Agnieszka Bron, professor, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Bron has a Chair in Adult Education with a focus on European Dimension at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. She writes extensively on adult and higher education issues with a comparative and historical perspective. Her research interests range from macro issues - active democratic citizenship, access to higher education of non-traditional students to micro issues - adults learning. In the latter she uses a Life history approach and symbolic interactionism by collecting narratives from adults. Her main research in this field concerns immigrants' life and learning situation in Sweden and female and male research careers. She is engaged in international networks, as co-founder and steering committee member of ESREA - the European Society for Research on Education of Adults; as the convenor of Active Democratic Citizenship Network; and more recently as the editor of BSIAE (Bochum Studies of International Adult Education. This publication gives European researchers whose mother tongue is not English an opportunity to publish their research results and thus contribute to the discussion on important adult education issues. The first volume which appeared in 2000 was entitled: Language- Mobility - Identity. The next two volumes are devoted to: Civil Society and Learning, and Theories in Adult Education. Prof. Bron has worked at several universities, starting with Warsaw (Poland), where she graduated, Toronto (Canada), Uppsala, where she got her habilitation, Linköping, Jönköping (Sweden). She was a guest professor at SUNY, Stony Brook (USA) and at Warwick University (UK). She still has her Ph.D. students and research projects at the Department of Education at Stockholm University. One of the projects is TSER, a project funded by EU with the title: University adult access policies and practices across the European union, and their consequences for the participation of non-traditional adults Her main publications are: Grundtvig, 1986, Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna; Workers and Post-Secondary Education. A Cross Polity Perspective..(1989) .Uppsala, Uppsala Studies in Education 31. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis; Att forskarutbilda sig vid Uppsala universitet. Om kvinnliga och manliga doktorander.1995, Pedagogisk forskning i Uppsala No.120, Uppsala University; Education and Gender in Sweden. Is there any equality? Women's Studies International Forum 1995 Vol. 18, No. 1; The Price of Immigration. Life Stories of Two Poles in Sweden. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 1999 Vol. 36, No. 2; Floating as an analytical category in the narratives of Polish immigrants to Sweden. In: Allvarlig debatt och rolig lek. En festskrift tillägnad Andrzej Nils Uggla, 2000.
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