024. The New Limits of Critique: Figuring the Critical in Education Policy Studies. Speaker: Tony Carusi, Massey University.
2 November 2023. Transgressing social justice leadership discourses in current education policy and practice through the lens of Actor-Network Theory. Speaker: Denise Mifsud, University of Bath.
16 October 2023. The racialized policy geographies of artificial intelligence and EdTech. Speaker: Kalervo N. Gulson, University of Sydney.
19 June 2023. New landscapes and logics of competition in education: Geography, demography and equity in English education policy. Speaker: Antonio Olmedo, University of Exeter.
9 May 2023. The Challenges to Discretionary Power at the Street-Level: The Case of Education. Speaker: Mark Murphy, University of Glasgow.
26 January 2023. Book launch: Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education. Speaker: David I. Backer, West Chester University.
1 December 2022. Thinking about education differently: Education as self-formation, as commoning activity and without schools. Speaker: Jordi Collet-Sabé, University of Vic-UCC.
28 September 2022. Autonomous partnership schools | kura hourua as political rupture in public education. Speaker: Ruth Boyask, Auckland University of Technology.
9 March 2022. Resilience and Digital Educational Privatization: Lego and the Quantification of Play. Speaker: Kenneth J. Saltman, University of Illinois.
BECOME A MEMBER
To join our members list and receive invites to future events, please email Andrew Wilkins (andrew.wilkins@gold.ac.uk).
Follow us on twitter @EPFutures
Andrew W. Wilkins 
