Pepka Boyadjieva Explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Pepka Boyadjieva
Native Name Lang:Пепка Бояджиева
Birth Date:26 December 1954
Birth Place:Montana, Bulgaria
Citizenship:Bulgarian
Spouse:Tzocho Boyadjiev
Awards:Fulbright Program, Andrew Mellon Award
Alma Mater:Sofia University
Workplaces:Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Discipline:Sociology
Sub Discipline:Sociology of education

Pepka Boyadjieva is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Chair of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge (2011 – 2019) and of Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (since 2019). Vice-Chair of the General Assembly of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2016 – 2020); President of the Bulgarian Sociological Association (2003 – 2006).[1] Expert for the European Commission and Permanent Senior Fellow at Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia (2006 – 2018). Member of the Editorial Board of the International Sociological Association’s edition Sage Studies in International Sociology (2010 – 2019), Board Member of International Journal of Lifelong Education since 2008 and of Journal of Social Science Education since 2009. Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nottingham; Professor of Sofia University and New Bulgarian University. Her research interests are in the fields of inequalities in education; social justice and education; education, science and social modernization; university and society; lifelong and adult learning; public representation and images of science and scientists.

Biography

Pepka Alexandrova Boyadjieva was born on December 26, 1954, in the then town of Mihailovgrad, now Montana, Bulgaria. She graduated in philosophy with a specialization in sociology in 1976 at Sofia University, defended her PhD dissertation in 1980, and the next one for Doctor Habilis of Sociological Sciences in 1999. Her professional career developed mainly at the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where she has held the Senior Research Fellow I degree since 2000. She has chaired the Scientific Council of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge(renamed as Institute of Philosophy and Sociology in 2019)[2] since 2011 and previously chaired the Scientific Council of the Institute of Sociology from 2004 to 2008.[3] She was a Permanent Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia (2006 – 2018). Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology since 2010, Honorary Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Nottingham since 2011.[4] She was President of the Bulgarian Sociological Association (2003 – 2006).[5] She has been lecturing a course on Sociology of Education since 1994 at Sofia University and delivered courses on University Worlds, Institutions of Knowledge and Sociology of Education at New Bulgarian University.

Boyadjieva is highly committed to the cause of civic activism and social development policies and has been an expert on governmental and non-governmental reform initiatives. She was a long-time expert at the Open Society Institute, Sofia and is currently chairing its board of trustees.[6] She is one of the authors of the current Strategy for the Development of Higher Education in the Republic of Bulgaria 2021-2030. She is a member of “Education without Barriers” Association.[7]

Research accomplishments

Boyadjieva took part in more than 30 research projects, being the team-leader in most of them. She is the only representative of social sciences who won a grant for a research project from the National Research Program "Outstanding Studies and People for the Development of European Science" (in Bulgarian - NNP "VIHREN") in 2019.[8] The theme of this 5-year project is "Dynamics of Inequalities in Higher Education and Adult Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Social Justice".[9] Since 2005 she has been acting as evaluator and independent expert for the European Commission. She is a member of the international networks of experts of social dimension of education and learning at the NESET [10] and NESSE.[11]

Boyadjieva is one of the few internationally renowned Bulgarian sociologists as since 2000 – her citations in Google Scholar by 2021 alone are over 830 for nearly 300 publications since 1997 with H-index 14,[12] and 273 citations and H-index 7 according to SCOPUS.[13] According to the ResearchGate with a personal score of 20.91,[14] she is more highly recognizable than 75% of the authors in this scientific portal.

Awards and honors

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences presented Boyadjieva with the Marin Drinov ribbon badge of honour in 2021.[15] [16] Boyadjieva received the Cyril O. Houle Award from the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education in 2022.[17] In 2023 Boyadjieva received the National Pythagoras Award from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.[18] She was named an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham in 2023.[19]

Selected works

Authored and co-authored books

Edited books

Selected articles and book chapters

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: History of BSA – BSA . 2024-03-11 . en-US.
  2. Web site: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology . 14 June 2022 . 26 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220526121400/https://ips-bas.org/about-us/ . dead .
  3. Web site: Pepka Boyadjieva's CV . Institute of Sociology . Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . 3 June 2022.
  4. Web site: Honorary Professors and Honorary Fellows . University of Nottingham . 3 June 2022.
  5. Web site: History of BSA . Bulgarian Sociological Association . 3 June 2022.
  6. Web site: Board of Trustees . 26 April 2018 . Open Society Institute - Sofia . 3 June 2022.
  7. Web site: Sc.D. Pepka Boyadjieva . Education Without Barriers Association . 3 June 2022.
  8. Web site: Professor Pepka Boyadjieva . MES Scientific Portal . 30 July 2020 . Ministry of Education and Science . 3 June 2022.
  9. Web site: Prof. DSc Pepka Boyadjieva - Project Leader . Just Education Project . 3 June 2022.
  10. Web site: NESET Database of researchers: Pepka Boyadjieva . NESET . . 3 June 2022.
  11. Web site: NESSE Members: Pepka Boyadjieva . NESSE . . 3 June 2022.
  12. Web site: Pepka Boyadjieva . Google Scholar . 3 June 2022.
  13. Web site: Pepka Boyadjieva profile generated by Scopus . 14 June 2022.
  14. Web site: Pepka Boyadjieva . ResearchGate . 3 June 2022.
  15. Web site: 2024-01-11 . Meet Pepka Boyadjieva! . 2024-03-11 . International Journal of Lifelong Education . en.
  16. Web site: Honorary Professor Pepka Boyadjieva receives prestigious award - The University of Nottingham . 2024-03-11 . www.nottingham.ac.uk.
  17. Web site: The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) . Recipients of the Cyril O. Houle Award . 15 November 2022 .
  18. Web site: UNWE . 2023-05-20 . UNWE Hosted Pythagoras Annual Awards for Contribution to Science for 2023 . 2024-03-11 . www.unwe.bg . en-US.
  19. Web site: Honorary Network in Post 16, Lifelong Learning and Adult Education - The University of Nottingham . 2024-03-11 . www.nottingham.ac.uk.

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