Notes on Contributors
Editors
Elizabeth Balbachevsky
is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, Director of USP’s Center for Public Policy Research (NUPPs/USP), and Fellow at the Laboratory of Studies in Higher Education, State University of Campinas. From 2016 up to 2017 she was Head of the International Affairs Office at the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Brazil. She is the Regional Editor for Latin America for the Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions (Springer, 2020).
Yuzhuo Cai
is a Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at the Higher Education Group (HEG), Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. He has been with the HEG for 18 years and was the Acting Professor there from August 2013 to July 2014. He is the Director of Sino-Finnish Education Research Centre, a board member of the Triple Helix Association and the Associate Editor of the Triple Helix Journal. His main teaching and research areas are higher education policy and management, organisation theory, internationalisation of higher education, innovation studies and comparative education, with over 100 scholarly publications in these fields.
Heather Eggins
is Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Staffordshire University, UK, and Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Her areas of higher education research include policy and strategy, access and equity, quality assurance and enhancement, and globalisation. She was a Fulbright New Century Scholar, Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and a consultant to UNESCO. Recent publications include the edited book The Changing Roles of Women in Higher Education (Springer, 2017) and a chapter on the challenges of Brexit for UK higher education, in Universities as Political Institutions (L. Weimer and T. Nokkala, eds., Brill | Sense, 2020).
Svetlana Shenderova
is a Researcher of EDUneighbours study of Finnish-Russian double degree implementation, hosted by Tampere University, Finland. She has worked for more than 30 years in research, administration, consulting and expertise in the fields of higher education policies, internationalisation, university governance and degree programme management focusing on transaction costs of EU-Russia internationalisation. She has worked in academia as an associate professor being involved in teaching, research and consulting projects in nine Russian universities. Svetlana holds a D.Econ.Sc. (St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance, 2012), and PhD in Political Economy (St. Petersburg State University, 1997).
Authors
Laura Ballesteros
is a consultant specialising in research on higher education and vocational education and training. Her areas of expertise include internationalisation, quality assurance, adult education and skill development. She has more than 10 years of experience in the field having participated in projects funded by the EU, OECD, and World Bank, among others. She has a background in International Relations and earned a Master of Philosophy in Higher Education as an Erasmus Mundus scholar with an in-service training at the European Commission. She is a current member of the Board of Trustees of the Universidad del Noroccidente de Latinoamérica.
Nadine Burquel
is Director of BCS, a strategy consultancy specialising in higher education. As international expert she has some 30 years’ experience in EU higher education policies and programmes, internationalisation, governance and leadership, quality assurance, entrepreneurship and innovation. She has worked extensively in Europe, South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, and with universities in Australia, the US, Canada and Latin America. In the HUMANE network of heads of administration in universities, she is director of three highly successful leadership programmes for senior managers of professional services. Until recently she was EFMD director of business school services.
Ana Maria Carneiro
is a researcher at the Centre for Public Policy Studies (NEPP) at UNICAMP, Brazil, where she conducts studies regarding access and success in Higher Education, student engagement, undergraduate and graduate student experience, evaluation of higher education and science and technology programmes. She is the Coordinator of the Laboratory for Studies in Higher Education (LEES) and also a Collaborator Professor at the Graduate Program in Science & Technology Policy. Since 2018, she has been the advisor for Institutional Evaluation at the Office of Vice-President where she coordinates the current cycle of institutional evaluation in close collaboration with strategic planning.
Cintia Denise Granja
is a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT), in the Programme on Innovation, Economics and Governance for Development. She holds a bachelor degree in Economics and a master in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
Klasien Horstman
is Professor of Philosophy of Public Health at Maastricht University, in The Netherlands. Drawing from philosophy, sociology, and science and technology studies she studies the dynamics of science, politics and society in diverse public health practices: (mental) health promotion, health promotion at the workplace, community health, vaccination, and antimicrobial resistance prevention. As she is interested in participatory approaches to public health, she developed an urban health living lab in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Maastricht (www.universiteitmetdebuurt.nl). She was coordinator of BIHSENA and is director of the Maastricht-Tomsk Participatory Public Health Center (https://www.makinghealthpublic.org/). For more information about her work, see www.klasienhorstman.nl
Merle Jacob
is Professor of Research Policy at Lund University and UNESCO Chair in Research Management and Innovation Systems. Professor Jacob’s main research interest is in the governance of science. Her current project is focused on research funding instruments and their impact on research scholarship.
Mary-Louise Kearney
is an Honorary Research Fellow of Auckland University, New Zealand. After Director posts at UNESCO, she established Kearney Consulting collaborating with the OECD/IMHE Programme for university management and the Sida/Sweden IHERD Programme for higher education, research and innovation. Other appointments include Senior Research Fellow of Oxford University’s Education Department, a Vice-President of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and Special Issues co-editor for the SRHE Journal, Studies in Higher Education. A consulting editor for Cambridge Scholars Publishing, she has authored numerous publications on Higher Education policy and practice.
Patrício V. Langa
is an Associate Professor of Sociology & Higher Education Studies at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa and Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Mozambique. He is a visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Danube University Krems, Austria, and Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Portugal. He is also the Adviser of the UEM Rector for Strategic Planning. Professor Langa served as the National Executive Director of the HE Quality Council (CNAQ), Mozambique. He is the founding President of the Mozambican Sociological Association (AMS). His research interests and publications are in the intersection between Sociology and Comparative Higher Education, Policy and Innovation Studies.
Hanwei Li
is a research associate at Manchester China Institute, University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in education from Tampere University and a PhD in Sociology from Bielefeld University. She was a Marie Curie PhD researcher working on a European Commission funded project-Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities (TRANSMIC). Her research interests include Asia-Europe student mobility, academic integration, socio-cultural integration, internationalisation of higher education transnationalism, investment migration and citizenship.
Magdalena Martinez
is a PhD candidate, the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education, and Coordinator of the Higher Education Program at OISE.
Evgeniya Popova
is Associate Professor of Department of Political Science and research fellow at Centre for Policy Analysis and Studies of Technologies at the Tomsk State University, Russia. She completed her graduate studies at the European University at St. Petersburg and defended her dissertation in political science (Moscow, Moscow State Institute of International Relations). Based on science and technology studies and political science she studies Russian innovation policy, entrepreneurial strategies in Russian high-tech industries, and interaction of infrastructure and everyday life in Russian cities.
Creso M. Sá
is Professor of Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education, and Coordinator of the Higher Education Program at OISE.
Ulrich Teichler
is Professor Emeritus at the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER), Universität Kassel. His research interests are in Qualitative Social Research and Quantitative Social Research. Major themes of his research on higher education were higher education and the world of work, higher education systems in comparative perspective, the internationality of higher research and the academic profession. After having been active in research projects for more than 40 years, he continues to be involved in advisory activities for institutions, projects and doctoral candidates
Olga Ustyuzhantseva
is a Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis and Studies of Technologies at the Tomsk State University, Russia. In 2014, she earned her PhD in history by researching the development of science, technology, and innovation in India. For the last five years, she has studied the grassroots innovation phenomenon based on the cases of India and Russia. Her current research interests are in innovation development and innovation policy, and the changes in innovation systems due to the growth of the participative activity of society.
Charl Wolhuter
studied at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He obtained a doctorate in Comparative Education at the University of Stellenbosch. He was a junior lecturer in History of Education and Comparative Education at the University of Pretoria and a senior lecturer in History of Education and Comparative Education at the University of Zululand. Currently he is Comparative and International Education Professor at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, South Africa. He has held Visiting Professorships at i.a. Brock University, Canada; the University of Queensland, Australia, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilio, Italy, and The Education University of Hong Kong. He is the author of various books and articles on History of Education and Comparative Education.
Gaoming Zheng
holds a doctoral degree in higher education research and management from Tampere University, Finland. Her research interest of higher education, covers internationalisation, doctoral education, quality assurance, academic profession, institutional logics. Since 2015 she has been writing and presenting on issues related to international cooperation in higher education, with a focus on Europe-China collaboration. Her doctoral dissertation titled with Quality and Quality Assurance of Europe-China Joint Doctoral Education: An Institutional Logics Perspective was recently published by Tampere University Press.
Olga Zvonareva
is Assistant Professor of Health, Ethics, and Society at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, as well as an Associate Professor at the National Research Tomsk State University and the Siberian State Medical University in Russia. Situated on the intersection of science and technology studies, global health, and bioethics, her research focuses on biomedical knowledge production and public engagement in health. Olga is the coeditor (with Evgeniya Popova and Klasien Horstman) of Health, Technologies, and Politics in Post-Soviet Settings: Navigating Uncertainties, and the author of Pharmapolitics in Russia: Making Drugs and Rebuilding the Nation.