Short biography
My scientific career is multi-faceted and truly interdisciplinary: I graduated (first in my class) with a BSc in Natural Sciences; I hold both a MSc and PhD in Biotechnology; and I have undertaken postdoctoral studies in Materials Engineering. I also hold an MBA in strategy and entrepreneurship. After completing a postdoctoral stint in Materials Engineering and having twins in 2007, I pivoted my professional efforts to focus on education, my career aspiration being to improve education opportunities and quality for future generations. My initial inspiration came out of my experiences as a volunteer science teacher in marginalised communities in the south of Israel during my postdoc. In the last decade or so, I have independently completed background studies in comparative education and sociology of education and have developed a track record of publications on global citizenship education, the global middle class, internationalisation in education and in entrepreneurship in education. I have built, funded, and maintained my own research group.
I have secured a tenure track position, tenure, and promotion to Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University’s School of Education and in 2023 I received Full Professorship position at Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology.
My background in exact sciences has given me a very thorough training, allied to strong capabilities in scientific thinking and a broad scientific knowledge base, fostering my interdisciplinary thinking and creativity. My research group currently includes several MA and PhD students, and 5 Post-Docs. Several former PhD students of mine hold academic positions in leading Israeli universities and colleges and many others hold key roles in Israeli education system (school heads, heads of local educational authorities, teachers etc.).
Research areas
I have experience in leading large scale research projects and in quantitative and qualitative methodology and policy studies. I have developed strong and globally distributed research collaborations: the UK, US, Hong Kong, Argentina, Australia, Italy, Denmark, and Germany, as well as ongoing fruitful collaborations with Israeli peers. Among other innovations, my group was the first to conceptualise a research framework for studying the global-local nexus in schools (Yemini, 2012; Yemini, Bar-Nissan, & Shavit, 2014; Yemini, Yardeni, & Bar-Nissan, 2014) and developed leading reviews around global citizenship education (Yemini et al., 2019; Goren & Yemini, 2017; Goren et al., 2020). In 2013 I was chosen among ‘40 under 40’ by The Marker Magazine.
I have significant experience in editing and co-editing special issues for leading journals in education (listed as Q1 and Q2 by ISI). Examples since 2018 include Discourse on Global Middle Classes (co-edited); International Journal of Educational Development on educational policy in Israel; Future Policies in Education on Internationalisation in Education, the British Journal of Educational Studies on Global Citizenship Education (co-edited), the Journal of Educational Administration on School-NGO partnerships (co-edited), Education, Citizenship and Social Justice on citizenship and education (co-edited), Educational Review on international schooling (co-edited) and Teachers & Teaching on internationalisation in teaching education (co-edited). I also received a Jean Monnet Module grant from the European Commission (EACEA) for teaching and research on internationalisation in education (2016-2019). I was appointed as a co-Chair for the UNESCO chair on Technology and Internationalisation in Education at Tel Aviv University (2015-2023). In 2018, I was awarded a prize for Research Cooperation and High Excellence in Science (ARCHES) by the Max Plank Foundation, which offered €200,000 to develop research and teaching in school-NGO interactions (with Prof. Nina Kolleck). I also secured funding from the (German) Humboldt Foundation, under the framework of scholarships for experienced researchers. I have won research funding from the Israeli Science Foundation (2020-2023) and from the European Research Council CoG (2023-2028). I serve and served the editorial boards of several leading academic journals (British Journal of Sociology of Education, Higher Education Policy, Compare, Journal of Research in Comparative and International Education, Comparative Education Review, Educational Review, and International Journal of Educational Development). I served as an associate editor for Multicultural Education Review and the International Journal of Educational Development. I served as a joint lead editor for International Studies in Sociology of Education.
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