Jürgen Enders - Biography#
Jürgen Enders is Professor of Higher Education Management at the School of Management, University of Bath. His academic interest is focused on the study of institutional change in the field of universities, and their role in society and economy. Major areas of research address (1) the regulation, funding and organisation of higher education and research; (2) management/leadership and organisational change in universities; (3) the student experience, employability and graduate careers; (4) the socio-economic impact of universities; and (5) academic work and career. Jürgen also addresses processes of internationalisation and globalisation in higher education and undertakes cross-national comparative research.
Jürgen has been conducting funded research in the field of higher education since the mid 1990s. He has previously worked as the Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) in the Netherlands and before that as Assistant Professor at the Center for Research on Higher Education and Work in Germany.
He has spent periods as a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Germany; at the Special Research Group ‘Transformation of The Nation-State’ of the German Research Foundation, University of Bremen, Germany; at the Foundation Nationale de Science Politique, Paris, France; at the University of Beijing; China, and at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
He is member of the editorial board of the book series ‘Higher Education Dynamics’ and the journal ‘Higher Education’. He has written and (co)edited 14 books, and published more than 100 articles in books and journals such as Organization Studies, Public Management, Public Management Review, Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education and Scientometrics. Recently funded projects include investigations supported by the Dutch Research Council, the European Science Foundation, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and the Ford Foundation.
Jürgen is elected member of the Academia Europaea and of the German Academe of Science and Engineering, and Honorary Fellow of the Society for Research in Higher Education. He is member of the Advisory Committee for Research and Knowledge Exchange of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, of the German Advisory Council for Education, and of the R&D committee of the European Federation for Management Development. He also served as an advisor to the Dutch Association of Universities, the Swiss Science and Technology Council, and as a reviewer to the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation.
Major research grants (selected)
The Transformation of European Universities,
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Evaluation of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program, IFP: Tracer studies and impact evaluation Re-structuring Higher Education and Scientific Innovation: The Consequences of Changing Authority Relations for the Direction and Organisation of Research,
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
The Role of Leadership and Management for Teaching and Learning,
German Ministry of Education and Research
Progress in Higher Education Reform across Europe – Governance Reform,
European Commission
Progress in Higher Education Reform across Europe – Funding Reform,
European Commission
Higher Education and Social Change, Research Program of the European Science Foundation
Management and Self-Governance in Universities: A Comparison of Decision-Making Processes and Their Consequences for Research,
German Research Foundation (DFG)
The Production of Knowledge Revisited – Academic Spin-Offs and Public Research Performance,
European Union: Framework Program
Steering Universities’ Research by and in Networks, Institute of Governance Studies/Network of Excellence ‘PRIME’
Honors
- Since 2011 Member of the Academia Europaea
- Since 2011 Honorary Fellow of the Society for Research in Higher Education
- Since 2010 Member of the German Academe of Science and Engineering
Major recent external functions
- Since 2013 Member of the Advisory Committee for Research and Knowledge Exchange,
Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) - Since 2011 Member of the Advisory Council for Education of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs
- Since 2011 Member of the R&D Committee of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD)
- 2008-2012 Member of the Scientific Committee of the research program
‘Higher Education and Social Change’, European Science Foundation - 2007 - 2009 Member of the Advisory Board of the Swiss Science and Technology Council
Recent editorial boards and reviewing activities
- 2015 Reviewer research programme “Long-Term Provision of Knowledge:
Swedish Research and Higher Education in an International Context”, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, Swedish Research Council Formas, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Swedish Research Council - Since 2013 Reviewer for the Economic and Social Science Research Council, UK
- 2006/2007 Member of the review committee ‘German Excellence Initiative:
Institutional Strategies, German Research Foundation/German Science Council - Since 2006 Reviewer for the Dutch Research Council
- Since 2004 Reviewer for the German Research Foundation
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