● Pepka Boyadjieva

Pepka Boyadjieva

Main information

Bulgarian

Affiliation

Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Levels of education

  • School education
  • VET
  • Higher Education
  • Non-formal and informal learning
  • Adult education

Geographical scope of expertise

Policy themes

  • Access to high quality education for all
  • Funding and governance of education and training
  • Vulnerable groups in education and training, ensuring inclusion and non-discrimination
  • Early school leaving, participation in education and training
  • Monitoring for equity and quality in education and training
  • Education and training of professional workforce
  • Active citizenship and identity in education
  • Innovation and equity in education

Selected publications

  • Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, Sh., Hefler, G. and Studená, (Eds.) (2023). Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe, Palgrave MacMillan https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6, open access
  • Boyadjieva, P. & Ilieva-Trichkova, P. (2023). Empowerment through lifelong education and learning: A social justice perspective. In Evans, K. Lee, W.-O., Markowitsch, J. and Zukas, M. (Eds.) International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer, pp. 139-161.
  • Haralampiev, K, Ilieva-Trichkova, P., Boyadjieva, P. (2023). Does father’s class or mother’s education matter more? Decomposing and contextualising the influence of social origin on adult learning participation, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 42(2): 142-164, DOI: 10.1080/02601370.2022.2153388.
  • Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, Sh., Hefler, G., and Studená, I. (2023). Adult education, Learning citizens, and the lessons of Enliven. In: Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, Sh., Hefler, G. and Studená, (Eds.) (2023). Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 405-426.
  • Boyadjieva P., & Ilieva-Trichkova P. (2023). Adult education as a pathway to empowerment: Challenges and possibilities. In: Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, Sh., Hefler, G. and Studená, (Eds.) (2023). Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe, Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 169-192.
  • Boyadjieva P., & Ilieva-Trichkova P. (2022). Does participation in non-formal adult education matter for individual subjective well-being as a multidimensional functioning?. European Educational Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041221116261
  • Boyadjieva, P. Orr, K. (2022). University as a cathedral: lifelong learning and the role of the university in the European context. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(6): 615-633, https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2106521
  • Boyadjieva, P. (2022). (Un)avoidable clash: Higher education at the altar of its missions and rankings. In: Parreira do Amaral, M. and Thompson, Ch. (Eds.). Geopolitical Transformations in Higher Education. Imagining, Fabricating and Contesting Innovation, Springer, pp. 125-142 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94415-5_8
  • Imdorf, Ch., Petya Ilieva-Trichkova, P., Stoilova, S., Boyadjieva, P. and Gerganov, A. (2022). Regional and ethnic disparities of school-to-work transitions in Bulgaria. Education Sciences, 12(4), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12040233
  • Gerganov, A., Ilieva-Trichkova, P., Boyadjieva, P. (2022). Corruption-driven inequalities in access to adult education, Adult Education Quarterly, 72(4): 339-360 https://doi.org/10.1177/074171362110545.
  • Boyadjieva, P. and Ilieva-Trichkova, P. (2021). Adult Education as Empowerment: Re-imagining Lifelong Learning through the Capability Approach, Recognition Theory and Common Goods Perspective. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Ilieva-Trichkova, P. & Boyadjieva, P. (2021). The fragile axes of life: A Capability approach perspective towards graduates’ education–job mismatches and subjective well-being. Social Sciences, 10(7), 262, DOI : 10.3390/socsci10070262
  • Boyadjieva, P., & Ilieva-Trichkova, P. (2020). Inclusion and fairness in access to higher education: theoretical distinctions, measurement and patterns of interaction. In Universities as political institutions – HEIs in the middle of academic, economic, and social pressures, edited by L. Weimer & T. Nokkala. Brill, 237–261.
  • Boyadjieva P., Ilieva-Trichkova P., Milenkova, V. and Stoilova, R. (2020). The local embeddedness of graduates’ education-job mismatch and of lifelong learning policies for its overcoming, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 39:1, 104-118, DOI: 10.1080/02601370.2020.1734676.
  • Angelova, R., Boyadjieva, P. The Bulgarian rejoinder to Youth Guarantee. Marcella Milana, Gosia Klatt, Sandra Vatrella (Eds.), Europe’s Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy: Using an Instruments Approach, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, ISBN:978-3-030-38068-7, 25, 235-260
  • Ilieva-Trichkova, P. & Boyadjieva, P. (2020). Young people’s agency over continuing education in situations of early job insecurity: from enabling to stumbling, Studies in Continuing Education, 42(3): 279-297. DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2019.1615424.
  • Boyadjieva P., Ilieva-Trichkova P. (2019). (Un)realized agency in a situation of early job insecurity: Patterns of young people’s agency regarding employment. In: Hvinden, B., Hyggen, Ch., Schoyen, M.A. and Sirovátka, T. (Eds.). Youth Unemployment and Job Insecurity in Europe: Problems, Risk Factors and Policies, 117-136. Open access.
  • Boyadjieva P., Ilieva-Trichkova P. (2019). From conceptualization to measurement of higher education as a common good: Challenges and possibilities. Higher Education, 77 (6): 1047–1063, open access, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-018-0319-1