Victor M. H. Borden
(PhD) is professor of higher education at Indiana University. He previously directed the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2014–2022) to which he still serves as a consultant. Dr. Borden’s general area of scholarship is on the assessment and evidence-informed improvement of higher education programs and institutions. Dr. Borden was a Fulbright Specialist in South Africa and is an active contributor to several professional associations, most notably, the Association for Institutional Research, of which he is a Past President.
Bruno Broucker
(PhD) 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.
Edel Cassar
is the Director Strategy Implementation at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology and a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta. She graduated in Psychology and in Human Resources and Training. She is currently a doctoral candidate focusing on the decision-making processes of Maltese part-time doctoral students.
Bárbara Coelho Gabriel
is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Researcher at TEMA-UA. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, MSc and BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. Her research interests are engineering education, entrepreneurial education and nanoengineering.
Cynthia A. Cogswell
(PhD) has worked in assessment, evaluation, and research since 2011 at private, public, research intensive and Ivy League institutions. In addition to her administrative role, Dr. Cogswell has taught at the graduate level in higher education administration. Her work focuses on strengthening campus efforts to measure and demonstrate impact. She has published more than 20 peer reviewed publications and delivered more than 40 peer reviewed sessions in four countries on an array of topics in higher education.
holds a Master in Urban Planning and Biological Sciences and is GET-AHED project grant holder and doctoral student.
Brigitte Ecker
is Managing Director and founder of WPZ Research, an independent research institute that supports the transfer of basic and applied research into scientific and economic policy practice. Fields of research are RTI policy, education research and innovation, HE research, knowledge transfer and green transformation.
Pınar Eldemir
is a doctoral student and assistant at the Institute of Communication and Public Policy at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Switzerland. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the internationalisation strategies of European higher education institutions.
Klaus Feldmann
is professor (retired) at the University of Hannover. He is a national and international lecturer, author and co-author of textbooks, scientific publications and research reports on issues of education, society and inequality. He is a long-standing research partner of the Education Science Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Cláudia Figueiredo
(PhD, Education) is an assistant researcher at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences of the University of Aveiro. Her main research topics focus Higher Education, particularly skills assessment and well-being.
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 is on the organising committee for the 2024 Cork Forum.
Jussi Kivistö
is a full professor and the Head of Administrative Studies Unit at Tampere University, Finland. He has authored over 130 publications, mainly in the field of higher education management and policy.
researches, teaches, and acts as a consultant on politics and sociology of higher education at Harvard University and University of Ljubljana. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Higher Education and is editor of two book series. Her main research publications are on student agency and student effects on higher education, and student centred learning and teaching.
Theodor Leiber
is a scientific counsellor and higher education researcher at the Evaluation Agency Baden-Württemberg, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Augsburg (Germany). His research focuses on evaluation and quality management in higher education and philosophy of science and ethics.
Nandarani Maistry
has 20 years of experience in higher education and is Director of Institutional Research and Planning at the University of Johannesburg. She holds a doctorate in Higher Education Management and her research interests include systems and strategic thinking.
Sara Moreno Pires
is Assistant Professor of Public Policies at the University of Aveiro, Researcher at GOVCOPP-UA. She has a PhD in Applied Environmental Sciences, an MSc in Development and Planning (Environment and Sustainable Development), and a BSc in Economics. Sara is President of the ENGO Common Home of Humanity.
Takalani Muloiwa-Klenam
is an institutional researcher at the University of Johannesburg, and is responsible for institutional surveys, data briefs and data analytics. She holds a Master’s in Demography and Population Studies and a postgraduate diploma in Business Administration.
Darlington Mutakwa
is a senior manager responsible for enrolment planning and institutional research in the Institutional Planning, Evaluation, and Monitoring Division at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a BSc in Applied mathematics and an MPhil in Demography.
Erna Nairz-Wirth
(Prof. Dr. ao univ.) is Head of the Educational Sciences Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She has designed, conducted, and
Ruaidhri Neavyn
is advisor on Higher Education Policy with the Higher Education Authority and the Department of Education and Skills Ireland. He contributes to the development of current and emerging policies and strategies relevant to the development of Higher Education in Ireland.
Jessica Nooij
(PhD) 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.
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).
Beate Pawle
is Executive Assistant at Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences since 2016. With a background in business administration, she held roles in diverse companies, currently pursuing an MBA with focus on change management and sustainability.
Alexandra Polido
is assistant researcher at GOVCOPP, in the Department of Social Sciences, Politics, and Territory at the University of Aveiro. She is dedicated to researching environmental policies for the sustainable transformation of urban systems. Alexandra holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and Sustainability.
Maria Pöschl
(MSc) is a teaching and research associate at the Education Sciences Group at Vienna University of Economics and Business. She recently started her doctoral studies and is interested in higher education research, resilience & dropout, transition and educational pathways.
completed her doctoral studies in Organization Science at the University of Linz. She holds the position of scientific head of diversity management at UAS Upper Austria and is a researcher in the Department for Higher Education Research and Development there. Her work focuses on change and change management at HEI s. She is involved in international projects in the field of student engagement/student belongingness and diversity management in HE.
Verena Régent
is senior researcher with a focus on higher education research, particularly aspects such as the third mission and innovation, the entrepreneurial university, researchers’ careers and inclusion. Currently, Verena is leading the Erasmus+-funded project GET-AHED on the green transition in higher education.
Lotte Scheeren
works as a Senior Researcher at the Expert Centre for Inclusive Education (ECIO) at CINOP. She has extensive knowledge and expertise in the field of educational research and focuses on topics around inclusive education and student welfare.
Kateryna Suprun
is a doctoral researcher in Administrative Sciences at Tampere University, Finland, and a former civil servant at Ukrainian Government. During 2018–2023 she represented Ukraine in the Bologna Follow-Up Group and several European Commission advisory groups.
Robertt Valente
(PhD) is an associate professor, holding the position of Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2019. His main research areas of expertise and impact on society are applied and computational mechanics; modelling and simulation of manufacturing processes; and engineering education.
Floris J. N. van Berckel Smit
is a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a visiting scholar at Ghent University. He holds an MSc degree in Public Governance and an MA degree in Political History. His research interests focus on (the history of) higher education governance, (new public) management, political history, organizational change, Learning Histories, and oral history. He has published research
Annemieke van der Horst
works as a researcher at Fontys University of Applied Sciences at the research department ‘Learning How to Flourish’ in Eindhoven. Her research focuses on mental well-being and flourishing of students.
Sabine Weiss
(PhD) is a teaching and research associate at the Education Sciences Group at Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her publications and research are in the field of sociology of education with a special interest in working class students and their sense of belonging at universities.