05.12.2016 – Now published: Leisyte, Liudvika; Rose, Anna-Lena (2016): The challenges of attracting and retaining academic talent. Central and Eastern European perspectives. In: Journal of the European Higher Education Area, 04/2016, pp. 61-82.
05.12.2016 – Prof. Rosemary Deem's talk "(Why) Should we value teaching in research-intensive universities? Reflections on academic work, initiatives on teaching, leadership of teaching and Teaching Excellence Frameworks" is available for download now.
30.11.2016 – At the conference Gülsen Sevdiren presented central previous findings of measure 3 of the DoProfiL project: "Konzeptionelle Vielfalt von Diversität und Heterogenität in der LehrerInnenbildung".
21.11.2016 – Just published: Prof. Liudvika Leisyte is co-editor of the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Changes in Social and Business Environment (CISABE'2016). The conference took place in Panevezys, Lithuania, April 28-29, 2016.
16.11.2016 – Prof. Leisyte will present a paper on the topic "Shifting Governance Arrangements and Protected Spaces in Universities" in Newport, UK, at the SRHE Annual Research Conference 2016 "Exploring Freedom and Control in Global Higher Education", December 9. She also will be co-convenor of the Symposium R 10: Effects of changing governance on the autonomy and control of higher education in Germany and the United Kingdom.
14.11.2016 – Just published:
Leisyte, Liudvika; Hosch-Dayican, Bengü (2017): Gender and academic work at a Dutch university. In: Eggins, Heather (Ed.): The changing role of women in higher education. Academic and leadership issues. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. pp. 95-117.
07.11.2016 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Dr. Rosemary Deem (Royal Holloway, University of London) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. Rosemary Deem will give a talk with the title "(Why) Should we value teaching in research-intensive universities? Reflections on academic work, initiatives on teaching, leadership of teaching and Teaching Excellence Frameworks".
Time and place: November 29, 2016 / 10:00-11:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
17.10.2016 – Prof. Teichler will talk about the "Potentials and Challenges of Comparative Surveys of the Academic Profession". Directly afterwards, Prof. Zelvys will give a talk with the title "Governance of Lithuanian universities – distribution of powers, decision-making and possibilities of change".
Time and place: November 2, 2016 / 16:00-17:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
22.09.2016 – Dr. Bruno Broucker and Dr. Kurt de Wit (University of Leuven) will give a talk with the title "Higher Education for Public Value: orienting the post-NPM reform debate". In their talk, they will (1) identify the flaws of New Public Management as a paradigm for university-reform, (2) provide an understanding of public value for higher education and (3) present a new model for reform, with inclusion of the concept of public value. Derived from this model, they will formulate an agenda for future research.
07.09.2016 – Prof. Leisyte, Anna-Lena Rose and Frauke Logermann are attending the CHER 2016, 29th Annual Conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, September 5-7, 2016 at Queen's College, University of Cambridge. Liudvika Leisyte and Prof. Uwe Wilkesmann organize the panel "New Ways of Organizing Academic Work".
05.09.2016 – Just published:
Broucker, Bruno; De Wit, Kurt; Leisyte, Liudvika (2016): Higher education reform: A systematic comparison of ten countries from a new public management perspective. In: Pritchard, Rosalind M. O.; Pausits, A.; Williams, J. (eds): Positioning higher education institutions. From here to there. Rotterdam, Boston, Taipei: Sense Publishers, pp. 19-39.
13.07.2016 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Dr. Christian Schmid (zhb, TU Dortmund University) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. Based on Bordieu's theory of practice and his concept of interest, Dr. Schmid will discuss the case of managerial governance for the social organisation and organizability of academic teaching.
09.07.2016 – Liudvika Leisyte will present a paper on the topic "Stability and change in power relations at Dutch universities" in Naples, Italy, at the 32nd EGOS Colloquium (European Group for Organizational Studies), July 7-9. The presentation is part of sub-theme 53 "Power over Modern Universities".
01.07.2016 – Liudvika Leisyte will present a paper on the topic "Organizational work arrangements and gendered academic careers: The case of the Netherlands" in Keele, UK, at the Gender, Work & Organization Conference 2016.
09.06.2016 – Leisyte, Liudvika: Top Down or Bottom Up? In: Inside Higher Education, The World View Blog, May 9, 2016.
09.05.2016 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Dr. Francisco Ramirez at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Prof. Ramirez will identify and critically discuss three trends in the intensification of the socially embedded university: 1) increased entrepreneurship linked to institutional advancement goals, 2) increasingly empowered individuals linked to ideas about individual rights and human potential, and 3) increased legalization as cultural adaptation to increased entrepreneurship and empowered individuals.
18.04.2016 – NEW: Liudvika Leisyte (2016): New public management and research productivity – a precarious state of affairs of academic work in the Netherlands. In: Studies in Higher Education, vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 828-846.
15.04.2016 – Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education: Teaching, learning, and identities, edited by Prof. Liudvika Leisyte and Prof. Uwe Wilkesmann.
This edited collection explores how managers influence teaching, learning and academic identities and how new initiatives in teaching and learning change the organizational structure of universities. "Organizing Academic Work in Higher Education" provides a conceptual frame of organizational change in universities in the context of New Public Management reforms and links it to the core activities of teaching and learning.
13.04.2016 – Just published:
Dee, Jay & Leisyte, Liudvika (2016): Organizational learning in higher education institutions: Theories, frameworks, and a potential research agenda. In: Paulsen, Michael B. (Ed.): Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, vol. 31. Cham, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, S. 275-348.
04.04.2016 – Prof. Liudvika Leisyte and Anna-Lena Rose will be attending the 11th annual conference of GfHf in Munich at April 7-8, 2016. At the GfHf conference Julia Mergner will present her poster "Zum Verhältnis zwischen zentralen und dezentralen Organisationseinheiten am Beispiel des Qualitätspakt Lehre".
16.03.2016 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Daniel Pittich (University of Siegen) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, April 20th 2016, Prof. Dr. Daniel Pittich will give a talk with the title "Kompetenzorientiertes Lehren und Lernen in der Hochschullehre – Theoretische Ausgangspunkte und praktische Umsetzung". Taking dispositional approaches to competency-modeling as a starting point, Prof. Pittich will present an outline of student-centred teaching methods and discuss their possible implementation in higher education settings.
04.02.2016 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Sigrid Quack at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. In the talk, Prof. Sigrid Quack, Professor for Sociology with a focus on Comparative Sociology (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Yasemin Ciftci, BA, will present a pilot study on "Cross-border careers in environmental NGOs". They examine the emerging transnational labor markets for NGO staff through the lens of cross-border careers of individuals working for international NGOs.
08.01.2016 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series on Wednesday, February 10th, 2016. In her talk, Ruth Müller (Assistant Professor for Science & Technology Policy at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the TU München), will discuss the continuously accelerating working pace in academia and its implications for contents and formats of academic knowledge production on at least three levels: epistemic risk taking, collaboration behaviour and practices of supervision.
17.12.2015 – Title of the talk: Reconstruction of innovation journeys
Time and place: January 7, 2016, 10:15-11:45 h / Seminarraumgebäude 1 - 1.023