15th International Conference & 75th Anniversary
of the JVET Journal
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 July 2023
THEME: The context and purpose of TVET
JVET’s 15th Conference and 75th Celebrations
JVET’s Editorial Management Committee and the JVET Conference Team were delighted to welcome delegates from across the globe to JVET’s Conference, held 13 - 15 July 2023 at Keble College, Oxford.
Following a record number of abstract submissions, the 3 day programme was a vibrant, inspirational opportunity for colleagues to gather and share their research and explore opportunities for future collaborations.
So many of our colleagues who were able to attend, present and share the networking opportunities expressed their gratitude for the chance to meet in person.
Keynote presenters, John Buchanan (University of Sydney) and Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford) received the warmest of welcomes for their thought-provoking presentations. Keble College provided a stunning location for the Conference; shared breakfasts, lunches, dinners and the bar gave delegates plenty of chance to continue conversations and debates.
A special mention goes out to JVET’s five bursary winners who joined the Conference to share their abstracts. Our Early Career Researchers’ group is now busy planning an event for this Autumn to build on our support for these vital members of our community.
2023 also provided the stage setting for Editors past and present to get together and invite the delegates to revisit some of JVET’s highlights and milestones shared over the past 75 years.
We would like to thank everyone who attended and made the event such an enjoyable and constructive event for our JVET community. We hope to see you again in 2025!
Re-live the JVET 75 years celebration!
If you couldn’t make this year’s Conference or simply want to re-live the moment, click on the video here to view the Editors’ presentation to celebrate 75 years of JVET history!
Conference 2023 - keynote speakers
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Nandini Gooptu is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development and Fellow of St Antony's College. She was Head of Department between 2012 and 2016.
She is currently Associate Head (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) of Oxford University’s Social Sciences Division. She previously held research fellowships and taught at St John’s College and Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge.Educated in Calcutta and at Cambridge, and trained as a social historian, she is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (Cambridge University Press, 2001), editor of Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India (Routledge, 2013), and joint-editor of India and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, Oxford History of the British Empire series, 2012) and Persistence of Poverty in India (Social Science Press and Routledge, 2014). She edited a special issue of the Journal of South Asian Development on skill development in India. While her past research has been on colonial India, her recent research is concerned with social and political transformation and cultural change in contemporary India in the wake of economic liberalisation and globalisation. She is currently leading the India leg of an ESRC-funded project on Urban Transformation and Gendered Violence in India and South Africa, in collaboration with the Universities of Cambridge (lead institution), Johannesburg and Shiv Nadar (India).
She has researched and published on a variety of subjects, including new cultures of work and skills in India, caste, communal and religious politics, urban change, poverty and labour, media and politics, and social movement of sex workers.She is the chair of the international advisory board and editorial board of Oxford Development Studies. She is a member of the editorial boards of Springer’s “Exploring Urban change in South Asia” book series and Anthem’s “Modern South Asian History” series. She was the editor of the “South Asian Diversity and Plurality” book series of Anthem Press.
Nandini Gooptu,
Keynote 14th July 2023
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John Buchanan is currently a Professor in Working Life in the Discipline of Business Information Systems and Co-Director of the Mental Wealth Initiative at the University of Sydney Business School.
His key domains of expertise are wage determination, workforce development and the role of work in social as well as economic development. In recent years his research has examined how to overcome problems in competency based systems of vocational education by moving to more coherent, ‘capabilities’ approaches to defining expertise. This research involves, inter alia, using modern methods of data science to achieve this objective.
His current research interests concern
(i) understanding how mental and not just material aspect of life determine national prosperity and
(ii) new directions in occupational reconstruction, especially in the health and social services.
He recently led a multi-disciplinary, international team of researchers preparing research report for UNESCO on the futures of work and education.
John Buchanan,
Keynote 13th July 2023
JVET was honoured to welcome our two keynote speakers to Conference in 2023; Nandini Gooptu and John Buchanan.
Click below the images to read more about our speakers and view their keynote presentations below.
Top image: John Buchanan with Chair, Stephanie Allais
Bottom image: Nandini Gooptu with Chair, Simon McGrath