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Liudvika Leisyte's research focuses on academic work and organizational transformation in the context of changing institutional environment.
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Prof. Leisyte has published three books, a number of chapters in edited books and peer-reviewed articles in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Public Administration, Public Management, Science and Public Policy. In 2008 she received the Early Career Best Paper Award in the PRIME conference in Mexico City for the paper on professional autonomy of university research units. In 2008 she was awarded a postdoctoral fellow position in the Visiting Scholars Programme at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. During her stay at the Center she pursued research on university linkages with industry in high-tech research units, comparing the United States and Europe and carried out the study on the implementation of the Bologna reforms in Lithuania.
She holds an MPhil degree in International Comparative Education from Oslo University and PhD degree in Public Management from the University of Twente. Ten years’ experience at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente meant acquisition, involvement in and managing various research projects in the field of higher education and research policy, governance and management of universities and academic practices funded by the DFG, the EU, various national governments and higher education institutions. Since 2003 she has been a coordinator of institutional evaluations of the European University Association’s Institutional Evaluation Programme.
Prof. Leisyte is the member of the editorial boards of Higher Education Policy, European Journal of Higher Education, Triple Helix, Acta Pedagogica Vilnensis, a chair or member of the board of various non-profit organizations (e.g. LNVH, Futura Scientia, Female Faculty Network Twente). She is the co-convener of Network 22 (Research in Higher Education) at EERA / ECER (European Educational Research Association / European Conference on Educational Research) and member of the Board of German Higher Education Research Association.
ASA – American Sociological AssociationAOM – Academy of ManagementLNVH – Dutch Network of Women ProfessorsEARLI – European Association for Research on Learning and InstructionEGOS – European Group of Organizational Studies4S – Society for Social Studies of ScienceCHER – The Consortium of Higher Education ResearchersCES – The Council for European StudiesEERA – European Educational Research AssociationGfHf – Gesellschaft für HochschulforschungDHV – Deutscher HochschulverbandNetzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW
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Prof. Liudvika Leisyte introduces the Professorship of Higher Education.
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Participation in the University of Pittsburgh's European Studies Center's monthly virtual roundtables series at September 17, 2015. Topic: "Back to School at What Cost? Comparing Higher Education Models in the US and Europe".