Nordic Fields of Higher Education

Network meeting V
Sociology of Education, University of Turku
November 21–22, 2013

Programme

THURSDAY 21.11.2013

Pharma City building, seminar room 2 (Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4/Österlånggatan 4)
Chair: Sakari Ahola, RUSE

9:30-9:50 Coffee

9:50-11:00 Institutional, regional and classwise transformations of Danish professional training Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen, Roskilde University (30 min including discussion)

Short break (10 min)

Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education. The structure of disciplinary co- occurence in students' educational trajectories Tobias Dalberg, Uppsala University (30 min including discussion)

11:00-12:00 Lunch at Unica (same building)

1 h NFHE PROJECT: Country presentations 12:00-14:00 (2 hours) Organisational perspectives on HE in the Nordic countries (30 min per country including discussion). Sweden: Mikael Börjesson, Uppsala University Norway: Agnete Vabø, NIFU Denmark: Jens Peter Thomsen, University of Copenhagen Finland: Sakari Ahola & Juha Hedman, RUSE

Short break (5-10 min)

14:10-16:10 (2 hours) Presentations on recruitment aspects (30 minutes per country including discussion) Sweden: Mikael Börjesson, Emil Bertilsson, Tobias Dahlberg, Uppsala University Norway: Tanja Askvik & Håvard Helland, HiOA Denmark: Jens Peter Thomsen, University of Copenhagen Finland: The importance of parents' field of education for university students' field choices - a second dimension of inequality of educational opportunity? Sakari Ahola, RUSE

Short break (5-10 min)

About 16:10-17:10 NFHE project business meeting: Time for discussing about the NFHE project issues between the project members (e.g. framework data and panel analysis data) (60 min)

19:00- Dinner for all at Restaurant Torre (Linnankatu 18/Slottsgatan 18)

FRIDAY 22.11.2013

Chair: Juha Hedman, RUSE

09:30-11:45 Results from a survey to academic staff in Norway Per Olaf Aamodt & Agnete Vabø, NIFU (60 min including discussion)

Short break (15 min)

Information on the future network activities (60 min): Elisabeth Hovdhaugen, Mari Elken and Agnete Vabø tell about the Nordic Field conference (in Oslo) next autumn (45 min) Mikael Börjesson and Agnete Vabø tell about the "signals" (15 min)

11:45-12:45 Lunch at Unica (same building) 1 h

12:45-14:50 Entrepreneurship in higher education - impacts on graduates' entrepreneurial intentions and activity Liv Anne Støren, NIFU (30 min including discussion)

Students transition to and retention at first-year STEM university programmes Lars Ulriksen, University of Copenhagen (40 min including discussion)

Coffee break (15 min)

Limits of Meritocracy. How fields of study and gender segregation affect social stratification in Finland Irene Prix, RUSE (30 min including discussion)