„The Future of Higher Education and Science – A Turn of the Times? LCSS+DZHW
Aims and Topic
Due to the many current crises and their ramifications, higher education and science are facing great challenges: refugee students and scientists are arriving at universities, international mobility and cooperation in science are burdened by new uncertainties, and long-term demographic change has its implications. These concomitants of the „turn of the times“ form a context that calls for an intensification of international networking in higher education research and science studies. This is the aim of this conference jointly organised by LCSS and DZHW. Envisaged topics are for example: international perspectives on the governance of higher education and science, measuring of academic freedom, scientific careers in transition, diversity of regional research cultures in the global science system, and multiple competition in science and higher education.
Stundenplan
Thursday, 05 October 2023
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Arrival
- 13:00 - 13:30
- Welcoming address and greetings
- Prof. Dr. Volker Epping, President of Leibniz University Hanover | Dr. Jochen Zachgo, Federal Ministry of Education and Research | Prof. Dr. Joachim Schachtner, State Secretary of the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony | Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer-Gans, German Centre of Higher Education Research and Science Studies and Leibniz University Hanover
- 13:30 - 14:30
- Keynote
- Disruption in science: Trends, patterns, and correlates, Prof. Dr. Erin Leahey (University of Arizona, School of Sociology)
- 14:30 - 15:00
- Poster pitches
- 15:00 - 15:30
- Coffee break
- 15:30 - 17:00
- Parallel sessions
- Panel 1, Permeability and biographic diversity in higher education, Organised and chaired by Dr. Nicole Tieben & Prof. Dr. Christian Imdorf (both Leibniz University & LCSS) | Panel 2, Comparative insights on returns to higher education — Research potentials of the EUROGRADUATE survey, Organised and chaired by Dr. Kai Mühleck & Dr. Jessica Ordemann (both DZHW) | Panel 3, Measuring academic freedom — Perspectives and conclusions, Organised and chaired by Dr. Guido Speiser (DZHW) | Panel 4, Scientific careers in transition, Organised and chaired by Dr. Jasmin Kizilirmak (DZHW)
- 17:00 - 17:30
- Coffee break
- 17:30 - 19:00
- Festive event with Keynote
- Future challenges for academic careers in Europe, Prof. Dr. Christine Musselin (SciencePo, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations)
- 19:00 - Open
- Evening buffet
Friday, 06 October 2023
- 09:00 - 10:00
- Keynote
- Structured Big Data and the global academic profession: Implications for future higher education research, Prof. Dr. Marek Kwiek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Center for Public Policy Studies)
- 10:00 - 10:15
- Break for changing rooms
- 10:15 - 11:45
- Parallel sessions
- Panel 5, DEiVHERSS Competition - Advanced data enrichment and visualization techniques in higher education research and science studies, Organised and chaired by Dr. David Broneske, Dr. Andreas Daniel & Daniel Buck (all DZHW) | Panel 6, Higher education dropout — Overcoming a pessimistic perspective, Organised and chaired by Dr. Frauke Peter & Fabian Trennt (both DZHW) | Panel 7, Multiple competition in science and higher education: Poland and Germany in a comparative perspective, Organised and chaired by Prof. Dr. Anna Kosmützky & Dr. Stephanie Beyer (both LCSS) | Panel 8, The future of higher education governance (research), Organised and chaired by Prof. Dr. Bernd Kleimann (DZHW)
- 11:45 - 13:00
- Lunch
- 13:00 - 14:30
- Parallel sessions
- Panel 9, Trajectories in higher education — An interdisciplinary perspective, Organised and chaired by Dr. Frauke Peter & Prof. Dr. Sandra Buchholz (both DZHW) | Panel 10, Diversity of regional research cultures in the global science systems, Organised and chaired by Dr. Stephan Stahlschmidt & Clemens Blümel (both DZHW) | Panel 11, Higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa as driver of innovation and development, Organised and chaired by Dr. Christoph Gwosć (DZHW)
- 14:30 - 14:45
- Break for changing rooms
- 14:45 - 15:00
- Award ceremony Hackathon + Farewell
