International Networking and Diverging Interests in Doctoral Education Research Communities Organized through Scientific Communication.

• In Event: Leadership and Faculty Development in International Education

Abstract

The purpose is to map an international landscape of doctoral education research and to understand how this landscape is organizing itself in nodes and nets re-producing or changing educational research in different global contexts. What are important research problems - such as improving competencies, or counteracting injustices? Which intellectual traditions or societal interests are put forwards in different geopolitical contexts? To answer such questions a combination of Actor Network Theory and bibliometric analyses was used. Publications were identified in Web of Science and analysed by means of Vosviewer. Sets of networks representing different problems were identified. They were interpreted in terms of geopolitical positioning, intellectual framing, and problem representations. These results are important for future international research cooperation.

Authors

• Sverker Lindblad, Gothenburg University

• Barbara Gross, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano