The World Education Research Association (WERA) has announced the launch of two additional new International Research Networks (IRNs) for 2025. The WERA IRN initiative brings together global teams of researchers through virtual communication and other channels to collaborate in specific areas of international importance. The two new networks join the current IRNs, contributing to the vision of WERA. The purpose of IRNs is to synthesize knowledge, examine the state of research, and stimulate collaborations or otherwise identify promising directions in research areas of worldwide significance. IRNs are expected to produce substantive reports that integrate the state of knowledge worldwide and set forth promising research directions.
The two new IRNs will prove to be valuable additions to WERA’s growing body of international research networks. WERA is excited to see these newly formed IRNs enrich the field of education research and lead to worthwhile collaborations among scholars with shared research interests all over the world. International collaboration in education research brings much added value to the field. WERA looks forward to these networks connecting scholars on issues of international significance, while also serving as an important model for international research collaboration.
The two new 2025 IRNs include:
IRN Title: Inclusive Development of Sustainable Education for All: Trauma-Informed Responsive
Practices in a Polycrisis World (TIRPP)
Conveners: Gregor Ross Dørum Maxwell, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway; Olja Jovanović, University of Belgrade, Serbia; Michelle Proyer, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Ines Alves, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom and Ilektra Spandagou, University of Sydney, Australia.
IRN Title: State of knowledge on innovative methods and instruments for educational research oriented to social justice in Mexico, Spain, and Chile. Analysis and proposals
Conveners: Lya Sañudo Guerra, Secretaría de Educación Jalisco, Mexico; Martha Vergara Fregoso, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; Juan Pablo Catalán Cueto, Universidad Andrés Bello de Chile, Chile; Gonzalo Jover Olmeda, Universidad Complutense, Spain and Francisco M. Aliaga, Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For further details on the IRNs, including contact information for network conveners, visit the
WERA website at International Research Networks (IRNs).
ABOUT WERA
Founded in 2009, WERA is an association of national, regional, international, and specialty research associations dedicated to advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA’s initiatives are global in nature, transcending what any single association can accomplish in its own country, region, or area of specialization.