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Dr Alis E. Oancea

PhD, PGCert, MSc, FHEA
Research Fellow

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Tel.: +44 (0)1865 286198 (as of 23 June 2009  telephone will be +44 (0) 1865 612813)
Email: alis.oancea@ageing.ox.ac.uk

Dr Alis Oancea is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ageing, and holds a joint fellowship with the Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She studied social sciences (sociology, psychology, education and management) and philosophy, has a PhD in epistemology and research evaluation and is approaching completion of a second PhD in Oxford, in philosophy of education research.

 

Research interests

Dr Oancea’s interests are in the fields of research policy, research evaluation, philosophy of social research, and education and lifelong learning.

Recent funded research:

·          Quality of applied and practice-based research (with John Furlong, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, 2004-2005)

·          Education research capacity in the UK (British Educational Research Association, 2003-2004)

·          Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training in England and Wales, phase 1 (2004-2006) and 2 (2006-2008).

·          Practices and criteria for research evaluation (2000-2005, University of Bucharest)

·          Criticisms of education research in the UK in the 1990s (2002-2006, University of Oxford)

·          Inclusive educational environments in communities (UNICEF, 2000-2002)

·          Transition in post-communist European countries (European Social Foundation, 2004-2005)

Her current work in the Institute focuses on research quality and research evaluation in gerontology and education research. She also collaborates with Dr George Leeson in developing the Education, Technology and Lifelong Learning research strand of the Institute. From 2004 to 2008 she was Assistant Editor of Ageing Horizons, and edited a special issue on education and lifelong learning in March 2008.  She is a member of the EAST (Eastern-European Ageing Societies in Transition) network facilitated by the OIA.

 

Professional commitments

Dr Oancea’s teaching activity includes social theory, philosophy of educational research, and strategies for research at the University of Oxford (working with MSc and DPhil students); undergraduate tutorials on education reform, at the University of Oxford;  and philosophy of education, educational theory and pedagogy at the University of Bucharest.

 

She is Associate of the Evidence Network at the School of Social Science and Public Policy, King's College London, member of the Oxford Centre for Sociocultural Activity Theory, and a member of the British Educational Research Association, European Educational Research Association, Society of Educational Studies, and Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

 

She is Research Associate of the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE).

 

She serves as an expert reviewer to the FP6/ FP7 of the European Commission, to the European Science Foundation, and the Wellcome Trust, and acts as peer reviewer for the British Educational Research Journal, Oxford Review of Education, Research Papers in Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Evidence and Policy, Scottish Review of Education, Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, among others.

 

Recent selected publications

Recent and forthcoming articles
  • (2009) Philosophy of education – its contribution and status since 1988. Oxford Review of Education (A. Oancea and D. Bridges, invited, forthcoming).
  • (2009) Educational research and policy in the United Kingdom - implications for South African higher education research. In: South African Journal of Higher Education, 23(2) (invited, forthcoming).
  • (2008) The importance of being thorough: On systematic accumulations of "what works" in education research. Journal of Philosophy of Education (A. Oancea and R. Pring), 42(s1), pp. 4-15.
  • (2008) The promise of lifelong learning. In: Ageing Horizons, 8, pp. 1-3.
  • (2007) From Procrustes to Proteus: Trends and practices in the assessment of education research. In: International Journal for Research Methods in Education, 30(3), pp. 245-270.
  • (2007) Research policy and education research: Accountability phobia, or a clash of interpretations? In: Research Intelligence, 100, pp. 20- 21.
  • (2007) Tailored suit or straitjacket? A framework for analysing research evaluation. Scientific Bulletin, Pitesti, July.
  • (2007) Expressions of excellence and the assessment of applied and practice-based research (Alis Oancea and John Furlong). In: Research Papers in Education, 22(2), pp. 119 - 137
  • (2007) Editorial. Assessing quality in applied and practice-based research in education: continuing the debate (John Furlong and Alis Oancea). In: Research Papers in Education, 22(2), pp. 115 - 118.

Recent and forthcoming books

  • (2009) Looking to the Future: 14-19 Education and Training in England and Wales (with: G. Hayward, A. Hodgson, J. Johnson, E. Keep, R. Pring, G. Rees,  K. Spours, S. Wilde). London: Routledge (forthcoming).
  • (2008) Standardisation and versatility in research assessment. In: A. Besley (Ed) Assessing the Quality of Research in Higher Education. Rotterdam: Sense (forthcoming).
  •  (2007) Assessing quality in applied and practice-based research in education (with John Furlong). London, New York: Routledge.

 Please click on the attachment below for a more detailed list of publications.

 

 

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