Team
Jan Germen Janmaat
Project leader Jan Germen Janmaat is a professor of political socialisation at the Institute of Education (IOE), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. He is interested in how education, in all its many facets, influences civic values and political engagement and whether particular educational programs or institutional designs help to reduce inequalities in these outcomes. His work features in many journals spanning education, sociology and political science.
Bryony Hoskins
Co-investigator Professor Bryony Hoskins has a chair in Comparative Social Science at the University of Roehampton. She is a world leading expert on citizenship education specialising in inequalities and political socialisation across Europe and the Middle East. Her latest book is on Education, Democracy and Inequality: Political Engagement and Citizenship Education in Europe.
Adrian Arellano
Research Fellow Adrian Arellano obtained his PhD in Political Science at the University of Michigan. His interests include the causes and consequences of political, social, and economic inequalities as well as research methodology. He has published in journals including Security Studies and International Studies Review.
Funder
Leverhulme Trust
The project is funded by a Research Project Grant from the Leverhulme Trust for a period of four years until January 2028. Apart from developing the EfDI, the project aims to relate the EfDI to national political and cultural traditions to see how path-dependent the policies and practices that it captures are. It further seeks to relate the EfDI (including its sub-indexes, fields and indicators) to young people’s democratic competences to assess whether these policies and practices are likely to contribute to positive outcomes.
Advisory Board
Martyn Barrett
Martyn Barrett is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK.
Maria Magdalena Isac
Maria Magdalena (Magda) Isac is a Researcher at the Centre for Political Science Research of the KU Leuven, Belgium and the International Study Director of ICCS.
Sarah Keating
Sarah Keating joined the Council of Europe’s Education Department in 1994 and is now Head of the Division of Co-operation and Capacity Building.
Liz Moorse
Liz Moorse is the Chief Executive of the Association for Citizenship Teaching. She leads the Charity, working with the Board, Teacher Council and staff and overseeing key programmes including the Active Citizenship in Schools Programme and the Five Nations Network in the UK and Ireland.