Pepka Boyadjieva (0000-0002-0561-6942)

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Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nottingham. She is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Lifelong Education, Journal of Social Science Education, and of the Bulgarian journal Sociological problems. Her research interests are in the field of education with an emphasis on higher education, university development, educational inequalities, school to work transitions and lifelong learning. Currently, Boyadjieva is a member of the Network of Experts on the Social Aspects of Education and Training (NESET 2019-22) and principal investigator in the project “Dynamics of inequalities in participation in higher and adult education: A comparative social justice perspective” (2020-2023).

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Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Sofia, BG

(Knowledge Society: Science, Education and Innovations)

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Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Sofia, BG

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Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski Department of Sociology: Sofia, BG

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Indexes as an Instrument for Measuring Inequalities in Higher Education

Higher education as a public good and social cohesion: an exploratory study from a European comparative perspective

University as a cathedral: lifelong learning and the role of the university in the European context

Beyond the human capital approach to adult education policy: how adult learning and education policy matters for individual subjective well-being?

Bounded advantages of higher education regarding young adults’ participation in nonformal education

Social Justice Profiles: An Exploratory Study towards an Empirically Based Multi-Dimensional Classification of Countries Regarding Fairness of Participation in Higher Education

Dynamics of inequalities in higher education

Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?

Justice in Achievement Matters: The Fairness of Educational Opportunities and Active Citizenship

The local embeddedness of graduates' education-job mismatch and of lifelong learning policies for its overcoming

Does father’s class or mother’s education matter more? Decomposing and contextualising the influence of social origin on adult learning participation

University as a cathedral: lifelong learning and the role of the university in the European context

Regional and Ethnic Disparities of School-to-Work Transitions in Bulgaria

Adult Education as Empowerment: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective.

Young people’s agency over continuing education in situations of early job insecurity: from enabling to stumbling

The local embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatch and of lifelong learning policies for its overcoming

Horizontal Differentiation Matters: Moderating Influence of the Type of Upper Secondary Education on Students’ Transitions

Educational systems matter: differences across European countries in how young people with secondary education experience job insecurity

Adult education as a common good: conceptualisation and measurement

Between Inclusion and Fairness: Social Justice Perspective to Participation in Adult Education

Gender, education and employment. An international comparison of school-to work transitions

Invisible higher education: Higher education institutions from Central and Eastern Europe in global rankings

Audience reach of science on television in 10 European countries: An analysis of people-meter data

Rethinking missions and values of higher education: Insights from the capability approach and the institutional perspective

The Bulgarian educational system and gender segregation in the labour market

Adult learning in modern societies: an international comparison from a life-course perspective

Higher education and social trust: A European comparative perspective

Inequality in Poverty: Bulgarian Sociologists on Class and Stratification

Institutional diversity and graduate employability: The Bulgarian case

Regional gender differences in vocational education in Bulgaria

Bulgaria: Social justice and privileged access to higher education in a totalitarian society, 1944–1989

Dynamics of inequalities in access to higher education: Bulgaria in a comparative perspective

Admissions policies as a mechanism for social engineering: The case of the Bulgarian Communist regime

Conceptualizing overlapping modernities: A view from post-communist eastern Europe

Trust in Education: Truths and values

The impact of weighting preferences on university rankings: The example of bulgaria

Shooting at a moving target: Rediscovering sociology in Bulgaria

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education

Citizenship education as an instrument for strengthening the state's supremacy: An apparent paradox?

Public Perceptions of Private Universities and Colleges in Bulgaria

Long-term trends in the public representation of science across the 'iron curtain': 1946-1995

Towards a New Understanding of Education in the Globalizing World: Life long Learning

Public knowledge of and attitudes to science: Alternative measures that may end the "science war"

The image of the scientist and its functions

Conceptualizing Overlapping Modernities: A View from Post-Communist Eastern Europe

Diversity Matters: A Lesson from a Post-Communist Country

Shooting at a Moving Target: Rediscovering Sociology in Bulgaria

The lifelong learning hybrid: the case of Bulgaria