PhD Fellow in Educational Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Lærke holds a M.Sc in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, and a M.Sc. in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has previously worked as an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Anthropology. Lærke is is currently a visiting scholar at the Center of Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at UC Berkeley.
Lærke is interested in the new social-justice oriented activism that is currently happening on campuses worldwide, such as student activists calling for so-called “de-naming” of campus buildings to avoid racist...
Marco Bitschnau is a Ph.D. candidate at the Université de Neuchâtel and research fellow at the NCCR – on the move. He previously studied Sociology, Politics and Economics at Zeppelin Universität (B.A., 2017) and Political Sociology at the University of Cambridge (MPhil, 2018).
Additional stays include a semester at Sciences Po Paris (Certificate in International Strategy summa cum laude, 2016) as well as internships in Berlin, St. Petersburg, and New York. He has been a lecturer at the...
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), and affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences
Nelson Casimiro Zavale is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), in Maputo, Mozambique and an affiliate of the African Academy of Sciences. He holds PhD Degree (2012) in Educational Sciences (Sociology of Education) from Aix-Marseille University (France) and a Master Degree (2008) in Social Sciences, specialization in Education) from the same university. Before being Fulbright visiting scholar (2021-2022) at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), University of California, Berkeley (2021-...
Lin Cong is a Ph.D. student in school of education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She holds a Master’s degree in pedagogy from Sichuan University (2016). Her research interests focus on the coordinate development between University discipline ecology and regional industry, as well as internal discipline ecology management in universities, etc.
She has participated in the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Research on the Formation Mechanism and Promotion Strategies of Research Universities' Social Reputation" project. She has...
David Earwicker is Principal and Founder of Aspen Insight Consulting, a higher education research development firm. He holds a PhD in Education Policy from the University of California, Davis, an M.A. in Middle East Affairs/Islamic Culture Studies from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from UC Davis.
During 2022-23 he is a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. At CSHE, under the sponsorship of John Aubrey Douglass, his research work is...
Assistant Researcher, the Institute of Higher Education at Yunnan University in China (YNU), and the Deputy Director of Comparative International Education Center at Yunnan University
Hua Fan now is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Higher Education at Yunnan University in China (YNU), and the deputy director of Institute of Comparative and International Education Research(ICIER) at Yunnan university. He received his PhD in Education from Xiamen university in China in 2014. He has recently focused mainly on using the research tools of social science to reveal the inter-related causes of education quality and academic experience of students learning and research in interdisciplinary centers/ departments/programs in World-top universities,...
Xiaojie Fan is a 4th year Ph.D. student at Fudan University Institute for Higher Education. Before studying at Fudan, she worked at the Development Planning Office of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) which is one of the “double-world-first class” universities in Shanghai. The work at ECUST helped her understand the Chinese “double-world-first class” project policy deeply and the impact of governmental policy on the development of the higher education system in China. Her research interests at Fudan focus on the quality of graduate education and the political economy...
Gökçe Garip is a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Education, Gazi University, Türkiye. She holds a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Kocaeli University and a bachelor’s degree in American Culture and Literature from Hacettepe University. She is also a navy officer (lieutenant) in the Turkish Navy and serves as a military faculty at the National Defense University, Turkish Naval Academy. Her areas of research interests include higher education, research universities, undergraduate research, and curriculum development and evaluation. Gökçe’s doctoral dissertation...
Takuya KIMURA is a Japanese Sociologist of Education. He hold Ph.D in Educational Planning from Tohoku University . He is a professor at Kyushu University and the National Center for University Entrance Examinations. He is also the founder and president of Japan Association of College and University Admissions Profession (JACUAP). He holds M.A. in Educational Philosophy from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Tokyo. He has served as Assistant Professor at Kyoto University, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Nagasaki University, Associate Professor...
Research Scientist in Finance & Technology and Study Director
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance University Luxembourg
Zsófia Kräussl is holding and maintaining a diverse, interdisciplinary academic profile. She obtained her PhD in information systems management and requirements engineering in 2011, and has been specializing her research interest in digital innovation across different domains ever since. Her main research activities relate to Digital Finance. Her main focus is on investigating valuation fundamentals, as well as the socio-economic and performance effects of data as an emerging asset class. Her empirical cases relate to credit risk assessment of households, to the enhancing effect...