Margot Joris

Margot Joris is a postdoctoral researcher and Doctor-assistant in Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), affiliated with the Brussels Research Centre for Innovation in Learning and Diversity (BILD). She holds a PhD from KU Leuven and a master's degree in Educational Sciences. Her research focuses on citizenship education within the European context, particularly the role of young people's political emotions in schools and pedagogical responsibilities in fostering critical democratic citizenship. She is actively involved in Erasmus+ projects, including QUALAS (learning analytics for school quality assurance) and BRiDGE (policy research-policy making bridge). She also participates in international conferences and public lectures on educational research.

• Affiliations: VUB's Department of Educational Sciences, BILD, and European networks like Contested Identities.
• Education: PhD and master's in Educational Sciences (KU Leuven), postdoctoral work at the University of Humanistic Studies (Utrecht).

Her research interests span citizenship education pedagogy, educational policy analysis, vocational education curriculum design, and the role of teacher modeling in student development. Her recent work explores learning analytics' affordances and constraints in secondary education quality assurance, with a focus on cross-national comparisons between Flanders and Ireland.

She has presented at multiple conferences, including talks on 'Bildung in Vocational Education' (2023), 'Citizenship Education Reconceptualized' (2020), and 'Educational Research as Social Change' (2023). She contributed to media discussions on youth citizenship measurement in 2017.