Higher Education: Linking Research, Policy and Practice

Bruno Broucker, Ph.D., is guest professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute (Belgium), research fellow at the Leuven Economics of Education Research Centre and higher education expert at the Institute of Tropical Medicine. He is member of the executive committee of EAIR – the European Higher Education Society and has published articles and chapters on higher education governance and reform.

Ton Kallenberg studied pedagogical sciences (didactics with as specialization organization & policy) at Leiden University, and defended his PhD thesis at Tilburg University. He fulfilled several functions on educational management at Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Open University. He has been linked as Professor at the School of Education at Leiden University of Applied Sciences. Currently he is Director Education and Student Affairs at the faculty Humanities of Leiden University. His research and publications are focussing on (academic) leadership in education; policy and organization in education; on didactics in higher education and on teacher education programs.

Rosalind Pritchard is Emeritus Professor of Education at Ulster University where she was Head of the School of Education and Co-ordinator of Research. She holds an Honours degree in Modern Languages and Literature (German and French) together with two Master's degrees, one in Education and one in General and Applied Linguistics. She established the UU Master's in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), a degree that combines theory with professional skills and includes a teaching practice in Hungary. Her research interests are in higher education, especially German/British comparisons (neo-liberalism; institutional mergers and linkages; gender issues); also ESOL (especially cross-cultural adaptation and teaching strategies). She is a Senior Distinguished Research Fellow of her University, a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences, an Honorary Member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education, Secretary of the European Association for Institutional Research and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She has held grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Council for International Education, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Higher Education Innovation Fund. She has published over eighty books/ chapters/ articles. Two books giving a flavour of her work are The End of Elitism? The Democratisation of West German Universities (Berghahn, 1990) and Neoliberal Developments in Higher Education: the United Kingdom and Germany (Peter Lang, 2011).

Kurt De Wit, Ph.D. in Sociology, is coordinator of the Data Team of the Teaching and Learning Services at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. In that function he carries out institutional research in the framework of the institution's policy on education, students, and diversity and inclusion. Kurt's current research interests include higher education system reform, higher education governance and management, the public value of higher education, the roles of ICT for university students, and diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. His most recent publications include papers in Higher Education Research & Development, Public Administration, Higher Education Policy, and Studies in Higher Education. Kurt serves on the Executive Committee of EAIR – The European Higher Education Society and is editor-in-chief of its peer-reviewed journal, Tertiary Education And Management.

Series Editors:

Bruno Broucker, KU Leuven, Belgium
Ton Kallenberg, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Rosalind Pritchard, Ulster University, UK
Kurt De Wit, KU Leuven, Belgium