21.12.2019 – ...and the Professorship of Higher Education is out of office to celebrate the holidays until January 5, 2020. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
27.11.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Shaker A. Zahra (University of Minnesota, USA) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, Prof. Zahra will give a talk with the title "Digital technology and the disruption of global business ecosystems".
Time and place: December 11, 2019 / 16:00-17:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
20.11.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Brigita Janiūnaitė (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, November 27, 2019, Prof. Janiūnaitė will give a talk with the title "University teacher as innovator: Assumptions and implications of adaptation of pedagogical innovation".
Time and place: November 27, 2019 / 16:00-17:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
11.11.2019 – Within the context of participating in the doctoral dissertation committees prof. Leišytė was invited to share her insights regarding organizational learning at universities at the Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University Nijmegen and at the Higher Education Organization Studies at the Faculty of Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Her talks will take place in November and December and are based on the findings from DoProfil project and will concentrate on change processes at German universities towards inclusive teacher training.
21.10.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Christine Musselin (Sciences Po, Paris) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, Prof. Musselin will give a talk with the title "Competition versus cooperation in higher education: The French case".
Time and place: November 13, 2019 / 14:15-15:45 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
30.09.2019 – This contribution provides a thorough bibliography overview regarding the characteristics of academics in Europe and the US and the main changes taking place in the academic profession. When reviewing the trends of changing academic profession the emphasis is laid on the country cases within Europe and the US showing similarities and differences in trends of changing academic profession. An increasing percentage of academics in the United States are on non-tenure-track appointments with teaching-only responsibilities. In Europe, precarious faculty positions are also on the rise across a number of higher education systems. Overall, a diversification of faculty roles and activities, as well as intensification of work, can be observed.
Please see: Leisyte, L. & Zeeman, N. (2019). Higher education faculty characteristics and trends in the United States and Europe. In A. Hynds (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in education. New York: Oxford University Press.
30.09.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė will conduct a workshop on "Responsible Governance of Higher Education" at the 5th Summer School of Higher Education Research and Science Studies (HERSS). The interdisciplinary and international summer school will focus on the question of how responsible innovation cultures can be established within institutions of higher education and research, such as universities, and will explore what responsibility in research, development and training might look like in different situated institutional contexts. The Summer School will take place from 14 to 18 October at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
07.08.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė and Benjamin Schiller (PhD student of the chair) will present their paper "Study program innovation in the Triple Helix context" at Triple Helix Conference 2019. In their talk, they will refer to the case of cooperative study programs at a German university of applied science.
05.08.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė will participate in the conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), organized this year by INCHER-Kassel. On August 29 she will present the results of her research on the influence of the Bologna reforms on the Lithuanian higher education system. Her presentation is a part of the track "Governance Models and Translation Processes".
28.06.2019 – Dear students, applications for seminars in the winter semester are coming up! You can find all information regarding the seminars of the Professorship of Higher Education on our teaching website.
We are looking forward to your applications!
19.06.2019 – Gender inequalities in science persist across the EU member states with the underrepresentation of women in the top echelons of scientific hierarchies. With what policy did the EU try to address this problem in the past two decades? What are the challenges that still persist today?
Read more in: Leisyte, L. (2019). Gender in European research policy. In D. Simon, S. Kuhlmann, J. Stamm, & W. Canzler (Eds.), Handbook on science and public policy (pp. 284-315). Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar.
05.06.2019 – Our team member Dr. Mehwish Waheed will attend the Learning International Networks Consortium conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, from 17-20 June, where she will present her findings from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation funded project LeDLe. Her presentation focuses on the question: "Does interaction quality impact students' learning in the digital learning environment? Swedish students' perspective" and the paper is co-authored by prof. Liudvika Leišytė. Her presentation is sponsored by the MIT LINC organizational committee. Specifically, she will discuss the quality of interaction in digital learning environment and its impact of students' learning.
05.06.2019 – The TU Dortmund Digital Lunch meeting will be hosted by prof. Leišytė at zhb and take place on Thursday, 6 June, 12-13 in the CDI Building, Room 114, Vogelpothsweg 78. Prof. Liudvika Leišytė and Dr. Mehwish Waheed will talk about Smart University and the evaluation of digital teaching and learning tools in Sweden and Germany from a student perspective. The presentation is partly based on the results of the Humboldt Foundation funded project conducted by Dr. Waheed. In this project she investigated the satisfaction of Swedish and German students with digital teaching and learning environments in English language master's programmes.
29.05.2019 – How can creativity and entrepreneurial thinking be combined? The authors present a creative teaching and learning concept in engineering, and business administration at the TU Dortmund University that takes into account not only process-oriented areas but also student characteristics.
Read more in: Haertel, T., Terkowsky, C., May, D., Wissemann, S., Leisyte, L., & Rose, A.-L. (2019). Kreativität und Entrepreneurship in der Hochschullehre: personen- und prozessorientierte Lerninhalte. In S. Kauffeld & J. Othmer (Eds.), Handbuch innovative Lehre (pp. 441-451). Wiesbaden: Springer.
16.05.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė will give an invited talk on "Organizational learning at a German university: towards an inclusive university" at the Royal Holloway College on May 20. She will present and discuss the findings from the DoProfiL project.
09.05.2019 – The 4th DoProfiL World Café will take place on June 25, 2019, from 13.30 - 18.30 in the International Meeting Centre (IBZ), Emil-Figge-Straße 59, 44227 Dortmund.
This World Café brings all project participants together once again to reflect on DoProfiL project experiences and to appreciate what has been learned so far. The aim of the World Cafe is also to discuss the knowledge transfer and continuity of the project. We are honoured that Prof. Kalwant Bhopal from the University of Birmingham will give an impetus for discussions through her keynote address on "Black and minority ethnic experiences in higher education: social justice, inclusion and white privilege".
17.04.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė is co-editor of the new publication "Higher Education System Reform: An International Comparison after Twenty Years of Bologna". The Bologna Declaration started the development of the European Higher Education Area. The ensuing Bologna Process has run for already 20 years now. In the meantime many higher education systems in Europe have been reformed – some more drastically than others.
16.04.2019 – Prof. Leišytė has joined the editorial board of the open access journal "Social Inclusion". Social Inclusion is a peer-reviewed journal, which provides academics and policy-makers with a forum to discuss and promote a more socially inclusive society. The journal aims at being an interdisciplinary journal, covering a broad range of topics, such as immigration, poverty, education, minorities, disability, discrimination, and inequality, with a special focus on studies which discuss solutions, strategies and models for social inclusion.
10.04.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Dr. Don Westerheijden (University of Twente, the Netherlands) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, July 3, 2019, Dr. Westerheijden will give a talk with the title "Between transparency and trust: Autonomy, accountability and institutional accreditation in Europe".
Time and place: July 3, 2019 / 16:00-17:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
10.04.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Malmö University, Sweden) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, May 8, 2019, Prof. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt will give a talk with the title "Students as audiences in the cross-media learning world".
Time and place: May 8, 2019 / 16:00-17:30 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 114
20.03.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė will attend the annual conference of the German Association for Higher Education Research (GfHf) on March 21-22 at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. The conference focuses on knowledge production and science communication in a changing working and living environment and prof. Leišytė will chair two sessions on the topic "Transformation of Science" and will participate in the panel discussion "Internationalization of Science – Opportunities and Potentials of International Cooperation – What Role does it play for the Development of Society?".
07.03.2019 – Liudvika Leišytė will give an invited talk on "Dynamics of Protected Spaces in Academia under the Quasi-market Logic" at the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong on March 12. Sponsored by the short-term speaker scheme of the UHK, she will share her findings about the creation and maintenance of protected spaces in academia in the context of governance reforms.
04.03.2019 – Prof. Liudvika Leisyte and Sude Peksen presented the preliminary findings of the Lithuanian part of the APIKS project at the APIKS project conference in Japan "An International and Comparative Study of Academics' Teaching and Research – Activities in the Knowledge Society: Main findings from the APIKS project". Their presentation focused on "Teaching and Research at Lithuanian Universities". The conference was organized by the Research Institute for Higher Education of Hiroshima University, Japan, March 4-5.
22.02.2019 – It is our pleasure to invite you to the guest talk by Prof. Dr. Ray Land (University of Durham, England) at the zhb Higher Education Research Colloquium Series. On Wednesday, February 27, 2019, Prof. Land will give a talk with the title "Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: a transformational approach to learning".
Time and place: Frebruary 27, 2019 / 14:30-16:00 h / zhb / Vogelpothsweg 78 / CDI building / room 0.22
16.01.2019 – Dear students, applications for seminars in the summer semester are coming up! You can find all information regarding the seminars of the Professorship of Higher Education on our teaching website.
We are looking forward to your applications!
