Dear PhD students,
I would like to draw your attention to the ECCES 2026 Call for Contributions (deadline: 15 February), which I believe represents a particularly relevant opportunity for many of you, both in terms of scientific positioning and professional development.
ECCES is a relevant international conference space that explicitly welcomes early-career researchers, offering a supportive yet demanding environment for discussing work in progress, theoretical frameworks, and methodological choices. The call encourages contributions that are critical, interdisciplinary, and methodologically reflective, making it especially suitable for doctoral research that does not fit neatly into conventional disciplinary boxes.
Participating in this conference can serve multiple purposes:
– testing your research questions in an international arena;
– receiving high-quality feedback from peers and senior scholars;
– strengthening your academic profile through a recognized conference venue;
– building networks aligned with critical, social, and educational research traditions.
For those of you working on themes related to education, social change, inequalities, digital transformations, ethics, or critical methodologies, this call is particularly coherent with the kinds of research trajectories we value within the PhD programme.
If you are at a stage where articulating and discussing your work beyond the local context would be productive, this conference is certainly of interest.
Best regards,
Juliana