- Country of residence/work
- Bulgaria
- Geographical scope
- Czechia
- Denmark
- European Union
- Hungary
- Poland
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Switzerland
- Level of education focus
- Adult education
- Higher education
- Non-formal and informal learning
- Vocational education and training (VET)
- Thematic areas covered
- Education-to-work transitions, education and labour market
- Lifelong learning
- Skills development
- Methodological expertise
- Qualitative methods
- Stakeholder consultations
- Organisation
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Contact
Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests are in the field of higher education and lifelong learning with an emphasis on educational inequalities and social justice, the university as an institution, and school-to-work transitions. She received the 2022 Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for the book (co-authored with Petya Ilieva-Trichkova): Adult Education as Empowerment: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan.