Kicking off the EER Reading Club -The Handbook of Engineering Research Series

Engineering Education Research is not only a growing but also a fastly maturing research field.The goal of the SEFI Special Interest Group (SIG) of Engineering Education Research is to support the growth and maturing of the engineering education research community in Europe and beyond.With this workshop the SIG launched a new initiative to support the community: a reading club around the recent “International Handbook of Engineering Education Research” (Johri, 2023).The goal of this reading club is to (1) increase the knowledge around engineering education research methodology, (2) to strengthen the engineering education community feeling, and (3) to give a platform to the authors of the handbook's chapters to disseminate their work.The workshop was be the official kick-off of the reading club, which will be continued throughout the coming year in collaboration with other SEFI SIG's using the platform of the SEFI@work sessions.In this first session, Jenni Case presented the handbook's 7th chapter: “The Role and Use of Theory in Engineering Education Research”.