Wint, N; Williams, B; Valentine, A; (2025) Comparing Engineering Education Research Across Europe: Research Groups, Reward, and Recognition. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations , 38 (SI 2) pp. 193-201. 10.16920/jeet/2025/v38is2/25024.

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Abstract

The past decades have seen the development of engineering education research (EER) worldwide, resulting in the assertion that it has become globally connected as a field of inquiry. Consistent with desires to enhance international EER capacity, this paper reports information about the current state of EER within fourteen European countries. Data were initially gathered during a workshop at the 2022 annual conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) and subsequently augmented using an expert elicitation and snowball sampling approach. Formal PhD programs and research groups are relatively uncommon in the countries studied. It is rare that EER is valued as highly as disciplinary research, and funding opportunities are isolated and small in scale. The study reveals a landscape which does not always benefit from support infrastructures, and where individual researchers may be isolated within their institutions. Based on this, we identify a need for support infrastructures and career incentives to encourage scholarship in this field and recommend creating position papers outlining strategic priorities aligning with European and national policy.

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