Shaping the World of Change : Higher Education As a Key Enabler

This book sets out the theme of a world that is changing rapidly and higher education being an important agent in shaping that change through knowledge generation, transfer and innovation. The chapters in this book focus on this shaping role of higher education along a number of key areas: governance, sustainability, teaching and learning, student agency, quality and internationalization. From these different topics, this volume presents ways in which higher education helps dealing with and shaping the educational and societal changes that we are facing in the aftermath of the pandemic and challenges that we are expecting in the near future.

Contributors are: Victor M. H. Borden, Bruno Broucker, Edel Cassar, Bárbara Coelho Gabriel, Cindy Cogswell, Julia Draghi, Brigitte Ecker, Pınar Eldemir, Klaus Feldmann, Cláudia Figueiredo, Anne Gannon, Jussi Kivistö, Manja Klemenčič, Theodor Leiber, Nandarani Maistry, Sara Moreno Pires, Takalani Muloiwa-Klenam, Darlington Mutakwa, Erna Nairz-Wirth, Ruaidhri Neavyn, Jessica Nooij, Mark O’Hara, Beate Pawle, Alexandra Polido, Maria Pöschl, Silke Preymann, Verena Régent, Lotte Scheeren, Kateryna Suprun, Robertt Valente, Floris J. N. van Berckel Smit, Annemieke van der Horst and Sabine Weiss.

Jessica Nooij, Ph.D., is Senior Researcher at the Center for Learning and Innovation at Avans University of Applied Sciences and Chair of the Dutch Association for Institutional Research (DAIR). Her background is in behavioural psychology, sociology, intervention and policy research.

Bruno Broucker, Ph.D., is Head of the Education Office of the Institute of Tropical Medicine and Guest Professor at the KU Leuven. He is Chair of EAIR and published articles and book chapters on higher education governance, policy and reform.

Anne Gannon is based at University College Cork (UCC). She completed her PhD at UCC in 2019 on the impact of Government Policy on Institutional Logics in the Irish University between 2008–2014. She is a co-opted member of the EAIR Executive Committee and on the organising committee for the 2024 Cork Forum.

Mark O’Hara is a National Teaching Fellow and winner of the Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence. He has over 30 years’ experience in a variety of roles including Associate Dean and Associate PVC (Education). Mark is Vice-Chair of the European Association for Institutional Research (EAIR).

Silke Preymann holds a Ph.D. in Organization Science at the University of Linz. She is scientific head of diversity management at UAS Upper Austria and a researcher in the Department for Higher Education Research and Development. Her work focuses on change and change management at HEIs.