Higher Education Speaker Series

IHM Speaker Series
Cláudia S. Sarrico

20th of March 2023, 4pm CET

Cláudia S. Sarrico, policy analyst at the OECD Science, Technology, and Innovation Directorate

title: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Navigating Diverse Career Paths for Emerging Research and Innovation Talent 

An abstract and a short bio can be found here.

registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Livestream: via MS Teams

Previous lectures

Liviu Matei

November 22, 2023, 4pm CET

Prof. Dr. Liviu Matei, Professor of Higher Education and Public Policy, Head of the King's School of Education, Communication & Society (ECS)

Title: Academic freedom and institutional autonomy in Europe: diverging paths?

Abstract and a short bio can be found here.

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Livestream: via MS Teams

Piet Naudé

November 10 2022, 11am CET

Prof. Piet Naudé, Professor of Ethics and the immediate past Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School

Title: The future of management education: radical shifts, societal expectations, and the role of businesses

A short bio and more information can be found here.

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Livestream: via MS Teams

Marijk van der Wende

October 18, 2022, 4pm

Prof. Dr. Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Higher Education an der Fakultät für Law, Economics and Governance der Universität Utrecht

Title: Openness challenged university at risk? 

A short bio and more information can be found here.

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Livestream: via MS Teams

Francisco O. Ramirez

24th of June 2022

Prof. Dr. Francisco O. Ramirez, Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University

Title: Universities: From Historical Institutions to Organizational Actors?

A short bio of Prof. Ramirez can be found here.

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

B. Stensaker

3th of May 2022

Prof. Bjørn Stensaker, Vice-Rector Education, University of Oslo

Title: Strategic university alliances - potential implications for competition and cooperation in the global higher education landscape

A short bio of Prof. Stensaker can be found here.

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Tatiana Fumasoli

24th of March 2022

Prof. Dr. Tatiana Fumasoli, Director, Centre for Higher Education Studies CHES, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London (UK)

Title: The globally engaged university: organisational capacity and strategic positioning at times of Covid 19

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Uni.Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken

23rd of November 2021 - via MS Teams

Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken, ICHER-Kassel International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel

Title: Vom Wettbewerb zum multiplen Wettbewerb im Hochschulsystem

A short bio and the abstract can be found here.

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Marijk van der Wende

20th of October 2021

Prof. Dr. Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Higher Education at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance

Title: Facing global change: Eurasian relations in higher education

Registration: verena.herbsthofer@wu.ac.at

Livestream: via Youtube

Video The Cost of Global University Rankings and Envisioning an Alternative: The New Flagship University Model

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Date: 4.12.2019: Institute for Higher Education Management (D5)
Speaker: Prof. John Aubrey Douglass, Senior Research Fellow and Research Professor - Public Policy and Higher Education Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California – Berkeley, USA
Title: “The Cost of Global University Rankings and Envisioning an Alternative: The New Flagship University Model”

Video The New Silk Road: implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe

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Date: 25.11.2019, Institute for Higher Education Management (D5)
Speaker: Prof. Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Title: The New Silk Road: implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe

Video Wettbewerbe in der Wissenschaft – Exzellenzstrategie und Governance in Hochschulen

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Date: 11.11.2019, LC Clubraum
Speaker: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost, Lehrstuhl Organisation und Unternehmensführung, 2013-19 Vizepräsidentin der Universität Hamburg
Title:Wettbewerbe in der Wissenschaft – Exzellenzstrategie und Governance in Hochschulen

Video The Future of Management Education and Research in a Globalized and Digital World

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Date: 8.10.2019, LC Clubraum
Speaker: Prof. Éric Cornuel, Präsident der European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), Brussels, Belgium
Title:The future of management education and research in a globalized and digital world

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