Prof. Dr. Mathias Decuypere

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Professor PHZH

Centre for School Improvement

PH Zurich
Lagerstrasse 2
8090 Zurich

+41 43 305 52 62

mathias.decuypere@phzh.ch

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Mathias Decuypere is a Professor of School Development and Governance at PH Zurich. His research adopts an international, macro-level perspective on educational policymaking and governance. It is interested in how distinct global developments in governance (e.g., behavioural governance, platform governance, synthetic governance) affect local school practices. He hereby adopts a whole school approach towards school development.

Over the last years, Mathias Decuypere has become particularly interested in how schools operate in a condition of digitality nowadays, where digital technologies are embedded in just about every educational practice. In that respect, he investigates how educational technologies can be used to foster pedagogically meaningful digitisation processes in schools. Before working at PH Zurich, he was Associate Professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), where he held a chair in qualitative research methods.

Focus on research, teaching, services

  • Governance (specific emphasis on the macro level)
  • School development, particularly in an age of digitality
  • Transnationalization of education
  • The role of data in learning, teaching, and education
  • Critical edtech studies
  • Qualitative research methods

Some of the research projects:

Publications

  • Decuypere, M., & Perrotta, C. (2026)Atmospheric Analytics: Situated Encounters in the Age of Generative AI. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 0(0).

  • Decuypere, M., et al. (2026)Tracing the infrastructural unfolding of (edtech) events through hybrid team ethnography. Learning, Media and Technology, 51(2), 345–359.

  • Helgetun, J., & Decuypere, M. (2026)Follow-ups versus snapshots: On the necessity of new methodologies and forms of epistemic thought in critical edtech studies. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–19.

  • Tierens, T., Decuypere, M., & Hartong, S. (2026)Navigating open-source platforms in schools: An inquiry into changing teacher professionality. Learning, Media and Technology, 51(1), 75–89.

  • Alirezabeigi, S., & Decuypere, M. (2025)Evaluating datafied time: exploring the multiple temporalities of teachers’ work with digital assessment. Critical Studies in Education, 66(2), 197–212.

  • Ortegon, C., Decuypere, M., & Williamson, B. (2025)«Enthuse and inspire»: edtech brokers and the affective construction of teacher innovation International Studies in Sociology of Education, 35(2), 179–195.

  • Tierens, T., Decuypere, M., Hartong, S., & Alirezabeigi, S. (2025)Pedagogical attachments and Virtual Reality: on immersion with digital technology in school. Critical Studies in Education, 1–19.

  • Tierens, T., Decuypere, M., Hartong, S., & Alirezabeigi, S. (2025)Schooling the (Artificially) Intelligent Writer: GenAI Technologies as Thinking Infrastructures in School Education. Postdigit Sci Educ 7, 1250–1269

  • Vanermen, L., Vlieghe, J., & Decuypere, M. (2025)Learning to dashboard: Modes of producing and deploying data visualising technologies in higher distance education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(3), 341–358.

  • Decuypere, M., Hartong, S., Brandau, N., Joecks, L., Loft-Akhoondi, A., Ortegon, C., Tierens, T., & Vanermen, L. (2024)Maneuvering constellations of valuation: a critical investigation of the edtech startup sector. Critical Studies in Education.

  • Förschler, A. & Decuypere, M. (2024)Where are we heading? Hackathons as a new, relational form of policymaking. Journal of Education Policy.

  • Hartong, S., Decuypere, M., & Lewis, S. (2024)Disentangling the temporalities of digital and predictive governance: Rhythmanalysis as a methodological framework. Time & Society.

  • Nanez, P., Decuypere, M., & Hartong, S. (2024)Unpacking the contextualities of behavioural public policy: a case study of the Peruvian Nudge unit MineduLAB. Journal of Social Policy.

  • Ortegon, C., Decuypere, M., & Williamson, B. (2024)Mediating educational technologies: Edtech brokering between schools, academia, governance, and industry. Research in Education.

    • Ortegon, C., Williamson, B., & Decuypere, M. (2024)Edtech brokers and evidence governance: knowledge intermediaries in the education technology market. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–12.

    • Saari, A. & Decuypere, M. (2024)Governing by prototype and proto-practice: topological configurations of future classroom labs. Journal of Education Policy.

    • Tierens, T., Decuypere, M., & Hartong, S. (2024)Navigating open-source platforms in schools: an inquiry into changing teacher professionality. Learning, Media and Technology.

    • Tierens, T., Decuypere, M., Alirezabeigi, S., & Hartong, S. (2024)Governing through time(s): Temporal modes of governance in digital education policy. British Journal of Sociology of Education.

    • Vanermen, L., Vlieghe, J., & Decuypere, M. (2024)Learning to dashboard: modes of producing and deploying data visualising technologies in higher distance education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

    • Decuypere, M., & Hartong, S. (2023)Edunudge. Learning, Media and Technology.

    • Decuypere, M., & Lewis, S. (2023)Topological genealogy: a methodology to research transnational digital governance in/through/as change. Journal of Education Policy

    • Helgetun, J. & Decuypere, M. (2023)One thing can be more than one thing: a comparative study of the teacher professionalization app «TeacherTapp». Learning, Media and Technology.

    • van de Oudeweetering, K., Knox, J., & Decuypere, M. (2023)Problematizing feedback loops: «on», «with», and «beyond» analytics dashboards in MOOCs. Learning, Media and Technology.

    • Decuypere, M., & Lewis, S. (2024)Platformed Professionalities: What Digital Platforms Do to Teacher Professionality.

    Projects

    Further information

    Educational System

    • Executive Editor of the European Educational Research Journal
    • Co-convenor of EERA network 28 (sociologies of education)
    • European Research Council (ERC) Panel Member (Synergy Grants)
    • Founding member of the STudieS (STS in education) network
    • Member of the DGfE
    • Member of the FWO reviewer college