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Podcast:<\/h3>\n

Forskningspodcast fra UiT Norges arktiske universitet, desember 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Presentations as invited speaker:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2025): \u201cBalancing Challenges and Opportunities: Education for Sustainable Development in the Norwegian School System\u201d, invited speaker, International Symposium on Education for Sustainable Development in the New Era, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Sept 2025<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2022): \u201cEducation, Togetherness and Robust Community in Precarious Times\u201d, key note, NERA Nordic Education Research Association congress, Iceland June 2022.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDK (2021). \u201cWhy rural matters \u2013 perspectives from Norway.\u201d International expert panel, National Congress on Rural Education in Canada (NCREC): \u201cRural Education Beyond Borders:\u00a0 Reframing the Conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, Unn-Doris K. (2021). \u201cExperiences from doing education research on geographical differences in different national contexts.\u201d International Emerging Rural Scholars Summit, International Symposium for Innovation in Rural Education, Perth, Scotland.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, Unn-Doris K. (2019): \u201cLocal voices in school governance \u2013 perspectives from Norway\u201d. Key note, International Conference on School Governance: Trends, Challenges and Countermeasures. Shanghai, China, Nov 2019.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, Unn-Doris K. (2018): \u201cWhat does place of residence mean for the educational orientations of girls and boys?\u201d Presented at the Research Days (Forskningsdagene<\/em>) in Oslo, Sept 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2018): “Parental Involvement in Upper\/Senior Secondary Education – Challenges, Controversies and Changing Power Relations”. Key note, International Conference on Senior Secondary Education in an Age og Massification: Trends, Aims and Challenges. Shanghai, China, June 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2018): “Spatial Inequalities in Education – Opportunity Structures and the Difference Place Makes”. Key note, Local Summit of the Arctic Council\u2019s SDWG project “Teaching for Diversity and Inclusion in Arctic – the local context and global perspectives”, Troms\u00f8, Norway, May 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2018): “Home-school cooperation in teacher education in Norway.” Presented at INET – International Network of Scholars\u2019 Roundtable, New York,\u00a0 USA, April 2006.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2018): “Home-School Cooperation \u2013 Perspectives from a Norwegian Context”, NERA – Nordic Educational Research Association – Network 18 Pre-Conference, Oslo, March 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2017): \u201cEducational orientations among rural youth.\u201d Presented at the Youth Data Conference 2017, Oslo, Norway Nov 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2017): \u201cGendered Ruralities\u201d. Presentation at Faculty of Education Seminar \u201cSpace, Practice, Mobility: On Social Inequality and Educational Politics\u201d. University of Tasmania, Australia, April 2017.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2016): \u201cHow space challenges fairness in education.\u201d Key note, SPERA\/ISFIRE, Queensland, Australia October 2016.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2015): \u201cEncounters between home at school.\u201d Presented at the Youth Data Conference 2015, Oslo, Norway Nov 11 2015.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2013): \u201dStrain and stress in parent-teacher relations.\u201d Presented at International Conference on Teachers and School Administrators: Demand-Supply and Monitoring Policies (InCoTSA), Malaysia June 2013.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2012): \u201dYoung in the High North: Education and Work.\u201d Presented at Conference on Dropout from Upper Secondary Education, University of Troms\u00f8, Faculty of Medicine, Oct 2012.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2010): \u201cIssues on high school dropout among Saami students.\u201d Conference \u201cIndigenous rights, politics and the understanding of self-determination.\u201d University of Montana, USA, Nov 2010.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB & Paulgaard, Gry (2010): \u201cYouth in Barents \u2013 possibilities and challenges.\u201d Presented at Arctic Frontiers, Troms\u00f8, Norway, Jan 2010.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB & Paulgaard, Gry (2006): \u201cYoung people\u2019s living conditions.\u201d Presented at Barents Euro-Arctic Seminar, Rovaniemi, Finland, August 2006.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2006): “Parental involvement in lower secondary school among parents with different social and cultural capital in Norway.” Presented at International Network of Scholars\u2019 Roundtable, San Fransisco,\u00a0 USA, April 2006.<\/p>\n

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Selected presentations at peer reviewed conferences:<\/h3>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2025): \u00abEducational Performance in Rural and Urban Educational Landscapes\u00bb, paper, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA), Denver, April 2025<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2023): \u00ab Spatial intricacies in rural education landscapes \u2013 hard data and soft reflections on education motivations, trajectories and transitions\u00bb, paper presented at symposium \u201cPolitics of non-urban places in educational transitions and guidance\u201d, at NORNet2023 4th Nordic Conference on Research on Transitions, Career and Guidance, Turku, Finland, October 2023<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2023): \u201cEducation Performance and Spatial Factors\u201d, paper presented at ECER-conference, Glasgow, Scotland, September 2023<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2023): Discussant at \u201cPlace-Based Inequity for Schools: International Considerations for at More Inclusive Education System\u201d, ECER (European Educational Research Association)-conference, Glasgow, Scotland, Sept 2023<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2022): \u201cDigitalization of Home-School Relationship and Parental Involvement \u2013 How Does It Affect Questions of Inclusion and Exclusion?\u201d, presented at working group roundtable\u00a0 \u201cDigitalization and Its Impact on Home-School Partnership and Parental Involvement\u201d, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA), San Diego April 2022.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2021): \u201cParents in School Governance \u2013 The Case of Norway\u201d, presented at symposium \u201cThe Nordic Model of Education and Home-School Relations\u201d, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA)<\/p>\n

Alanko, Anu, Autti, Outi & B\u00e6ck, UDB (2019): \u201cRemoteness – a challenge for home-school cooperation?\u201d Paper presented at ERNAPE conference, Gdansk, Poland, September 2019<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2019): \u201cContinuity and change in opportunity structures – a morphogenetic approach to spatial differences in education.\u201d Paper presented at ECER-conference, Hamburg, Germany, September 2019<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2019): \u201cSpatial inequality and the Nordic model of education\u201d Paper presented at WERA conference Tokyo, Japan, August 2019<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2019): \u201cThe significance of context in educational choices among students in Norway.\u201d Paper presented at NERA conference, Uppsala, Sweden, March 2019<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2018): Speaker at Roundtable \u201cCritical Perspectives on parental involvement Across European Education Systems\u201d, ECER (European Educational Research Association)-conference, Bolzano, Italy, Sept 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2018): Discussant at \u201cPreparing Pre-School Teachers for Family School Partnerships: International Perspectives\u201d, ECER (European Educational Research Association)-conference, Bolzano, Italy, Sept 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, Unn-Doris K. & Autti, Outi (2018): \u201c\u00b4Here Comes the Teacher!\u00b4 Being a Teacher in a Rural Community\u201d. Paper presented at the ISFIRE Conference 2018, Montana State University, August 2018.<\/p>\n

Autti, Outi & B\u00e6ck, Unn-Doris K. (2018: \u201cRural teachers and local curricula? ?Teaching should not be a bubble disconnected from the community?\u201d Paper presented at the ISFIRE Conference 2018, Montana State University, August 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, Unn-Doris K. (2018): \u201cThe significance of context in educational choices among students in Norway\u201d. Paper presented at the Nordic Conference for Rural Research, Billund, Denmark, May 2018.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2017): \u201cSpatial Manoeuvring in Education.\u201d Presented at annual SPERA Conference (Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia)-conference, Canberra, Australia, Sept 2017.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2017): \u201cParental Involvement in Norway \u2013 Ideals and Realities and Social Field Encounters.\u201d Presented at the symposium \u201cParental involvement. Commonalities and differences across Europe\u201d at ECER\/EERA (European Educational Research Association)-conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, Aug 2017.<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2017): \u201cWhat upper secondary school students think about parental engagement in school.\u201d Presented at 11th European Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE)-conference, Roehampton, U.K., July 2017<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2015): \u201cUnderstanding the Dropout Problem Through Differences in Utilization of Capital.\u201d Presented at ECER\/EERA (European Educational Research Association)-conference, Budapest, Hungary, Sept 2015<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2015): \u201cBeyond the fancy cakes. Teachers\u2019 relationship to home-school cooperation in a study from Norway.\u201d Presented at 10th European Network About Parents in Education (ERNAPE) conference, Troms\u00f8, Norway, Aug 2015<\/p>\n

Corbett, Michael & B\u00e6ck, UDB (2015): \u201cEmerging Educational Subjectivities in the Global Periphery: New Worker Identities for New Times.\u201d Presented at The XXVI European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, Aberdeen, Scotland, 18.-21. August 2015<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2015): \u201cSchool life – upper secondary school students’ experiences.\u201d Presented at annual NERA-conference (Nordic Educational Research Association), Gothenburg, Sweden, March 2015<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2014): \u201cBeyond the fancy cakes.\u201d Presented at annual FERA Conference on Education 2014, Oulu, Finland, 20\u201321st November 2014, Symposium \u201cParents` place and space in dissimilar educational institutions. Struggling for educational partnership?\u201d<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2013): \u201cExplaining regional differences in dropout rates in Norway.\u201d Presented at annual NERA-conference (Nordic Educational Research Association), Reykjavik, Iceland, March 2013<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2012): \u201cUnemployment and self-esteem.\u201d Presented at European Sociological Association, research network “Youth and Generation”, Mid-Term Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 2012<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2009): \u201dFrom a distance. How Norwegian experience their encounters with school.\u201d Presented at annual AERA-conference (American Educational Research Association), San Diego, April 2009<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2006): \u201dYoung people in the Barents region \u2013 work and welfare.\u201d Presented at 5th International Conference on Youth Research in Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia, September 2006<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2006): \u201cCultural meetings in school \u2013 power and inferiority.” Presented at annual EERA-conference (European Educational Research Association), Geneva, September 2006<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2005): “Parents\u2019 role in education.” Presented at European Research Network About Parents in Education, Oviedo, Spain, September 2005<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2005): “Parental involvement in lower secondary school. Findings from Norway.” Presented at annual EERA (European Educational Research Association)-conference, Dublin, September 2005<\/p>\n

B\u00e6ck, UDB (2004): \u201cLearning environment and cultural encounters in school.\u201d Presented at annual NERAconference (Nordic Educational Research Association), Reykjavik, Iceland, March 2004<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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