Peter Van Petegem

full professor University of Antwerp (BE); part time professor NTNU, Trondheim (NO), host 'De Staat van ons Onderwijs' & 'New Classic' @RadioCentraal, Antwerp (BE)

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

About

Peter Van Petegem is a full professor in Education Sciences at the University of Antwerp and attached to the Department of Training and Education Sciences of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is a founder and member of the Edubron research group (https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/research-groups/edub/). He is interested in evaluation research, mainly at the macro level (education policies) and meso level (educational innovation, school policies, quality assurance). He also has a special interest in environmental education and education for sustainable development. He was or is the promoter of international comparative studies like TALIS (OECD) and TIMSS (IEA). Since 2020, he is a part-time research professor at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Peter has published in various national and international journals and books, with over 200 ISI-indexed journal papers. Peter Van Petegem was Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Educational Evaluation (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0191491X) from 2010 till 2023, and an editorial board member of Environmental Education Research (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ceer20) He obtained his master's degree at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University, where he also received his Ph.D. in educational sciences with the doctoral dissertation 'Schools looking for their quality: Effective school research as a source of inspiration for school self-evaluation’. His dissertation won the Prize of the Antwerp University Research Council. Follow me on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/pvpeteg.bsky.social Listen to https://www.mixcloud.com/peter-vp/ (a radio program and podcast about educational research and development) and https://www.mixcloud.com/Centraal_NewClassic/ (new classic and minimal music)

Experience

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp (26 yrs 9 mos)
    • full professor
      Oct 1999 - Present · 26 yrs 9 mos

      educational sciences, educational research, scientific and societal services

    • voorzitter / chair
      Oct 2010 - Sep 2015 · 5 yrs

      CNO is het grootste Vlaamse nascholingscentrum voor onderwijs. www.ua.ac.be/cno

  • Research Professor at Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)
    Mar 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

    guest professor

  • Voorzitter at Departement Opleidings- en Onderwijswetenschappen
    Oct 2015 - Sep 2018 · 3 yrs