Lukas Graf, Prof. Dr.

Esperienza professionale

Since 04.2023: Head of the Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training OBS SFUVET, Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Switzerland
2017-03.2023: Assistant Professor of Educational Governance, Hertie School – The University of Governance in Berlin, Germany; Head of the Educational Governance Research Team
12.2022-02.2023: Guest researcher at the Department of Education Studies, Centre for Comparative and International Education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2015-2017: Postdoctoral researcher (70%) & project coordinator (30%), Leading House “Governance in Vocational and Professional Education and Training (GOVPET)”, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
01.2015-03.2015: AICGS/DAAD Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., USA
2013-2015: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Institute of Education & Society
2008-2013: Researcher, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany, Research unit “Skill Formation and Labor Markets”
09.2010: Guest researcher at the Institute of Educational Science, Universität Bern, Switzerland
03.2010: Guest researcher at the Department of Political Science, Universität Wien, Austria

Formazione

2009-2012: Dr. phil. in Sociology, Awarded in Nov. 2012, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political & Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology.
Thesis title: “The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland”; Reviewers: Heike Solga (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) & Kathleen Thelen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA)
2005-2008: M.A. Global Political Economy, Universität Kassel, Germany, Department of Social Sciences
2002-2005: B.A. Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, School of Economic and Social Studies

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Awards

2022: Best Paper Award (1st place) at 7th International Congress on Research in Vocational Education and Training, Zollikofen, Switzerland.
Paper title: “Conditions for cross-border policy transfer and cooperation: Analysing differences between higher education and vocational training”; co-authored with Anna P. Lohse
2019: Best Paper Award (2nd place) at 6th International Congress on Research in Vocational Education and Training, Zollikofen, Switzerland.
Paper title: “Embedded Flexibilization and Polite Employer Domination – The Case of Short-track Apprenticeships in Switzerland”; co-authored with Gina Di Maio and Anna Wilson
2017/2018: Hertie School Excellence Award in the Category “Citizenship” in recognition of extraordinary achievements in academic citizenship; Hertie School, Berlin
2018: Eric M. Warburg speaker (ACG) giving talks in Charlotte NC, Atlanta GA, and San Francisco CA, USA
2014: Best dissertation award, Higher Education Section of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Toronto, Canada
2014: Ulrich-Teichler-Prize of the German Association for Higher Education Research, Dortmund, Germany (awarded for dissertation)
2005: Student Prize in Economics at the Final Assessment (B.A. graduation), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Mandati/Partecipazioni

Affiliated Researcher, Leading House for Governance in Vocational and Professional Education and Training (GOVPET), University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
Fellow of the Hertie School - The University of Governance in Berlin

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Lukas Graf, Prof. Dr.

Analisi della situazione relativa alla promozione dei posti di tirocinio nel Canton Zurigo

Monitoraggio delle tendenze

Aeschlimann, B., Graf, L., Neumann, J., Pusterla, F. & Schweri, J. (2024). Lehrstellenförderung: Situationsanalyse und Handlungsfelder, Schlussbericht. Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB.

Kriesi, I., Graf, L., & Schweri, J. (2024). Vocational Education and Training. In W. Troop-Gordon & E. Neblett (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Second Edition, Volume 2: Relational and Sociocultural Contexts. Elsevier.

Marques, M., Graf, L., & Rohde-Liebenau, J. (2023). Forming a Supranational Boundary-spanning Policy Regime – European Intersectoral Coordination in Education and Employment. Journal of Education and Work, 36(7-8). 524-541, https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2023.2275778

Graf, L., Marques, M., Sorensen, T. B., & Dumay, X. (2023). The Emergence of European Boundary-spanning Policy Regimes: Analysing Intersectoral Policy Coordination in Education and Employment. Journal of Education and Work, 36(7-8), 511-523, https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2023.2275778

Rohde-Liebenau, J., & Graf, L. (2023). Two instruments, one melody: The parallel evolvement of European and German alliances for apprenticeships. European Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041221148282

Graf, L., Strebel, A., & Emmenegger, P. (2023). State-Led Bricolage and the Extension of Collective Governance: Hybridity in the Swiss Skill Formation System. Regulation & Governance, 17(1), 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197570685.013.28

Graf, L. (2023). Historical Institutionalism in Education and Globalization. In P. Mattei, X. Dumay, E. Mangez, & J. Behrend (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Education and Globalization (pp. 74-94). Oxford University Press.

Bernhard, N. & Graf, L. (2022). Enhancing Permeability through Cooperation: The Case of Vocational and Academic Worlds of Learning in the Knowledge Economy. In G. Bonoli, P. Emmenegger P. (Eds.), Collective skill formation systems in the knowledge economy (281-307). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Graf, L., & Marques, M. (2022). Towards a European model of collective skill formation? Analysing the European Alliance for Apprenticeships, Journal of Education Policy, 16.

Graf, L. & Aeschlimann, B. (2024, Januar). Die Bedeutung neuer Technologien für das Qualifikationsverfahren [Präsentation]. FORUM Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB, Zollikofen, Schweiz.

Graf, L. (2023, November 18). Input in the SFUVET Bachelor of Science in Vocational Education and Training on the topic of «International differences in vocational education and training». Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET, Zollikofen, Switzerland.

Graf, L. (2023, October 17). Invited expert at CEDEFOP. Expert Workshop for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) Study on «Promoting lifelong learning of adults through CVET systems and upskilling pathways». (online)

Aeschlimann, B., Graf, L., Pusterla, F. & Schweri, J. (2023, Oktober). Zwischenbericht «Lehrstellenförderung Kanton Zürich» [Präsentation]. Projektausschuss des Kantons Zürich. (online)

Graf, L., Sorensen, T., & Alexiadou, N. (2023, August 21-25,). Organization of the Symposium «Deepening Europeanisation: European Union governance of education and training in the 2020s». Conference of the European Consortium for Educational Research (ECER) 2023, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Graf, L. (2023, 24. Mai). Eine Governance-Perspektive auf Qualifikationsverfahren in der Berufsbildung [Präsentation]. Beiratssitzung des Schweizerischen Observatoriums für die Berufsbildung, Zollikofen, Schweiz.

Graf, L. (2023, 24. Mai). Neuer Trendbericht: Qualifikationsverfahren in der beruflichen Grundbildung (Einführung) [Präsentation]. Beiratssitzung des Schweizerischen Observatoriums für die Berufsbildung, Zollikofen, Schweiz.

Graf, L. (2023, May 23). Exchange on current Developments in VET with Professor Tom Bewick, Chief Executive, Federation of Awarding Bodies The Collective Voice of the UK's Qualifications and Assessments Industry. (online)

Aeschlimann, B., Graf, L., Pusterla, F. & Schweri, J. (2023, Oktober). Situationsanalyse Lehrstellenförderung Kanton Zürich. Zwischenbericht [Präsentation]. Bildungsdirektion Kanton Zürich, Bern, Schweiz. (online)

Graf, L. (2023, Oktober). Vergleichende Daten zur dualen Berufsausbildung in der D-A-CH Region [Podiumdiskussion]. Kontaktseminare deutschsprachiger Berufsbildungsforschungseinrichtungen, Wien, Österreich.

Sorensen, T., & Graf, L. (2023, August). A European Experiment in Governing Teacher Training: The Case of the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies [Presentation]. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Graf, L. (2023, June). Duales Studium and Multilevel Governance [Keynote]. Webinar «The Role of Multilevel Governance in the German Education System», European Union Centre of Excellence (EU Centre) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia. (online)