Offentlige retningslinjer, styring og ledelse/administrasjon, med fokus på høyere utdanning og offentlig vitenskap, og ved å ta i bruk "multilevel"-, komparative, kvantitative og blandede metoder forskningsdesign. Sentrale temaer: implementering og virkning av retningslinjer og politiske instrumenter (f.eks. NPM, forskningsberegninger), vitenskapsinstitusjoner (peer review), åpenhet for høyere utdanning og vitenskapelige system (internasjonalisering, interdisciplinarity, akademiske karrierer).
Publikasjonssteder - blant annet: Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, Public Management Review, Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Scientometrics, Research Evaluation, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Artikkelen om "self-citations" har blitt omtalt i Nature Index, London School of Economics impact blog a b, blitt intervjuet for Nature , Science og Physics Today . Hans medforfatteroppgave om konkurransen om å tiltrekke seg talent vant den Swiss Prize for Research in Education 2019. Han er blant arrangørene og forfatterne av oppfordringen om å dele data om fagfellevurderinger omtalt i Nature. Han har samarbeidet med forskningsfinansieringsbyrået COST siden 2017.Han blir regelmessig invitert som foredragsholder om akademisk publiseringsvirksomhet, fagfellevurdering og forskningsetikk (f.eks. ved Mahindra Center, Harvard University).
Han er Co-redaktør for European Journal of Higher Education med Manja Klemencic, medgründer og medlem av SQUARES - Støtte i kvantitativ forskning og statistikk- ved Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap.
current
ORG 411 - Organizational Change and Change Management (MA)
IS 110 - Organizational Theory (BA)
ME 400 - Research Methodology and Statistics (MA)
ME 631 - Researching Social Sciences: Philosophical and Methodological Foundations - coordination and Quantitative research (PHD)
ME-413 - Research Methods in Development and Planning Studies (Quantitative) (MA)
ORG 447 - Governance and Networks in the Public Sector (Boundary spanners I, II, Public-private partnerships) (MA)
ST 423 - Research Design and Advanced Methods for the Social Sciences (How to write a Master Thesis, Quantitative Research) (MA)
past courses
ST 400 - Political Systems and Governance (Governance of public higher education and Science) (MA)
ORG 445-1 - Leadership in the Public Sector - (Leadership in Higher Education and Science; Strategic Leadership) (MA)
Tidligere arbeidsgivere: University of Lugano (Sveits) og Ghent University (Belgia)
PhD og forskningsassistent (2006–2010): University of Chieti Pescara (Italia) og CNR-Roma (Italia)
Selected projects
TEFCE (2018– 2019) – Multinational comparative project for the European Commission aimed to understand how to improve the community engagement of universities.
Survey on International students - City of Ghent and Higher Education Institutions in Ghent (2018-2019) – Role: expert
European University Association (2017- 2018) – Survey on Doctoral Education among EUA members – Role: expert
MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS (2016 -2017) – FP7 ex post and H2020 interim evaluation – Role: external expert counselling for data analysis
HEREL (2016 – 2017) – Project for the European Commission. Comparative study of eight countries exploring policies promoting the relevance of Higher Education
SHERDE (2015-2016) - Project for the European Commission. Comparative study of eight countries aimed to study Structural Higher Education Reforms
EUNIVATION (2015-2016) Project for the European Commission, aimed to study universities’ contributions to innovation capacity – Role: external expert, indicators design, literature review.
COST action (2014- 2018) – “Reforming Peer review” action TD 1306 – Role: Dissemination and Outreach co-ordinator, member of the workgroup on theory and concepts.
ERAWATCH (2013) – Platform on Research and Innovation policies and systems: Analytical Country report on Switzerland – Role: Expert for the European commission
ESPON-AMCER Project (2012) - Project for the European Commission. Advanced Monitoring and Coordination of EU R&D Policies at Regional Level
LOMBARDY REGION (2011)– A system of indicators for the Management of a Regional Higher Education system
TRUE (2010) – Comparative multinational project studying the changes in the governance of European universities - Role: studying the funding and evaluation systems of the eight European countries, Guidelines for analysing survey data.
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