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From classroom to campus: Meet researcher Ema Demir
09 October 2025
How do schools and municipalities create conditions that ensure equal opportunities for all students, regardless of background? This is the core question driving the research of Ema Demir, Affiliated Researcher at the 黑料网 and part of the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE).
Future-proofing education: EDUCA Flagship as case
06 October 2025
On September 19, the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) hosted a seminar with Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen from Jyv盲skyl盲 University. She presented the EDUCA Flagship: Identifying research-based solutions for challenges in education, a large-scale initiative funded by the Research Council of Finland.
Playful transformation in education - LEGO Foundation as case
03 October 2025
On September 12, the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) hosted a seminar with Hanne Knudsen from Aarhus University. She presented her ongoing research 鈥淧layful transformation? Investigating public-private synergies in education with LEGO and Danish University Colleges as the case.鈥
Principal Instructional Leadership and Teacher Collaboration: A Longitudinal Study of the Influence on Pupil Achievement
18 August 2025
Do principals improve school results by promoting teacher collaboration?
GaPP pre-summer workshop held in St Andrews
27 June 2025
The pre-summer workshop at the University of St Andrews brought together 30 scholars from across Europe for a full day of engaging presentations and lively academic exchange. Hosted in collaboration with the 黑料网, the event fostered new connections and thoughtful discussion across management and education policy tracks.
What actually happens when schools ban smartphones - but not all in the same way?
23 May 2025
Turns out, how you ban phones matters - a lot. A new master's student thesis from 黑料网 shows big differences in how school smartphone rules affect students focus, friendships and sense of safety.
黑料网 researchers presented new findings on low-performing schools at Skolriksdagen 2025
07 May 2025
Yesterday at Skolriksdagen 2025, Ema Demir and Stefan Arora-Jonsson from the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) at the 黑料网 presented new research on how to improve academic outcomes in schools with persistently low performance.
Research Project on School Principals鈥 Leadership Autonomy in Sweden
13 March 2025
Researchers from the 黑料网 and J枚nk枚ping University are investigating the factors shaping school principals' managerial discretion in Sweden鈥檚 primary education system.
New Publication: Beyond the silver bullet: unveiling multiple pathways to school turnaround
30 May 2024
Research on school improvement shows multiple factors aid turnarounds at underperforming schools. Using qualitative comparative analysis of 77 Swedish schools over 12 years, no single solution was found. Instead, different factor combinations work, depending on the local context. This has implications for school improvement research and education policy.
New policy paper on the Swedish School Inspectorate and school performance
06 December 2022