Min, LI

Min, LI is a Researcher Fellow in the Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE) at the Hiroshima University, Japan. From 1999 to 2002, she served as a lecturer at the Department of Japanese, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. She earned her BA at Beijing Foreign Studies University, China and her PhD at Ochanomizu University, Japan. Her doctorate research is about job-seeking by university graduates in China. The Expansion of Higher Education and Job scarcity of University Graduates in China was published by the Hiroshima University Press in March 2011. Her current research topic is the reform of graduate schools in Japan and the education of international students. She is also conducting a comparative study on higher education systems, mainly between China and Japan, as well as working on the issue of employment of university graduate and disparities in educational opportunities . Gender differences is another issue of her interest.

Min, LI is a member of the Japan Society of Educational Sociology, Japanese Association of Higher Education Research, Japan China Sociological Society.

Christian Schneijderberg

Christian Schneijderberg is researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) at the University of Kassel in Germany. He directs the research unit “Innovation and Transfer” at INCHER-Kassel. His areas of specialisation include higher education research, transfer and innovation studies, transfer of knowledge and technology, higher education professionals, university as organisation, doctoral education and training, academic careers and academic disciplines, especially social sciences and humanities. He obtained his Magister Artium (German pre-Bologna equivalent to master’s degree) in sociology and political sciences at Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg in Germany. For his PhD he does research on the decomposition of doctoral education and training comparing sociology, political sciences and economics in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He is serving in the Executive Committee of the German Association for Higher Education Researchers. Recent publications (in German only) are on disciplinary approaches to the field of higher education research, higher education professionals, differentiation of the academic profession, and transfer of knowledge and technology.

Barbara Kehm

Dr. Barbara M. Kehm studied German Literature, History and Philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) where she was also awarded her doctoral degree in German Literature in 1989. From 1986 to 1989 she worked as a lecturer at the School of European Studies of the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K.

In 1990 she started work as a postdoc researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at Kassel University (Germany). From 1996 until 2003 she was senior researcher at the newly established Institute for Higher Education research in Wittenberg (East Germany) until she was appointed as a professor at INCHER in October 2003. Between April 2004 and September 2011 she also acted as the Director of INCHER. Currently she is mainly working as a freelance consultant and international expert adviser in a variety of countries (including Germany) and she is still affiliated to INCHER.

Kehm’s fields of expertise are mainly focused on internationalisation in higher education, changes in doctoral education, new forms of governance in higher education and new higher education professionals. She frequently is a member of international research project consortia and works comparatively, mainly with regard to European developments.

Barbara M. Kehm is currently the Secretary of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), a European based but global association in the field of higher education research. In addition she is a member of the editorial board of four international, peer reviewed higher education journals. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Siegen (Germany) and a member of the International Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki (Finland). Her publications include more than 25 monographs, more than 200 journal articles or book chapters. In addition she has given more than 250 keynote speeches and invited presentations in about 45 countries around the world.

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Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson

Dr. Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson, is since 2008 Dean of the School of Business and Science at the University of Akureyri. He is a physicist with a doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (TechnD) from KTH, Stockholm, 1982. After research, teaching and administrative careers at KTH, the University of Iceland and the Iceland Technology Institute, IceTec, Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson served as scientific counselor with the European Free Trade Association, EFTA, from 1992 to 1994 and at the Icelandic Mission to the European Union in Brussels from 1995 to 1999.

He was member of the Nordic Science Policy Council 1996 to 1999, as chairman 1998-1999. Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson served from 1999 to 2003 as Rector of NorFA, the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study, an institution under the Nordic Council of Ministers promoting doctoral education. In 2004 he was chairman of the NorFA Governing Board. In the years 2004 to 2006 he served as vice chairman of IGFA, the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research.

From 2003 to 2008 he was the general director of RANNIS, the Icelandic Centre for Research, a governmental institution supporting research, technological development and innovation, providing professional assistance to the preparation and implementation of science and technology policy in Iceland.

Helena Sebkova

Dr. Helena Sebkova is the director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies (public research institution dealing primarily with applied research in higher/tertiary education) in Prague from 1991. The main areas of her interest and research work focus on quality assurance and quality culture, internationalization with respect to the Bologna process and its priorities, higher education management and governance, respectively, collaboration of higher education institutions with external stakeholders in general and employers in particular. In 2004-2008, she was the national coordinator of the multinational OECD project “Thematic Review of Tertiary Education”, and edited the publication “Country Background Report” elaborated for the project purposes. This major publication on Czech tertiary education also dealt with the doctoral studies, research and development of academic staff and academic profession.

Fred L. Hall

Fred L. Hall served as the Vice-Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada from August 2007 through July 2011. During that time he was also appointed as a tenured Professor in the Civil Engineering Department. Prior to 2007, he had been the Dean of Graduate Studies at McMaster University in Ontario for eight years, and had earlier served six years as an Associate Dean of Graduate Studies there. For the whole of his 35 year career at McMaster he was appointed jointly between Geography and Civil Engineering, with a focus on urban transportation. From 1997 until his appointment as Dean in 1999, he was Director [head] of the School of Geography and Geology. He is author or co-author of roughly 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as numerous conference papers and several book chapters, primarily in the areas of freeway traffic flow theory, freeway operations and quality of service, and earlier on the impacts of transportation noise on residential communities. From 2005 on, he also conducted research on cross-national comparisons of aspects of doctoral education.

He served as President of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (2007), as well as two additional years on the CAGS Board as Vice-President and Past President. He has given presentations at several CAGS annual meetings, and has also presented several times at meetings of the US Council of Graduate Schools as well as at the Australian conference on Quality in Postgraduate Research.

Barbara Evans

Professor Barbara Evans is the Former Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia. Recognized for her international leadership in graduate education, Barbara has been a keynote speaker at many conferences focused on graduate education in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Dean Evans was recently named as one of the top 50 current and emerging leaders in Australia by Advance, the leading global network of Australians and alumni abroad. She was honored at the Advance Women’s Leadership Summit in Sydney. She is also an Olympian, representing Australia in Gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympic Games 1964 and the World Gymnastics Championships in Germany 1966.

Originally a comparative physiologist and zoologist, Barbara’s research resulted in over 100 publications and she is author and editor of three award-winning Biology textbooks for tertiary and senior secondary students, each now in their fourth edition.

Renato Janine Ribeiro

Renato Janine Ribeiro, Ph. D. in Philosophy (1984), has been a Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of São Paulo since 1993. He wrote several books in political philosophy. From 1973 to 1984 most of his work was concentrated on the English thinker Thomas Hobbes. Later he kept his interest in political philosophy but had a growing concern for the problems that arise when one tries to build a democracy in a dissident Western society, as he characterizes Brazil and some other countries in Latin America and elsewhere. He won the Jabuti award of the best essay published in Brazil in 2000 with A sociedade contra o social – o alto custo da vida pública no Brasil, his first essay to deal with that subject.

He has been a Tinker Professor at the University of Columbia at New York during 2003-4. From April 2004 to October 2008 he has been Evaluation Director at Capes, Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education. As Evaluation Director he was directly responsible for the permanent evaluation of ca. 1,300 Ph.D. programs and 2,500 Master degrees programs in Brazil and helped to create many of them. He has been decorated by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso with the National Order of Scientific Merit, in 1997, and by President Lula da Silva with the Rio Branco Order in 2009. He writes an op-ed column at “Valor economico” (www.valoronline.com.br) on Brazilian and international politics every Monday.

Helene Marsh

Helene Marsh is Dean of Graduate Research Studies and Professor of Environmental Science at James Cook University (JCU).

Helene has been Convenor of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies for two terms 2002-3 and 2009-10 and has contributed to the literature on doctoral pedagogy and policy.

The focus of her research in Environmental Science has been marine mammal conservation biology. She is currently President of the Society of Marine Mammalogy.

Helene is committed to informing interdisciplinary solutions to conservation problems and has collaborated widely with colleagues in other disciplines. The policy outcomes of her research include significant contributions to the science base for the management of dugongs (sea cows) in northern Australia and several other dugong range states. Her research has also provided the conceptual basis for the ‘Back on Track’ Program conducted by the Queensland environment department. Helene chairs the Threatened Species Scientific Committee that reports to the Australian Minister of Environment.

Helene has received several international awards for her contributions to dugong research and conservation. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

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