Reforms and changing ideas about what higher education institutions are and should be
have put pressure on academic identity. The present paper explores the way academics in …

Nations the world over are increasingly turning to quantitative performance-based metrics to
evaluate the quality of research outputs, as these metrics are abundant and provide an easy …

Quality in higher education (HE) can be considered a floating signifier that lacks a stable
meaning due to the many possible interpretations different actors may ascribe to it in …

The idea of the research university as a key institution for social and economic development
in knowledge-intensive societies has been adopted by the Ukrainian government after the …

The Danish national government (2018) prioritises a proactive digitalisation of the public
sector, including higher education institutions (HEIs). HEIs are facing major changes and …

Responsible conduct of research and research integrity has become a key concern in both
research policy and public media resulting in a number of soft law documents, such as …

This dissertation is about the cumulative disadvantages slowing down women academics'
advancement and keeping them from gaining the same organizational status as their male …

This dissertation has illuminated how Danish universities have developed as organizations
over decades. The days when largely self-reliant professors dominated the universities …

The main thesis of the articles making up this dissertation is that policies drawn on global
models may fail to achieve the intended outcomes in a new context not only because of …

This qualitative study was aimed at exploring the way private universities in Uganda make
sense of the national quality assurance framework with regard to quality teaching. This …