The network was founded by Bosse Bergstedt (Lund University) and Anna Herbert (Linnaeus University) in 2011. The motivation for the network was to create a platform for the emerging post-structuralist theories in the educational field.
As the theories developed into a stronger focus on posthuman theories, a new name was introduced: Post-approaches to Education. The name was changed through an email decision in 2016 and used for the first time in 2016 at NERA in Helsinki. Aligned with this, the Facebook page with the same name was initiated by Linnea Bodén.
Conveners
Simon Ceder and Camille Eline Andersen, 2022-
Bosse Bergstedt, Anna Herbert and Simon Ceder, 2021
Bosse Bergstedt and Anna Herbert, 2011-2020
Election committee
Teresa Aslanian and Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud, 2025
Linnea Bodén and Tarja Karlsson Häikiö, 2022
The network has continuously arranged preconferences.
| Year and place | Theme | Organizing committee | Invited speaker(s) |
| 2024 Malmö | Mis/ adventures in education: post-approaches to research and learning | Iselin Dagsdotter Sæterdal, Anna Jobér, Sanne Björklund & Teresa K. Aslanian | Jayne Osgood |
| 2023 Oslo | Act iv ism as post-approach – what difference does it make, and what do we do with what it does? | Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Teresa Katherine Aslanian, Nina Odegard and Charlotta Hilli | Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Anna Palmer & Teresa Elkin Postila |
| 2022 Reykjavik | But how do you do? – Theoretical and analytical involvement in post-approaches to educational research | Camilla Johansson Bäcklund, Charlotta Hilli, Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud, Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas | Riikka HohtiMalou Juelskjær |
| 2021 Odense | Quality Criteria for Posthuman Educational Research | Simon Ceder, Agnes Westgaard Bjelkerud, Rachel Sinquefield-Kangas | RERM editors Ann Merete Otterstad, Jayne Osgood, Lotta Johansson & Camilla Eline Andersen |
| 2020 Turku | Posthuman Conceptions of Change in Empirical Educational Research | Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen, Simon Ceder, Virpi Valtonen and Sofie Sauzet | Camilla Eline Andersen (lecture), Pauliina Rautio & Riikka Hohti (dialogical lecture) |
| 2019 Uppsala | Posthumanist transformatory methodologies in education | Karin Gunnarsson, Merete Moe, Sofie Sauzet, and Bosse Bergstedt | Anne Beate Reinertsen (lecture) Simon Ceder & Karin Gunnarsson (presentation and workshop) |
| 2018 Oslo | Diffraction and intra-action in the empirical research process | Merete Moe, Helene Falkenberg, Camilla Nørgaard and Bosse Bergstedt | Lotta Johansson (lecture), Malou Juelskjær (workshop), Helene Falkenberg (lecture), Lise Hovik (workshop), Merete Moe (workshop), Bosse Bergstedt (lecture) |
| 2017 Copenhagen | The material conditions for education, teaching and learning | Helene Falkenberg, Camilla Eline Andersen, Mattias Nilsson och Bosse Bergstedt | Dorthe Staunæs, Hillevi Lenz Taguchi, Malou Juelskjær |