Graduate Student–Led Research Conferences as Sites of Past, Present, and Future Dialogue in Education Research

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This panel highlights graduate student–run research conferences as spaces that remember disciplinary histories, address present challenges, and imagine futures for education research. Featuring organizers from Stanford GSE’s “SWAYWO: So, What Are You Working On?” Conference and the Graduate Student Research Conference (GSRC) at University of Ontario, panelists will discuss the origins, purposes, and evolving practices of these student-led events. We explore how such conferences emerged from historical gaps in access, how they foster supportive and intergenerational dialogue in the present, and how they model inclusive and interdisciplinary futures for scholarly exchange. By centering graduate students’ voices, this session aligns with AERA’s call to reimagine education research as a process of futuring rooted in critical engagement with past and present contexts.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Marjorie M. Hahn, Stanford University

Panelists

• Gabriela López, Stanford University

• Melissa Lewis, Stanford University

• Marcos Rojas, Stanford University

• Carolyn Oei, University of Toronto - OISE