Dr. Inge M. Bryderup (Denmark)

Dr. Inge M. Bryderup will speak on Tuesday 5 May at 15.00.
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Research in an international perspective
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Research with a comparative international approach often produces a lot of new knowledge. In national research one tends to take a lot of national conditions and culture for given, and one does not look into the ways in which these factors influence the issues that are being investigated. And one is forced to do so in international comparative research. On the other hand, you run into a lot of difficulties when you compare social politics, social problems and ways of challenging these within the areas of social work and social pedagogy in different countries. 

Examples will be given from an EU funded collaborative project with the title: “Young people from a public care background: pathways to education in Europe – YIPPEE”. Researchers from the United Kingdom, Hungary, Spain, Sweden and Denmark are studying particular groups at risk and their transitional phase from care to adulthood in different welfare regimes with a lot of variations in social pedagogy/social work and post-compulsory education. 

Inge M. Bryderup is a sociologist and associate professor at The Danish University School of Education, University of Aarhus. She has a long history of national and international research in the fields of social policy and social work as well as children and young people placed outside their homes, empirical studies as well as theoretical research. Inge M. Bryderup is the coordinator of the Danish MEd programme in Social pedagogy/social work education.