22.10.2025, 9.00am: Academic publishing: seminar for PhD candidates and emerging researchers
I am very pleased to invite all PhD candidates and emerging researchers for seminar on academic publishing. Our guests – prof. Michael Peters and Prof. Tina Besley have enormous experience in publishing and editing academic publications. We will discuss the main challenges and difficulties related to publishing, particularly in an international academic context.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday, October 22nd at 9.00am in the building of the Faculty of Education, Mokotowska Street 16/20, room 501.
Organizer: Rafał Godoń
Michael A. Peters
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1482-2975
Michael A. Peters (FRSNZ, FHSNZ, FPESA) is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua (P.R. China), Emeritus Professor University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U.S.A.), and Research Associate in the Philosophy Program at Waikato University (NZ). He was Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University (2018-2024). He was awarded a Personal Chair at the University of Auckland in 2000 and held the Research Chair at the University of Glasgow (2000-2006) before being appointed Excellence Hire Professor at Illinois (2005-2011) and Professor of Education at the University of Waikato (2011-2018). He served as Editor-in-Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory for 25 years and was the founding editor of several other international journals, including Policy Futures in Education, The Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy and The Beijing International Review of Education. Michael has written over 120 books and some 500 journal articles on a wide range of topics in educational theory, philosophy, and knowledge economy. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2008 and a Fellow of Humanities NZ in 2006. He was awarded honorary doctorates by State University of New York (SUNY) in 2012 and the University of Aalborg in 2015. His recent works include two books on postapocalyptic philosophy: Civilisational Collapse and the Philosophy of Post-Apocalyptic Survival (Peter Lang, 2025), and he is currently editing the Handbook of Ecological Civilization (Springer, 2026). Personal website: https://michaeladrianpeters.com/
Tina Besley, PhD, FRSA, FPESA, FAVP
Visiting Professor, School of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4377-1257
Tina Besley is Visiting Professor in the School of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing. From 2018-24 she was Distinguished Professor, Beijing Normal University. Prior positions include: Professor and Associate Dean International, Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand; Research Professor, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; Full Professor, California State University San Bernardino. Tina began her academic career at the University of Glasgow in late 2000. She spent 16 years as a secondary school teacher, Head of Guidance, and Counsellor in New Zealand. She is Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, and founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies, and honoured as a Fellow of both. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. Tina uses the later work of Michel Foucault on subjectivity, free speech, governmentality. In global studies in education she explores policy, identities and cultures and interculturalism. Tina works closely with Prof. Michael A. Peters and with a wide international network of scholars in many journal articles and books, publishing over 30 books and monographs and numerous journal articles. She has been on the editorial board of several journals including deputy editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory; associate editor Beijing International Review of Education, founding editor PESA Agora: founding co-editor E-Learning & Digital media; and Knowledge Cultures.