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October 9, 2012

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…

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…

Louis Maheu

Louis Maheu is the former Dean and Vice-principal for Graduate Studies of the University of Montreal. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University Paris-Sorbonne. He published extensively, more than 100 books and articles, on social movements, social classes, scientific organizations and communities, graduate studies and universities. Dr. Maheu served on and chaired many committees…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Catherine Manathunga

Catherine Manathunga is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Victoria University Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand and is an historian, who draws together expertise in historical, sociological and cultural studies research to bring an innovative, interdisciplinary perspective to educational research, particularly focusing on the tertiary sector. She has current research projects on doctoral…

Margaret Kiley

Dr. Margaret Kiley works in the Center for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching at the Australian National University (ANU). Her research expertise for over fifteen years has been in research education including: the examination of theses; experiences of international students undertaking research degrees; candidates and supervisors’ conceptions of research; and candidates and supervisors’ expectations of…

Jeanette Fyffe

Dr. Jeannete Fyffe works in the Curriculum Teaching and Learning Centre (CTLC) at La Trobe Universityin Bundoora, Victoria, Australia as a Curriculum and Academic Developer, responsible for programs for tutors and new academic staff. Professor Fyffe was awarded her PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Melbourne in 2003 and was previously the Academic Programs and…

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