Notes on Contributors
Melindy Brown
is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University. In addition to her role as a lecturer, Melindy is completing her PhD, focusing on the support within the community for released prisoners whose substance misuse has played a factor in their offence. Melindy’s research mainly focuses on substance misuse, desistance and the probation service. However, she has been involved in many projects regarding gender-based violence, particularly within a Higher Education Setting, including her Master’s thesis titled ‘Women and Their Sense of Safety on Campus’.
Sónia Cardoso
is a researcher both at the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). She completed her PhD in Social Sciences under the topic of Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Her main research interests and publications, in reference journals and books, are within the fields of higher education policies, quality assurance, and institutions and institutional actors’ relation with quality assurance. She is a member of CHER.
Teresa Carvalho
is an Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro. She is a senior researcher at CIPES (Center for Research in Higher Education Policies) and the Director of the PhD program in Public Policies at the University of Aveiro. She is a member of the ESA (European Sociological Association) Executive Committee, as chair of the RN-Council, for 2017–2019. Develops research in public reforms and has a special interest in issues related with the role of professionals in formulating and implementing public policies. The main focus of her current research is the relation between managerialism and academic professionalism with an emphasis on gender issues. She has developed research and published her work in New Public Management; sociology of professions, gender and academic careers in several journals and books.
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo
was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1951. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wales (1982). In the recent past he was: Rector of the University of Porto (June 2014–June 2018); Dean of Engineering; Vice-president of ENAEE-European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education; Chairman of the Working Party on Education of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering. On the 9th of February, 2018, he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate by the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia. He is the recipient of the Dieter Behrens Award, 2013, highest distinction of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.
Casey E. George
PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration and the Assistant Director for the Center for Economic Education at the University of Louisville. Her research efforts are focused on examining postsecondary access and equity for traditionally marginalized populations, with primary attention given to how institutional programs and policies affect students’ access and experiences. Her work has been published in American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Studies in Higher Education, and the Journal of Student Financial Aid.
Magnus Strand Hauge
is a senior adviser at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) where he primarily works with quality enhancement activities as student surveys and indicators on quality in higher education and vocational education. He has previously worked with quality assurance of higher education. He holds BA and MPhil degrees in political science from University of Oslo, Norway.
Jürgen Janger
works as a senior researcher and deputy director at the Austrian Institute of Economic research (WIFO) in Vienna. His main research interests are in the economics of science and innovation where he works on innovation measurement frameworks, determinants of job choice in academia, the attractiveness of academic jobs in a cross-country comparative perspective as well as on impact pathways for university-created knowledge.
Ton Kallenberg (1960)
studied pedagogical sciences at Leiden University and has defended his PhD thesis at Tilburg University. From the 80s he fulfilled several functions on educational management at Leiden University and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Since January 2014 he is Director Education and Student Affairs at the faculty Humanities of Leiden University. His research and publications are focussing on leadership and (middle) management in higher education; on didactics in higher education and on teacher education programs.
David Kane
is Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, UK. David has been a full-time researcher at Birmingham City University since joining the Social Research and Evaluation Unit (SREU) in September 2004. During this time, David has been an active participant in SREU projects including their work relating to social exclusion in the community at large, exploring aspects of prisoner health, offender support and supporting vulnerable people. David is also engaged in SREU’s Higher Education research, particularly aspects of student experience. He has given papers at many EAIR conferences and acted as a track chair when BCU hosted EAIR in 2016. In his spare time(!), David plays guitar, writes songs and escapes the city on his motorcycle.
Tina Klug
is Director of Quality Management and Governing Bodies Department at TU Darmstadt. Before she started at TU Darmstadt in 2009, she was working in international non-profit and research management outside the university. Her background is economy and sociology, her key activities and interests are evaluation, quality management, organizational development, management of governing bodies and university politics.
Cindy Konen
studied business administration in Dortmund (Germany). After her degree, she was an organisational developer at a state bank as well as in the HEI-sector. Currently, she works at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund as a scientific assistant for innovation management of Higher Education Institutions, is a lecturer for business administration and is doing her PhD at the Europa-University Flensburg.
René Krempkow
holds a doctoral degree in sociology of education and currently works at Humboldt-University of Berlin. René focuses on research and consulting in the field of Higher Education Management and Higher Education Research. Former stations of his work were Stifterverband Berlin, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance Berlin, HIS-Institute for Higher Education Development Hannover (HIS-HE), Free University of Berlin, University of Freiburg and Dresden University of Technology.
António M. Magalhães
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto where he acts as Head of the Department of Education Sciences. He is also Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES) and member of its Directive Board. His field of expertise lies on education policy analysis with a focus on higher education policies and also researches on methods of policy analysis. He has coordinated and participated in research projects in these areas and has been publishing in these areas both in Portugal and abroad.
Maria J. Manatos
holds a doctoral degree in Management from the ISEG Lisboa School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa. She is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). Her main research topics are quality management in higher education institutions. She has published her work in higher education and quality management journals.
Simon Marginson
is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education in the UK, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Higher Education. His is also a Lead Research at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and was the Clark Kerr Lecturer on Higher Education at the University of California in 2014. He focuses on global and international aspects of higher education, system design, and higher education and social inequality.
Glen R. Nelson
is the Vice President for Finance and Business Affairs at Idaho State University. He is a higher education practitioner having served in senior leadership roles at several public universities and systems, frequently speaking on topics relevant to university business officers, and was selected as a Fulbright Specialist Roster Candidate. His research focuses on the impact of policy decisions on the educational choices made by students from low-income backgrounds and has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education and on MSNBC. He brings a practice-based perspective to the topic and is a collaborator with Drs. Gregory Wolniak and Casey George on the “Affordability and Transparency Initiative”.
Verena Radinger-Peer
holds a doctor’s degree from the University of Natural Resource and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) in regional development and planning. As FWF-Hertha Firnberg Grant holder at the Institute for Sustainable Economic Development her focus lies on various topics regarding the role of universities for regional development. Her research entails the investigation of effects of decentralized location patterns, migration behaviour of graduates, knowledge transfer and cooperation activities (spin-off foundations, R&D cooperation) and more adaptive roles universities may play for socio-institutional change and regional development (third mission, sustainable development). In recent studies, her work has focused on the role of universities within regional sustainability transitions.
Maria J. Rosa
is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro. She is also a senior researcher at the Center for Research in Higher Education Policies – CIPES. Her main research topic is quality management at both higher education systems and institutions levels. She has coordinated and participated in research projects in this area and has published her work in higher education and quality management journals and books. She is a member of CHER and of EAIR.
Barbara Sporn
is Professor and Director of the Institute for Higher Education Management at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. She served as Vice-Rector for Research, International Affairs and External Relations at WU from 2002 to 2015. Professor Sporn’s experience includes in-depth knowledge of internationalization, research management, and development of universities as well as business school. Her research concentrates on issues of university management, institutional adaptation, and changing environments for universities from an international and comparative perspective. More recently, she has been interested in business modelling and innovation for universities as well as the building of science and excellence clusters of higher education.
Pedro N. Teixeira
is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (Portugal) and Director of CIPES (Center for Research in Higher Education Policies). He is also Special Adviser to the President of Portugal on Higher Education and Science. His main research interests are on the Economics of Education and the History of Economics. He has published several journal articles in higher education and economics journals and has edited several collective volumes.
Amélia Veiga
is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at the University of Porto, Portugal, and researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE) and at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES). Her academic interests focus on education policy analysis, namely on the Bologna process and higher education governance in areas such as internationalisation, globalisation and quality assurance. She has been involved in national and international projects. She has written book chapters and coedited books and published articles on European integration and higher education governance in key journals such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Quarterly.
James Williams
is Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, UK. He is best known for his work on student feedback mechanisms as part of the quality improvement process in higher education and has published extensively in the area. Dr Williams is Associate Editor of the international journal Quality in Higher Education and regularly contributes to various forums in this field.
Mathias Winde
heads the activities in “Higher Education Policy” at the Stifterverband’s capital office. He conducts research on personnel development, competence requirements of companies and cooperation between companies and universities. He previously worked as a researcher in the fields of education, science and innovation at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft in Cologne.
Gregory C. Wolniak
is Associate Professor of higher education at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Higher Education. Wolniak’s research focuses on how socioeconomic trajectories are affected by experiences in college, educational choices, and institutional environments, and the degree to which learning and developmental gains made during college translate to post-college outcomes. He frequently publishes research on the career and economic influences of college, and recently, in collaboration with Drs. George and Nelson, launched the “Affordability and Transparency Initiative” aimed at improving the ways higher education institutions communicate their tuition and cost information to the public. His work has been featured in recent articles appearing in The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Conversation, Inside Higher Education, and MarketWatch. In addition, Wolniak is co-author of How College Affects Students: 21st Century Evidence that Higher Education Works (2016, Wiley/Jossey-Bass).