Saturday, 22 August 2015

Rethinking students: ideas and new research approaches

I am delighted to say that I will be attending the 6th International Conference on “Rethinking students: ideas and new research approaches" to be held in October at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow.



I will present the paper "Methodological reflections on challenges of conducting student surveys in universities in developing countries". The paper deals with the manifold challenges that I encountered as principal investigator / research leader for the HERANA student surveys I conducted with colleagues from Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda, between 2010-2014, at the premier universities in these countries.



I am the more looking forward to the conference as my dear colleague Manja Klemencic is one of the keynote speakers and the conference is hosted by the Centre for Institutional Studies of NRU-HSE which is the 'home base' of Igor Chirikov, who is now at UC Berkeley working on SERU-International at the CSHE there.