Luiz Alonso de Andrade
PhD, is a researcher and university teacher at the administrative sciences unit in the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Luiz’s recent research targets digitalisation and hybridity in higher education, social security policy, bureaucratic decision-making, and digital self-services. Luiz also worked as a manager in Brazilian national social security, where he led collaborative governance and digitalisation projects.
Michael O. Asante
is a PhD research fellow at the department of government, University of Bergen, Norway. His research interest lies in Interest groups, Organizational Resilience, Higher Education, Public Sector Leadership, Nordic regions, Organizational Reforms, Labour and Labour Movements, and Globalization. A motivated and energetic individual with strengths in research, leadership, communication, and team-management.
Lars Geschwind
is a Professor in Engineering Education Policy and Management and coordinator of the research group HEOS (Higher Education Organization Studies). His main research interests are higher education policy, institutional governance, academic leadership and management, and academic work.
Tina Hedmo
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business Studies at Uppsala University. Her research is mainly focused on changes in the governance and management of the public sector in Sweden and how hybrid professionals manage institutional complexity.
Jan-Erik Johanson
is a Professor of Administrative Science and Director of the research group on Public Management & Governance at Tampere University, Finland. Jan-Erik has compiled ten books and plenty of other pieces of research. He is engaged in the examination of hybridity and goal oriented action in government. Jan-Erik is co-editor of Public Policies for Hybrid Governance (Elgar, 2025).
is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. Her research interests focus on the social and ecological responsibility of higher education and the justifications underpinning these practices, with a particular emphasis on discourse analysis and ethnographic methods. Her current work explores the ecological and social (ecosocial) sustainability of higher education, including how these concepts are embedded in policies and practices. Recently, she has also been exploring the lived realities and experiences of academic professionals navigating between excellence and misery.
Tommi Kärkkäinen
is a doctoral researcher in Higher Education Group, Tampere University, Finland. Kärkkäinen’s dissertation focuses on interaction between researchers and stakeholders, especially policymakers. His studies have addressed the role and building of policymakers’ capacity in collaborative research. In recent years Kärkkäinen has worked as a researcher for the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies in a project that looked to develop impact assessment in Finland. He has also worked at the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters participating in the production of a course and a handbook on science-for-policy practices and contributing to development of research-policy interaction in Finland.
Kerttu Kettunen
(DSc) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Innovation at the University of Agder School of Business and Law. Her research spans organization theory, marketing studies, and higher education. She is particularly interested in the history of management education, international accreditation processes, and the dynamics of competition among business schools. Her recent work focuses on how perceptions of corporate brand, reputation, status, and legitimacy are shaped by organizational stakeholders within social media communities. Kerttu has published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Management Inquiry, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Studies in Higher Education.
Harri Laihonen
is a Professor of Health and Social Management at the University of Eastern Finland. He has specialized in knowledge management and performance management and is interested in improving the understanding of organizational performance in different organizational settings and designing performance
Stefan Lundborg
PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Higher Education Organization Studies (HEOS) research group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and was previously the Chief Audit Executive of Örebro University. His research interests concern the academic profession and higher education governance.
Marjukka Mikkonen
PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. Her publications include articles and book chapters on the themes of (board) governance, leadership positions and gender especially in the contexts of higher education and sport.
Reetta Muhonen
(PhD., Sociology) is a sociologist oriented towards science and higher education studies. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Higher Education Group, Tampere University, Finland. Her recent publications focus on topics including research evaluation and the societal impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), as well as other areas of higher education and science policy. Muhonen is the Editor-in-Chief of Tiedepolitiikka [Science Policy] and currently leads a Research Council of Finland-funded project on academic work (2024–2028).
Elias Pekkola
is an Associate Professor of Security Governance at Tampere University, where he also serves as Vice Dean for Education in the Faculty of Management and Business. His research focuses on public administration, crisis management, and security governance. Dr. Pekkola has co-edited several books and contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications. His recent work includes studies on leadership in crisis resilience and the dynamics of public administration in complex hybrid environments
Motolani Peltola
PhD, is a university lecturer at the faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Her primary areas of research interest are in Sino-Africa relations, human resource management, and human capital development and capacity building in Africa.
is a doctoral researcher with the Finnish Institute of Educational Research and the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä. Marc uses primarily qualitative techniques to study higher education crisis leadership and staff well-being at Finnish educational organizations. Marc has a masters’ degree in educational sciences from the University of Jyväskylä and a masters’ degree in biology from Arizona State University, USA. Before moving to Finland, Marc worked as a Professor of Biological Sciences for nearly 20 years at Orange Coast College, an 18,000-student community college in California, USA. Marc lives in Jyväskylä, Finland with his wife and two cats.
Rómulo Pinheiro
is Professor of Public Policy and Administration and Deputy Head of Dep. for Political Science and Managament at the University of Agder, Norway. Rómulo’s research interests are located at the intersection of public policy and administration, organisational theory, economic geography, innovation and higher education studies.
Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen
(Dr., Docent) is a senior researcher at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä. She holds a PhD in instructional technology from KU Leuven, Belgium. Much of her work has focused on collaborative practices in technology-rich higher education (HE) contexts, with a current interest in the geographies of collaboration in the postdigital HE, exploring hybrid educational spaces and their scalability across various educational levels.
Tomi Rajala
PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Accounting, Auditing, and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway. His recent publications address performance measurement and accounting practices in hybrid governance. Previously, he has worked in municipalities and Statistics Finland with government productivity statistics.
Íris Santos
is an Academy Research Fellow at the Faculty of Education and culture at Tampere University and a visiting assistant professor at UIDEF, Institute of Education, Lisbon University (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04107/2020). She investigates power struggles and influences within education policymaking, international organisations and global governance of education.
Taru Siekkinen
is a university lecturer and project leader at Tampere University, Faculty of Management and Business. Her main research interests are currently related to paradoxes in academic work and careers, hybrid universities, doctoral education, academic profession and diversity in academia. She is a chair of Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Finland (CHERIF).
Cathrine Edelhard Tømte
is a Professor at the University of Agder, Deputy Director of CeDIT, and Visiting Professor at SLATE, University of Bergen. Her research focuses on technology and education, with numerous publications in this field.
Jarmo Vakkuri
is a Professor of Local Public Economics, the director of the research group on Public Financial Management at Tampere University and visiting Professor at Norwegian School of Economics. His research concentrates on hybrid governance, performance management and urban policy-making.
Minni Virtanen
is a university instructor at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests include multilevel governance, internationalisation, and public administration.
Caroline Waks
is an associate professor at the Department of Business studies, Uppsala University. Her research interest has primarily been focused on the role and work of professionals in public sector reforms and she is currently investigating professional role hybridity.