EAPRIL publishes its own conference proceedings and blog. We collaborate with educational journals for Special Issues to offer insights in practitioner research. In 2025 we started working on our first EAPRIL book: Practice-Based Research in Education, An International Edited Volume.
This edited volume invites contributions on PBR in educational contexts, focusing on research quality as the dynamic interplay between three core pillars: methodological rigor, practical relevance, and ethics. These pillars are inherently interconnected and often create tensions, requiring researchers and practitioners to continuously balance and negotiate trade-offs rather than optimize a single dimension.
Call for Abstracts: Practice-Based Research in Education, An International Edited Volume
We invite researchers, teacher educators, educational professionals, and policymakers to contribute to an international edited volume on Practice-Based Research (PBR) in Education, developed within and inspired by the EAPRIL community.
We particularly welcome contributions that examine how such dilemmas are experienced and addressed in practice, and how dialogue and collaboration between stakeholders can support more context-sensitive approaches to research quality.
The editorial board will actively curate the volume to ensure conceptual coherence and thematic alignment across contributions, avoiding a collection of loosely connected perspectives.
Find all details and requirements in the Call for Abstracts below.
This timeline allows for careful development, meaningful peer interaction, and a high-quality final publication.
22 May 2026
4 September 2026
September 2026
Oktober 2026
end of November 2026
February 2027
April 2027
June 2027
December 2027
March 2028
EAPRIL offers a blog platform to everyone interested in practice-based research. On a regular basis blogs and vlogs by European Practitioner-researchers are published. Please be invited to share your reflections and/or to read our blog and vlog contributions.
If you wish to contribute to the EAPRIL Blog, have an interesting suggestion for a topic or theme, or would like to suggest a colleague to contribute, please do let us know at info@eapril.org. All contributions are welcomed!
EAPRIL provides its delegates with the opportunity to submit their conference paper that has been presented at the conference, to be included in EAPRIL's Official Conference Proceedings (with ISSN). These proceedings are not peer-reviewed, but offer you an opportunity to share your findings with colleagues in the field of practitioner research.
Find our most recent book of abstracts below. This compiles all contributions as presented at the EAPRIL conference.
EAPRIL has a permanent, open call for special issue proposals. If you have an interesting idea for a theme/topic and/or a journal to publish a Special Issue in cooperation with EAPRIL, please contact us!
EAPRIL published three special issues in previous years together with educational journals Vocations and Learning and UAS Journal. All publications are a collection of papers within the field of practitioner research and bring together research and practice in a specific domain.
Practitioner researchers’ current and future visions of education & learning
UAS Special Issue, June 2018.
Bridging the imaginary research and practice gap by responsive learning
UAS Special Issue of November, 2016.
Improving professional practice and competencies with practice-based research
Vocations and Learning Special Issue of April, 2016.