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Rox Chiappa

Roxana Chiappa, also called Rox, is a lecturer in the Center for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL),  at Rhodes University in South Africa.  She obtained her doctorate degree at the University of Washington- Seattle, with a mixed-method study that looked at the effects of social class of origin on the  academics in Chile (see here publications).

Roxana’s research agenda is centered around the question how and to what extent social and economic inequalities, manifested among social groups, institutions and countries, get (re) produced  in the scientific and higher education systems.

AT CIRGE, she is the person in charge of coordinating the  series of webinars about social justice and doctoral education.

Chaya Herman

Prof Chaya Herman is associate professor in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria. Her main areas of research are doctoral education in South Africa, higher education policy and qualitative research methodology.

In 2009, Chaya was commissioned by the Academy of Science for South Africa (ASSAf) to conduct a number of studies related to a Consensus Study on the topic: The status and place of the South African Doctorate in the global knowledge economy.

 Recent publications:

Herman, C. (Forthcoming). Industry perceptions of Industry-University partnerships related to doctoral education in South Africa. Industry and Higher Education.
Herman, C. 2012. The purpose of the PhD – A South African perspective. Higher Education Policy, 25: 1-18.
Herman, C. 2011. Doctoral education in South Africa – research and policy: editorial introduction. Perspectives in Education, The changing face of doctoral education in South Africa, Special issue 3, 29: i-v.
Herman, C. 2011. Obstacles to success: Doctoral students’ attrition in South Africa. Perspectives in Education, The changing face of doctoral education in South Africa, Special issue 3, 29: 40-52.
Herman, C. 2011. Expanding doctoral education in South Africa: Pipeline or pipe dream? Higher Education Research & Development, 30(4): 1-13.
Herman, C. 2011. Elusive equity in doctoral education in South Africa. Journal of Education and Work. 24 (1-2): 163-184.

Ulrike Kohl

Ulrike Kohl is currently Head of Unit at the National Research Fund, Luxembourg and has set-up the national PhD and Postdoc grant scheme AFR in Luxembourg in 2008. 
She has 20 years of professional experience in public research management in Luxembourg.
Her expertise comprises management of research programmes and research career development.
She is a national expert for Luxembourg in the FP7 PEOPLE Committee and a member of the steering committee of the ESF Member Organisation Forum ‘European Alliance for Research Career Development’.
In February 2012, she hosted and organised, together with the ESF, an international workshop on tracking researchers’ careers in Luxembourg where Prof. Maresi Nerad collaborated as an expert in the organising committee and as a keynote speaker (www.researcherscareers.eu).
Contact: Ulrike Kohl, Head of Unit, Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg. Email: ulrike.kohl@fnr.lu

Thoko Mayekiso

Professor Thoko Mayekiso  is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor:  Research and Engagement at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) with effect from 1 May 2009.   She obtained her BA, BA Honours and MA in Psychology from the University of Fort Hare. She then obtained a D Phil (Cum laude) from the Free University of Berlin, Germany. She is registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA).  

Professor Mayekiso has served in the following capacities at the then University of Transkei (now Walter Sisulu University): Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, and thereafter as Vice Dean of Arts.  In 2001 she joined the University of the Witwatersrand in the capacity of Head of School of Human & Community Development, and subsequently became Deputy Dean and Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in 2006. She proceeded to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) where she was appointed as Executive Dean: Faculty of Arts in 2007.

Her academic Scholarships include a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Scholarship), a Commonwealth Scholarship tenable at Leicester General Hospital and Greenwood Institute of Child Health in the United Kingdom and the South African Universities’ Vice Chancellors Association/American Council of Education fellowship tenable at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.  She serves as the Board Member of the Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town, Emthonjeni Centre at the University of Witwatersran,  the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and  the Institute for Co-operatives Development.  She has a track record both as a researcher and a mentor especially in the areas of HIV/AIDS, poverty, adolescent adjustment problems and child abuse and neglect. She has supervised many postgraduate students especially at Masters and Doctoral levels.

She has served on review panels of research entities and programmes at a number of universities and science councils.  She also serves as external examiner for several universities, examining Masters dissertations and Doctoral theses. Furthermore, she has written a number of articles in accredited journals nationally and internationally, presented papers at national and international conferences, and contributed to the writing of book chapters.

Armando Alcantara

Dr.  Armando Alcantara is Professor of Higher Education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in the Institute for University and Education Studies, and Research Fellow at Mexico’s National System of Researchers (level I). He is a regular member of the Mexican Academy of Science.

He earned a B. A. in Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1985); a M. A. in education (International Development Education) at Stanford University (1992), and a Ph. D. (Social Sciences and Comparative Education) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1999). He was also Visiting Scholar Boston College (2000-2001), and Visiting Professor at Brazil’s Federal University of Goiás (2006). His main areas of inquiry include politics and policies of higher education, values in education, and comparative education.

Dr. Alcantara has been awarded several scholarships from the Fulbright Program (for the M. A. Program at Stanford University), UNAM (for the M. A. Program at Stanford University and the doctoral program at UCLA). He was also recipient of a scholarship from the Argentinean government to conduct doctoral field work in 1996.

He has delivered papers in conferences of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and the Mexican Council for Educational Research (COMIE), among many others in Mexico, Latin America and the United States. He has served as Secretary General of the Mexican Council of Educational Research (2001-2003), vice president and founding member of the Mexican Society of Comparative Education, and is currently a member of UNAM´s Higher Education Seminar. Dr. Alcantara is also columnist of Campus Milenio, a weekly supplement of Milenio, a Mexican newspaper. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Revista de la Educación Superior (Mexican Journal of Higher Education), and Reseñas Educativas/Education Review.

Dr. Alcantara most recent publications include the following:

  •  Alcántara, Armando. (2011). “Three Decades of Educational Policies in Mexico”, in Carlos Alberto Torres, Liliana Olmos and Richard Van Heertum (eds.)
  • Educating the Global Citizen: In the Shadows of Neoliberalism. Twenty-Five Years of Educational Reform in North America. Bentham Science [ISBN 978-1-60805-268-4] [www.benthem.org/ebooks/htm] [Chapter in electronic book]].
  • Alcantara, Armando and Margaret M. Clements. (2009). “Globalisation, Intellectual Property and the Cultural Aspects of Collaboration: Comparisons between Mexico and the United States”, in Zajda, Joseph y Val Rust (editors). Globalisation, Policy and Comparative Research: Discourses of Globalisation. Series: Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research. Vol. 5, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands; pp. 125-138. (ISBN: 978-1-4020-9546-7).
  • (2003) Rodríguez Gómez, Roberto and Armando Alcántara. “Towards a Unified Agenda for Change in Latin American Higher Education”, en Ball, Stephen, Gustavo E. Fischman and Silvina Gvirtz (editors). Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America. New York and London. Routledge-Falmer Press; pp. 19-43.
  • Entre Prometeo y Sísifo: Ciencia, Tecnología y Universidad en México y Argentina. (2005). Barcelona: Ediciones Pomares. (ISBN 84-87682-56-1). Reviewed by Pilar Mendoza in Reseñas Educativas/Education Review, 08/30/ 2006 URL: http://www.edrev.info/reviews/revs125index.html

Sandra Elman

Sandra Elman is the President of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) in Redmond, Washington. From 2003-2006, Dr. Elman served as Chair of the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions (CRAC) that is comprised of the directors and chairs of the seven regional accrediting commissions. Prior to assuming the position of the President of NWCCU in 1996, Dr. Elman was the Associate Director of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Before joining regional accreditation, Dr. Elman held a variety of administrative and faculty positions at the John McCormack Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Massachusetts; the University of Maryland and the University of California, Berkeley. She has published extensively in the fields of public policy and higher education and is coauthor of New Priorities for the University: Educating Competent Individuals for Applied Knowledge and Societal Needs.

She has lectured nationally and internationally on issues related to quality assurance; institutional finance and governance; and the roles of government and business/industry. She is an adjunct faculty member at Oregon State University. Dr. Elman serves as an evaluator for international quality assurance agencies including for the Center for Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Swiss Universities. She is a past Chair of the Board of Trustees of Unity College in Unity, Maine, which is an environmentally focused liberal arts institution. Her academic areas of interest include: accreditation/federal/institutional relations; quality assurance in the U.S. and Europe; governance of public and private higher education institutions; and conflict resolution and international peace. Sandra Elman received her B.A. degree in history and political science from Hunter College in New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in policy, planning and administration from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a 2005 graduate of the Department of Defense National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College.

Ingrid DuMosch DeHaan

Ingrid DuMosch DeHaan has been working with the CIRGE team as an administrator since 2006.  She also occasionally works as a program assistant at the University of Washington’s Medical Center.  She has had the privilege of living and working overseas, particularly in the U.K., and has traveled extensively in much of Europe as her parents originate from Austria and the Netherlands, respectively.

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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