Julie Bayley

Julie Bayley is Director of Research Impact Development at the University of Lincoln, leading the development and implementation of the institution’s impact strategy. Julie is the Director of Qualifications for the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA), and a longstanding member of ARMA’s Professional Development Committee. She is also co-chair of the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Impact and Stakeholder Engagement (RISE) working group, and a member of the Research Administration As A Profession (RAAAP) task force. Her research interests include impact literacy and issues relating to professional development and healthy institutional practices.

Julie is currently working with Dr Gemma Derrick on exploring the taxonomies of societal returns from publicly funded research and exploring methods for its ex-post and ex-ante evaluation.

Kean Birch

Kean Birch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at York University in Canada. He is particularly interested in understanding technoscientific capitalism and draws on a range of perspectives from science & technology studies, economic geography, and economic sociology to study it. Currently, he is exploring how different things (e.g. knowledge, personality, loyalty, etc.) are turned into assets and how economic rents are then captured from those assets.

Kean Birch is currently working with Janja Komljenovic on the political economy of higher education and particularly on the processes of assetization and commodification in the global higher education industry.

Pete Boyd

Pete Boyd is the Director of the Learning, Education and Development (LED) Research Centre at University of Cumbria & Conference chair for the Assessment in Higher Education network.

Area of work: Close to practice research with educators; Assessment and feedback in Higher Education.

Pete is currently co-supervising some LU Research Students with Malcolm Tight.

Mark Carrigan

Mark Carrigan is a sociologist in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. His research explores how the proliferation of digital platforms is reshaping education systems, with a particular focus on knowledge production within universities. He is internationally recognised as a leading expert on the role of social media within higher education, giving over 100 invited talks internationally and consulting for universities, research centres and publishers.

Mark Carrigan is currently working with Janja Komljenovic on the ‘platform university’ and the transformation of higher education in the digital economy.

Adam Jaegar

Adam Jaegar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Wichita State Unviersity, USA.

Area of work: Statistics, specifially likelihood theory, computional methods, climate, data analystics.

Adam is currently working with Gemma Derrick on aspects of gendered scientific excellence. Currently modeling the academic productivity cost of parenting responsiblities using a global database of active researchers.

Matt Kedzierski

Matt Kedzierski is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol. Matt's research interests lie in the analysis of the dynamic spatial, temporal and social interrelations between educational processes and societies – in particular, he is interested in the relationship between language education, including language-in-education policy, and large-scale social, economic and political transformations in Late Modernity. Alongside colleagues in the Research Network Globalisation, Education and Social Futures, Matt has been working on advancing a Cultural Political Economy of Education, with a specific focus on the commodification of foreign language provision and the role of English in the internationalisation of higher education.

Matt Kedzierski is currently working with Janja Komljenovic on education policy and commodification in and of higher education.

Anna Kosmutzky

Anna Kosmützky is Professor for Methodology of Higher Education and Science Research at the Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany. Her research includes higher education research, science research, and organisational studies and focusses on the methodology of comparative research, in particular, international comparative research (including international collaborative research). Furthermore, she studies internationalisation, globalisation, and transnationalisation processes in higher education (and beyond) as well as the institutional and organisational change of higher education and research organisations.

Anna Kosmützky is currently working with Janja Komljenovic on digitalisation and marketisation of higher education.

Reetta Muhonen

Reetta Muhonen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Center for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI), University of Tampere, Finland.

Area of work: Higher Education studies, science studies, sociology of education.

Reetta Muhonen is a sociologist interested in higher education and science studies. She has published widely on science policy related topics like research performance, scientific publishing, internationalisation of science and science-society interface. She has currently funding from the Academy of Finland for a Postdoctoral Research post at the University of Tampere, Finland, for 2018–2021. The main aim of her postdoc research is to study how SSH researchers make sense and justify the value of social sciences and humanities in society.

Her collaboration with the Centre for Higher Education Research & Evaluation, Lancaster University deals with EU COST Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ENRESSH) supported research project on Early Career Researchers’ perceptions on identities, audit cultures and societal impact. The data comprises of ca. 60 interviews of ECRs from 17 European countries.

Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon is a Professor in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.

Cameron, along with Gemma Derrick, is investigating the changing nature, and cultural history, of research excellence.

Mimi Urbanc

Mimi Urbanc is a Senior Research Fellow and deputy director at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).

Area of work: Human geography, science policy

Mimi holds a PhD in human geography. Her research activities have been focused on cultural landscapes, namely on landscape perception, perception of landscape changes, identity, attachment to and alienation from the landscape, and landscape representations in literature and photography. She has (co)authored several publications including books. She is the chief editor of the book series "Thought, society, culture: Exploring Cultural Spaces of Europe" published by Peter Lang Verlag and board member of ISCAR (International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps).

Within the ENRESSH project she has been involved into Early Career Investigator (ECI) workgroup, namely in the research focusing on identity, audit cultures & societal impact which is currently lead by Dr. Gemma Derrick from the Dept.

Ben Williamson

Ben Williamson is Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His current research focuses on two key themes. One is the expansion of educational data infrastructures to enable information to be collected from schools and universities, then analysed and circulated to various audiences. The second is the emergence of ‘intimate data’ relating to students’ psychological states, neural activity, and genetic profiles, and the implications for increasingly scientific ways of approaching educational policy and practice.

Ben Williamson is currently working with Janja Komljenovic on digitalisation and marketisation of higher education.

Pavel Zgaga

Pavel Zgaga is a Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana; he is a co-founder and the Head of the Centre for Educational Policy Studies (2001).

His primary interest is in higher education studies, especially in understanding the conceptual frameworks and reforms of higher education. Currently, he is exploring the history of policy ideas related to the creation of the European Higher Education Area.

Pavel, along with Janja Komljenovic, is investigating higher education policies, higher education governance, and the changing nature of the university.