Keynote Speakers

Marios Vryonides

Position:
- - Vice-Rector, Research and External Affairs, Professor of Sociology, School of Humanities, Social and Education Sciences, European University Cyprus
  - President of RC04 Sociology of Education, International Sociology Association (ISA)
Degree: PhD. School of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
Career:
- - Cyprus’ national coordinator of the European Social Survey (EU-funded projects)
  - Visiting of The Institute of Education, University of London
  - Professor of Anglia Polytechnic (now Ruskin) University
  - Professor of University of the Aegean
Fields of Specialty: Sociology, Sociology of Education & Research Methods

Degree: Ph.D., Cultural Studies, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University
Career:
- - Author of《Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs》
  - Professor of Department of Sociology, Princeton University
  - Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography, Keele University
  - Head of Department, Department of Management Studies, Keele University
  - Senior Founding Editor and Joint Editor of Journal《Ethnography》
Fields of Specialty: Sociology, Anthropology, Education

Position:
- - Professor, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Director of Centre for Effective, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Visiting Professor at Laboratorio de Economia de la Educacion, Pontifica Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
  - Editor in Chief of《International Journal of Educational Research》&《International Journal of Educational Research Open》
  - Chaor of the AERA Cooperative Learning SIG
Career:
- - Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Academy of Globalization and Education Policy, Zhengzhou University, China
  - Secretary/Treasurer of the AERA Cooperative Learning SIG
Fields of Specialty: Social Sciences, Education, Social Work, Cooperative/Peer learning

Position:
- - Professor of Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Education, Sophia University, Japan
  - Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences
  - President of The Japan Society of Educational Sociology (JSES)
Fields of Specialty: Clinical Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

Position: Professor of Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan
Degree: Ph.D., Hiroshima University
Career:
- - President of the Japan Society for Child Study
  - Director of the Japanese Society for the Study of Education
  - Director of the Japanese Society for Educational Sociology
Fields of Specialty: Social Sciences, Education, Sociology of Education