Notes on Contributors
Tommaso Agasisti
is full Professor at Politecnico di Milano School of Management. His research interests deal with economics and management of public sector, with special focus on analyzing the efficiency and performance of universities, schools and local governments. He is the Associate Editor of the academic journal Higher Education Quarterly.
Bruno Broucker
PhD, 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 several articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on higher education governance and reform.
Martina Dal Molin
is a Research Fellow at the National Institute for Nucleare Physics and Adjunct Professor at the School of Engineer at university Carlo Cattaneo LIUC. Her research interests deal with public sector management and performance evaluation, with a specific focus of universities and public research centers.
Eva M. de la Torre
PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and Public Finance of UAM. She held the position of Technical Expert at the stakeholder board (Consejo Social) of UAM. Her research interest is in higher education economics.
Kurt De Wit
PhD in Sociology, is head of the Data Management Unit of the Education Policy Department at KU Leuven (Belgium). He publishes on governance reforms, use of (big) data, and ICT use of students in higher education.
Andrew G. Gibson
is PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), researching the sociology of higher education and the Irish Defence Forces. He lectures in TCD and has consulted for the OECD on a number of international higher education reviews.
Ellen Hazelkorn
is partner, BH Associates Education Consultants, and Professor Emeritus, Technological University Dublin. She is joint editor of Policy Reviews in Higher Education, international co-investigator of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), London, and Research Fellow of the Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College. She was awarded the EAIE Tony Adams Award for Excellence in Research, 2018. Ellen is internationally recognized for her writings and analysis of university rankings, and on higher education policy.
Gergely Kováts
is the managing director of the Center for International Higher Education Studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB). He is also an associate professor of the Institute of Management at CUB, where he teaches organization theories and public management and a senior adviser to the Directorate of Strategy and Quality Development. His current research interest is focused on the role of trust in the governance of higher education systems and institutions.
Liudvika Leišytė
PhD in Public Administration, is professor of Higher Education, visiting senior scholar at CHEPS, University of Twente and vice director of the Center of Higher Education, TU Dortmund University in Germany. She has widely published on the topics of university governance reforms, university organizational transformation, quality in higher education, professional autonomy and academic productivity in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and handbooks in higher education and science studies. In 2018 she received the Emerald Literati Award for the article on university transformation in The Learning Organization journal. She is a member of editorial boards of Triple Helix, European Journal of Higher Education, and Higher Education Policy. She is co-convenor of the higher education network of the EERA and serves on the International Advisory Board of the Hungarian Higher Education Accreditation Agency.
Lisa Lucas
PhD, is Reader in Higher Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Knowledge, Culture and Society in the School of Education, University of Bristol. Her research focuses on policy reform, funding and issues of equity in higher education.
António Magalhães
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, Portugal, where he acts as Head of Department of Education Sciences. He is senior researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). He has written and coedited numerous books and published articles in major journals in the higher education field.
Sude Peksen
is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Professorship of Higher Education at the Technical University of Dortmund. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Sociology from the University Duisburg-Essen in 2014 and 2016.
Carmen Perez-Esparrells
PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Public Finance of UAM. She held the positions of Vice-Rector for Innovation at UAM and of Associate Researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Spanish Ministry of Finance.
Rosalind Pritchard
is emeritus professor of Ulster University where she served as Head of the School of Education and research co-ordinator. She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Palle Rasmussen
is emeritus professor of education and learning at the Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has considerable experience from research on higher education as well as on European collaboration in education.
Anna-Lena Rose
is a PhD student and research and teaching assistant at the Professorship of Higher Education at the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University, Germany.
Christine Teelken
is Associate professor at the VU University Amsterdam. Her research interests involve higher education reform, diversity in higher education and quality assessment. She is link convenor at the higher education network of the EERA and published widely in many higher education journals.
Jani Ursin
PhD, is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research has focused on quality assurance in higher education, mergers of Finnish universities and learning outcomes in higher education.
Amélia Veiga
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, Portugal, researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). Her interests focus on education policy analysis and higher education governance. She has published her work in international books and key journals.
Jef C. Verhoeven
PhD, was Professor of Sociology at the KU Leuven (1970–2006) and is since 2006 emeritus professor. He established the Centre for Sociology of Education at the KU Leuven (1977) and was head of this centre. His recent publications are about higher education and the use of ICT, the access of Chinese ethnic minorities to Higher Education, and higher education policy.
Nadine Zeeman
is a consultant Social Affairs at Ecorys, a research based consulting firm in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her areas of research interest include policy analysis, research governance and research management, and employment and regional involvement.
Rimantas Zelvys
is Head of the Education Policy Centre at Vilnius University and former Vice-Rector of Vilnius Pedagogical University. He worked as a consultant and expert for the World Bank, the OECD and the European Commission for different educational projects in post-communist countries. His fields of research are comparative education, education policy and management and education reforms.