International Organisations and the Rise of a Global Metrological Field

Project Information

METRO

Grant agreement ID: 715125

DOI 10.3030/715125

Project closed

EC signature date 27 March 2017

Start date 1 April 2017

End date 31 October 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 199 805,00

EU contribution € 1 199 805,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Producing decent work indicators: contested numbers at the ILO

Author(s): John Berten
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 458-470, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac017

Prophets, saviours and saints: Symbolic governance and the rise of a transnational metrological field

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: International Review of Education, Issue 66/2-3, 2020, Page(s) 139-166, ISSN 0020-8566
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11159-020-09844-z

Next slide please: the politics of visualization during COVID-19 press briefings

Author(s): William Allen, Justyna Bandola-Gill and Sotiria Grek
Published in: Journal of European Public Policy, 2023, ISSN 1350-1763
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2160784

What is co-production? Conceptualising and understanding co-production of knowledge and policy across different theoretical perspectives

Author(s): Justyna Bandola-Gill, Megan Arthur, Rhodri Leng
Published in: Evidence and Policy, 2022, ISSN 1744-2648
Publisher: The Policy Press
DOI: 10.1332/174426421x16420955772641

Statistical entrepreneurs: the political work of infrastructuring the SDG indicators

Author(s): Justyna Bandola-Gill
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 498-512, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac013

Constructing known un-knowns: International Organisations and the strategic making of non-knowledge

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: Les Dossiers des Sciences de l’Éducation, Issue volume 45, 2021, Page(s) pp 117-140, ISSN 1296-2104
Publisher: Presses Universitaires du Midi

Where science met policy: governing by indicators and the OECD’s INES programme

Author(s): Sotiria Grek, Christian Ydesen
Published in: Globalisation, Societies and Education, Issue 19/2, 2021, Page(s) 122-137, ISSN 1476-7724
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2021.1892477

The rise of the reflexive expert? Epistemic, care-ful and instrumental reflexivity in global public policy

Author(s): Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek and Marlee Tichenor
Published in: Global Social Policy, 2023, ISSN 1468-0181
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14680181221145382

Hybrid knowledge production and evaluation at the World Bank

Author(s): Kate Williams
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 513-527, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac009

When indicators fail: SPAR, the invisible measure of pandemic preparedness

Author(s): Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 528-540, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac024

Participatory methodologies and caring about numbers in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda

Author(s): Isabel Rocha de Siqueira, Lais Ramalho
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 486-497, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac016

The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance

Author(s): Justyna Bandola-Gill
Published in: Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021, ISSN 1744-2648
Publisher: The Policy Press
DOI: 10.1332/174426420x16000980489195

Securing organisational survival: a historical inquiry into the OECD’s work in education during the 1960s

Author(s): Christian Ydesen, Sotiria Grek
Published in: Paedagogica Historica, 2019, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0030-9230
Publisher: Centre for Study of History of Education
DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2019.1604774

Global public policy in a quantified world: Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures

Author(s): Marlee Tichenor, Sally E Merry, Sotiria Grek, Justyna Bandola-Gill
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 431-444, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac015

The education Sustainable Development Goal and the generative power of failing metrics

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: Policy and Society, Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 445-467, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac020

Statistical capacity development and the production of epistemic infrastructures

Author(s): Marlee Tichenor
Published in: Policy and Society, 2022 [Peer Reviewed Journal], Issue volume 41, issue 4, 2022, Page(s) pp 541-554, ISSN 1449-4035
Publisher: University of Sydney
DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac023

"""Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education"""

Author(s): Sotiria Grek, Ian Russell
Published in: European Educational Research Journal, 2023, ISSN 1468-0181
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14749041231170518

Metrics

Author(s): Marlee Tichenor
Published in: Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2020, ISSN 2398-516X
Publisher: Cambridge University
DOI: 10.29164/20metrics

Monographic books (2)

Governing the Sustainable Development Goals. Quantification in Global Public Policy

Author(s): Justyna Bandola-Gill
Published in: Sustainable Development Goal Series, 2022, ISBN 978-3-031-03937-9
Publisher: Springer/Palgrave Macmillan
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-03938-6

World Yearbook of Education 2021 - Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education

Author(s): Sotiria Grek, Christian Maroy and Antoni Verger
Published in: Issue 1st Edition, 2020, ISBN 9781003014164
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003014164

Book chapters (5)

"Fabricating ""non-knowledge"": International organizations and the numerical construction of an evaluative world"

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: A Research Agenda for Evaluation, 2021, ISBN 9781839101076
Publisher: Edward Elgar

The construction of SDG4: Reconciling democratic imperatives and technocratic expertise in the making of global education data?

Author(s): Sotiria Grek and Clara Fontdevila
Published in: World Yearbook of Education 2021: Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education, 2020, ISBN 9780367856502
Publisher: Routledge

Researching Education Elites twenty years on: Sex, Lies and …Skype

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research, 2021, ISBN 9780367642280
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003123613

Beyond winners and losers: Ranking visualizations as alignment devices in global public policy

Author(s): Justyna Bandola-Gill, Sotiria Grek
Published in: Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2021, Page(s) p27-52, ISBN 9781801171052
Publisher: Emerald Publishing

Interdependency in Education Goverrnance

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: Handbook of Education Policy Studies, 2020
Publisher: Springer

Other (2)

The rise of transnational education governance and the persistent centrality of the nation

Author(s): Sotiria Grek
Published in: Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education, Issue 2 per year, 2019, Page(s) 10, ISSN 2192-4295
Publisher: Kilnkhardt

Essential universal health coverage needs local capacity development

Author(s): Marlee Tichenor
Published in: The Lancet Global Health, Issue 8/6, 2020, Page(s) e748-e749, ISSN 2214-109X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/s2214-109x(20)30224-2