Rebecca Ye’s research takes place at the intersection of education and labour worlds. Her work pays special attention to transitions, trajectories, vocations and temporality. Understanding how social processes reduce or generate (un)equal outcomes in and around educational organisations, and especially in situations of uncertainty, has been a focal point in her research. The studies she lead analyse education-to-work pathways that are institutionalised, as well as pathways that are emerging and anticipatory, in a variety of contexts such as Singapore, the United Kingdom and Sweden. Relatedly, she has conducted studies on educational processes and organisations with long histories (e.g., elite institutions), newer educational forms (e.g., higher vocational education), and processes/organisations that are being tested and undergoing change (e.g. research on educational transitions, skilling regimes, transnational education strategies).
Rebecca is Director of Research at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), and Associate Professor (Docent) and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education, Stockholm University. She earned her PhD in Sociology at Stockholm University and Master of Science in Sociology at the University of Oxford. Rebecca has been a visiting academic at the Nanyang Technological University and the UCL Institute of Education. Before life in academia, she worked in the foreign service and conducted research for policy and practice at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Institute for Adult Learning in Singapore. She has served on several advisory and editorial boards such as International Studies in Sociology of Education, Stockholm Centre for Global Asia, Springer Lifelong Learning Book Series, been part of and chaired expert panels for research funding, and grading committees for doctoral projects.
More about her research can be found here, and on her teaching here.
Get in touch: rebecca.ye(at)edu.su.se
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