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Pieter Vanden Broeck

Chercheur qualifié FNRS, Professeur

SSH/IACS Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS)

SSH/ESPO Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales, politiques et de communication (ESPO)

  • Expertise :
  • Algorithmic Management
  • Sociology of Professions
  • Organization Theory
  • Sociology of Education
  • Sociological Theory

Bio

PIETER VANDEN BROECK is FNRS Research Associate (Chercheur qualifié) and Professor at UCLouvain, Belgium. He currently studies how algorithms reconfigure professional work and organizational life. Previously, he held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship at Columbia University and was a researcher at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia. With David Stark, he is coauthor of “Principles of Algorithmic Management” (Organization Theory, 2024).

Internal roles

Research projects

Ongoing
  • Learning Machines

A survey of the disparate shapes algorithmic management takes in professional work and organizational life.

Past

A follow-up study on platforms, the teaching profession, and the algorithmic management of learning, courtesy of Italy's Ministry for Research. 

A study on how digital learning platforms shape education as a global affair, courtesy of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action program.

Unités d'enseignement pour 2026

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Selected Publications 

Vanden Broeck, P., & Stark, D. (2026). What knowledge claims: the teaching profession meets algorithmic management. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 24(7).

  https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2026.2741906

Stark, David & Pieter Vanden Broeck (2024). Principles of Algorithmic Management. Organization Theory, 5(2).

  https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877241257213

Vanden Broeck, Pieter. (2023). The rats under the rug: The morphogenesis of education in a global context. In Mattei, P, et al. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on Education and Globalization (pp. 385–403). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197570685.013.44

Vanden Broeck, Pieter & Mangez, Eric (2020). Ambiguous Coexistence and Social Transaction: on a Sociology of Opacity and Institutionalized Discretion. The American Sociologist, 51(2).

  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-020-09444-2

Vanden Broeck, Pieter (2020). Beyond school: Transnational differentiation and the shifting form of education in world society. Journal of Education Policy, 35(6).

  https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2019.1652769

2021
Document de travail

Vanden Broeck, P. (2021). Au-delà de l’école. La morphogenèse de l’éducation transnationale comme processus de différentiation dans une société-monde (Cahiers du Girsef 125).


Monographie

Decuypere, M., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2021). Education in flux: Studies on time, forms and reform. Routledge.


Chapitre de livre

Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2021). The construction of worlds: On the function and fiction of quantified data in education policy. In Sotiria Grek, Christian Maroy, Antoni Verger (ed.), World Yearbook of Education 2021: Accountability and Datafication in the Governance of Education (p. p. 3-20). Routledge.


Article de journal

Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2021). Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education. European Educational Research Journal, 20(6), 705-718. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041211041867 (Original work published 2021)


2020
Article de journal

Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). Beyond school. Transnational differentiation and the shifting form of education in world society. Journal of Education Policy, 35(6), 836-855. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2019.1652769 (Original work published 2020)


Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). The history of the future and the shifting forms of education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(6), 676-687. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1708329 (Original work published 2020)


Vanden Broeck, P., & Mangez, E. (2020). Ambiguous Coexistence and Social Transaction: on a Sociology of Opacity and Institutionalized Discretion. The American Sociologist, 51(2), 172-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-020-09444-2 (Original work published 2020)


Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). The problem of the present: On simultaneity, synchronisation and transnational education projects. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(6), 664-675. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1707662 (Original work published 2020)


Decuypere, M., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). Time and educational (re-)forms—Inquiring the temporal dimension of education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(6), 602-612. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1716449 (Original work published 2020)


Thèse

Vanden Broeck, P. (2020). Observing transnational education : steps towards a morphology of world society.


2019
Papier de conférence

Vanden Broeck, P. (2019). When Nation-states Speak Europese. On Consensus, Epistemic Subsidiarity And Double Binds Inside Europe’s Education Committee. European Conference on Educational Research, Hamburg.


2018
Papier de conférence

Vanden Broeck, P. (2018). Mirroring school. A systems theoretical outline of the differentiation of transnational education in Europe. European Conference on Educational Research, Bolzano.


2017
Papier de conférence

Vanden Broeck, P. (2017). The Problem of the present. Simultaneity and conflict potential in transnational education projects. European Conference on Educational Research, Copenhagen.


2016
Chapitre de livre

Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2016). Au-delà des inégalités. Pour une autre perspective sociologique. In Pierre-Joseph Laurent (dir) (ed.), Tolérances et radicalismes : que n’avons-nous pas compris ? Le terrorisme islamiste en Europe (p. p. 121-137). Couleur Livres.


Papier de conférence

Vanden Broeck, P., & Mangez, E. (2016). Learning as a norm. European Conference on Educational Research, Dublin.


2015
Papier de conférence

Vanden Broeck, P., & Mangez, E. (2015). Between Semantic and Structure: Making Sense of Europe’s Governance of Education. European Conference on Educational Research, Budapest.


2014
Papier de conférence

Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2014). “Speaking Truth to Power”? On the Challenges of Collaborative Research through European Funding. European Conference on Educational Research, Porto.


Chapitre de livre

Mangez, E., & Vanden Broeck, P. (2014). Meeting expectations. On the challenges of collaborative research through European funding. In M. Lawn and R. Normand (ed.), Shaping of European Education. Interdisciplinary Approach. Routledge. Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315796581


2013
Papier de conférence

Vanden Broeck, P. (2013). On Luhmann’s Political System. Lessons For and From Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields. ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux.


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