Speakers’ Biographies

Professor Jürgen Barkhoff

Professor Barkhoff was elected Fellow of Trinity College in 2000 and has served as Director of the Centre for European Studies (2002–2005) and as Registrar of the College (2007–2011). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group network of European universities and was Chair of its Culture, Arts and Humanities Task Force (2006–2011). Professor Barkhoff’s main research interests are in the fields of medical humanities (medicine, psychology and literature), environmental humanities (nature writing and eco-literature) and in addressing questions of identity and culture in Europe. His recent publications include Networking Across Borders and Frontiers: Demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society (2009), which he co-edited with Helmut Eberhardt; Schweiz Schreiben: ZuKonstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Mythos Schweiz in der Gegenwartsliteratur [on the construction of Swiss national myths in literature] (2010), co-edited with Valerie Heffernan; and Körperkult - Körperzwang - Körperstörung im Spiegel von Psychopathologie, Literatur und Kultur [Cult of the Body: Pathology of the Body in Psychopathology, Literature and Culture] (2010), co-edited with Dietrich von Engelhardt.

Professor Jürgen Barkhoff is Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor in German at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He studied German and history in Tübingen, Dublin and Hamburg. He was appointed to a lectureship in German and European Studies in Trinity College in 1995 after a Fellowship at the Humanities Institute of Advanced Studies Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Germany.

Tom Boland

He is a member of the Board of the Central Applications Office (CAO) and of the Governing Board of IMHE, a sub-programme of the OECD Education Directorate.

Tom Boland holds degrees in Civil Engineering and Law, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1987. Professor David Charles

Professor Charles was previously Dean of Research at Curtin Business School, Perth Australia, and Professor of Business Innovation at Newcastle University in the U.K., where he was also founding Director of the research centre for knowledge, innovation, technology and enterprise, Director of the Institute for Policy and Practice, and Research Director/alternate Head of the Business School. Professor Charles’s research experience encompasses university engagement with business and communities, technology transfer, regional innovation policy, innovative clusters, innovation management, and urban competitiveness.

Tom Boland is Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority (HEA), a position he has held since January 2004. The HEA is a statutory body established to allocate public funding to Irish higher education institutions; to oversee performance of the higher education and research sector generally; and to advise the Minister for Education and Skills on the development of the sector. Tom Boland is also Chairperson of the Board of HEAnet—a public-sector company which provides high-quality internet services to the Irish education and research system.

David Charles is Professor of Regional Economic Development and Policy at the European Policies Research Centre (EPRC) in the University of Strathclyde, U.K.. The EPRC is a specialist centre researching regional policies, primarily focusing on EU member countries and the policies of the EU itself.

Professor Charles has led or been a co-investigator of around 80 projects, funded by the European Commission, U.K. Government, ESRC, OECD and other national and regional bodies. His recent research on universities and engagement includes a project on 'Universities and Community Engagement: Learning with Excluded Communities' for the U.K.’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) programme on the ‘Regional Impact of Higher Education’. Previous work on universities has been sponsored by the EU (FP4), U.K. national government bodies, regional agencies, university associations, and the OECD. This includes a major study in 2001 for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Universities UK on the ‘Regional Mission’ of higher education institutions, and the development of the Higher Education–Business and Community Interaction (HE–BCI) survey for the U.K.’s higher education funding councils and Office of Science and Technology. He has undertaken peer-reviews of university regional engagement with the OECD in Australia and Spain, and is currently involved in a project for the European Commission on the ‘Evaluation of the Main Achievements of Cohesion Policy Programmes and Projects over the Longer Term in 15 Selected Regions’. Professor Charles is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Regional Studies Association, and currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, the University of Tampere, and Curtin University.

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn

She works closely with the International Association of Universities (IAU), and is Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool, U.K.. Professor Hazelkorn is a member of the Editorial Boards for Higher Education Policy and the International Journal for Researcher Development, and formerly for Higher Education Management and Policy, in addition to which she is also a member of the International Committee for the American Education Research Association. She holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Kent, U.K., respectively.

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn is Vice-President of Research and Enterprise, and Dean of the Graduate Research School, at Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, in addition to which she also leads DIT’s Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU). She is a Board member of Ireland’s Higher Education Authority (HEA), and is, or has been, a member of international teams for the Netherlands, Australia, Spain, Poland, Germany, Finland and Romania, as well as serving as a consultant to the OECD.

Professor Hazelkorn has authored/co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs, books and book chapters, in addition to which she writes a regular blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her research and commentary has been reported by The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Economist, the Times Higher Education, U.S. News & World Report, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Australian and others. Professor Hazelkorn is leading an IAU study of ‘The Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Higher Education: Higher Education Leadership and Management Challenges’, and is co-leader of an ESF project on measuring the societal impacts of universities' research into arts and the humanities (HERAVALUE). Professor Hazelkorn is the author of Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), a second edition is due out in late 2013.

André Kristiansen

Prior to 2008, André Kristiansen was employed at the Norwegian Ministry of Labour, working with the social welfare system. He holds a degree in economics (cand. oecon.) from the Norwegian School of Economics, and now lives outside Oslo.

Professor George D. Kuh

Since 2008 André Kristiansen has been a Senior Adviser in the Department of Higher Education at the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2009 he has been involved in the Ministry’s analysis of the Norwegian higher education sector, and also works in the fields of the financing and management of Norwegian HEIs and higher education sector. In addition he has been involved in managing the vocational education sector.

George Kuh is Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois and Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at Indiana University (IU). Professor Kuh founded IU’s Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), as well as related instruments for law students, beginning college students, and faculty. He directs the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) and is senior advisor to the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), the first-ever in-depth look at the factors that help or hinder the careers of graduates of arts-intensive training high schools and postsecondary institutions.

At Indiana University, Professor Kuh served as Chairperson of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies (1982–84), Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Education (1985–88), and Associate Dean of the Faculties for the Bloomington campus (1997–2000). Professor Kuh has produced 375 publications and made several hundred presentations on topics related to institutional improvement, college student engagement, assessment strategies, and campus cultures. In addition, he has been a consultant to more than 350 institutions of higher education and educational agencies in the United States and abroad. His contributions have been recognised with major awards from various groups including the American Educational Research Association, Association for Institutional Research, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Council of Independent Colleges, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and National Center on Public Policy in Higher Education. In 2011, NASPA named its award for Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research after him. In addition, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Iowa, Distinguished Alumni Award and Educational Leadership Award for Teaching from St. Cloud State University, several Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards from Indiana University, and Indiana University’s prestigious Tracy Sonneborn Award for a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching. A past-president of ASHE, Professor Kuh holds seven honorary degrees and serves on the Board of Regents at Luther College and on the National Leadership Council for AAC&U’s LEAP initiative. Professor Kuh holds a B.A. from Luther College, an M.S. from St. Cloud State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

Tia Loukkola

Tia Loukkola has authored a range of EUA publications, policy documents and articles on QA and is regularly invited to speak at various events about European QA.She also represents the EUA on

Tia Loukkola is Head of the European University Association (EUA)’s Quality Management unit. In this capacity she is responsible for the EUA’s activities in the fields of quality assurance (QA) and transparency, for leading various QA-related European-level projects, and for managing the EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme. She is currently coordinating, inter alia, the EUA-led project, ‘Rankings in Institutional Strategies and Processes’.

the EQAF Steering Committee and on the E4 Group—the consortium of key stakeholder organisations (ENQA, EUA, ESU and EURASHE) which has authored the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) and established the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR). Before joining EUA in April 2008, Tia worked at the University of Turku, Finland, for ten years in various capacities, both in faculty and central administration. Most of her work was related to the student and international affairs of the University, while she also gained experience in budgeting and human resources. Before moving to the EUA, she served as Planning Officer for strategic management and as the Quality Manager of the University. Tia holds a Master’s degree in French language and culture with minor specialisation in journalism, Spanish language and culture, and comparative literature from the University of Turku.

Dr. Eucharia Meehan

On joining the HEA, Dr. Meehan directed the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI), through which over €1.2 billion of Exchequer and non-Exchequer funds were allocated to develop strategic research infrastructure and capacity. Prior to the HEA, she was Head of Programme Management (Irish and US sites) at Elan Biotechnology Research (EBR). She is a former Chair of Women in Technology and Science (WITS) and a former member of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of Ireland. Currently she is a Board member of the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT), and of the School of Cosmic Physics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS).

Dr. Eucharia Meehan has been Head of Research and Innovation at the Higher Education Authority (HEA), the statutory planning and development body for higher education and research in Ireland, since 2002. In 2012, she was appointed Director of the newly formed Irish Research Council. The Council, which builds on the excellent work of two former councils, the IRCHSS and the IRCSET, has a mission to enable and sustain a vibrant and creative research community in Ireland. Dr. Meehan represents the Council on the National Prioritisation Action Group chaired by Mr. Sean Sherlock, T.D, Minister for Research and Innovation.

Professor Sarah Moore

She has recently been appointed by the Minister for Education and Skills to chair Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, which will adopt a truly sectoral and collaborative approach to teaching and learning innovation, development enhancement and endorsement. Her own research interests include learning orientations and environments in work and education, student retention in third level environments, professional development in academia, the creative and cognitive processes associated with academic writing, teaching innovation and diversity awareness and management. She has published several books and many journal articles in the areas of academic practice, student development, and learning dynamics. She has served as a member of the Board of Ireland’s Higher Education Authority, of the SEDA papers committee in the U.K., and on many national and international panels focused on awarding, recognising and assessing teaching

excellence. Muiris O’Connor

Before joining the HEA, Muiris spent five years as Statistician in the Department of Education and Science, prior to which he worked with the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI), the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and with the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).

Muiris O’Connor is Head of Policy and Planning in the Higher Education Authority (HEA) of Ireland. Further to joining the HEA in 2006 as Senior Policy Analyst, he served as Acting Head of the National Office for Equity of Access to Higher Education (July 2007–July 2008) before assuming his current role.

Professor Moore is the Associate Vice-President Academic at the University of Limerick. She has been an advocate of teaching and learning in higher education for many years. At the University of Limerick her role has involved initiating innovative strategies for learner engagement, learner support and teaching excellence. She believes strongly in institutional collaboration particularly when it comes to enhancing teaching and learning throughout the Irish higher education sector, and led several regional projects funded under Ireland’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF).

Muiris is a member of the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) and is on the Editorial Board of Irish Educational Studies. Over the years, Muiris has written reports across a wide range of areas including social entrepreneurship, homelessness, lifelong learning, fees, access to higher education, gender in Irish education, flexible learning, student progression, and performance evaluation in higher education. He also played a key role in the preparation of Ireland’s National Strategy for Higher Education to 2030. He managed the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), and currently works on the implementation of the ICT Action Plan and of the National Strategy. In addition, Muiris was centrally involved in the planning and establishment of Ireland’s National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, and he is a member of the Steering Group for the Irish National Student Survey (INSS).

Dr. Vivienne Patterson

Dr. Patterson is also involved in producing the HEA’s annual bulletin of higher education data; in the annual analysis of data from Ireland’s Central Applications Office (CAO) on trends in applications to Irish higher education; and in the development of comprehensive institutional profiles for the Irish higher education sector. Dr. Patterson is a member of the Steering Group of Ireland’s National Employers’ Survey and of the Irish National Student Survey (INSS).

Dr. Vivienne Patterson is Head of Statistics in the Higher Education Authority (HEA)—a position that she has held since 2006. Prior to this, she spent 3 years as a Senior Researcher in the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit of FÁS, and 4 years as a Senior Researcher with the Skills Initiative Unit, a Government-funded agency. She has been involved in the production of a number of educational publications during her career, including Monitoring Irelands Skills Supply: Trends in Education/Training Outputs, National Skills Bulletin, What Do Graduates Do? and A Study of Progression in Irish Higher Education.

Professor Jean-Charles Pomerol

Professor Pomerol also served as Acting Head of the Technological Transfer Office of UPMC for a five-year period, and was a project manager for computer science, automatics and signal processing at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), also for five years. He was formerly the Head of the Computer Science Department of UPMC, and for six years he led the lab of Artificial Intelligence of UPMC/CNRS. He is still an advisor for foreign affairs of the “Institut National des Sciences de l’Ingénierie et des Systèmes” of the CNRS, and belongs to the board of University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC). Professor Pomerol received his M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Paris in 1964 and he succeeded in the Agregation of Mathematics in 1968. While the first part of his career was devoted to game theory and convex analysis, from 1974–1981 he worked in the field of convex programming. During this time he authored or co-authored 29 papers, 10 of which were in international journals. He defended his Ph.D., on optimization, in 1981. By the eighties, Professor Pomerol had turned to Computer Science and mainly to computer-aided decision and ‘intelligent’ decision support-systems. He co-authored with Barba-Romero a book, Multicriterion Decision Making for Management (Kluwer, 2000), and his current research interests are in multi-criteria decision-making, and also on the pragmatics of the decision. These interests resulted in a new book, Decision-Making and Action (Wiley, 2012). Professor Pomerol founded the Journal of Decision Systems (Taylor and Francis), and is involved in many editorial activities in cooperation with ISTE-Wiley (see www.iste.co.uk).

Professor Jean-Charles Pomerol was born in 1943. He is Emeritus Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) in Paris, France, and a senior advisor of the President. He was formerly Rector of the University from March 2006 to August 2011, prior to which he was Vice-Rector of the University and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the University.

Deborah Roseveare

Between 2007 and 2011 Deborah managed teams providing policy-analysis and advice to help governments develop and implement more effective policies across the education and training spectrum, from early childhood through to higher education and lifelong learning. A New Zealand and British national, Deborah worked in the OECD’s Economics Department between 1993 and 2007 on a broad range of economic and social issues including human capital, fiscal policy, ageing populations, fostering entrepreneurship and structural surveillance, and she prepared a number of country-specific Economic Surveys. Between 1976 and 1993, she held various positions in the public service in New Zealand.

Dr. Irene Sheridan

In 2004 she was appointed Head of Department of Electronic Engineering and in 2007 was selected to lead the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF)-supported ‘Education in Employment’ project. Building on the success of this project, she proposed and managed the REAP (Roadmap for Employment–Academic Partnerships) (www.reap.ie), which was supported through Cycle 2 of the SIF. Both of these projects focus on the interface between enterprise and academia, and on

Dr. Irene Sheridan completed an Honours degree in Electronic Engineering at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) in 1984 and a Research Master’s degree in Satellite and Telecommunications Systems at University College Cork (UCC) in 1986. Following a number of years working in the electronics sector, including 4 years with Apple, she joined the Department of Electronic Engineering in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).

Deborah Roseveare is responsible for the Skills Beyond School Division, whose work spans measuring adult skills, policy-relevant analysis on the development and utilisation of skills for youth and adults, and advice to countries on building more effective skills systems at national, regional and local levels. The Division is also engaged in analysis and policy advice on building skills through more effective vocational education and training and higher education. In addition to managing the Division, Deborah is also part of the Management Group of the Directorate for Education.

the work-place as a valid centre of learning; and both are collaborative projects, involving a total of eleven higher education institutions. In 2012, Irene completed a Doctorate on change management in higher education with the University of Middlesex, U.K.. She is currently Head of the CIT Extended Campus.

Karina Ufert

Karina has broad experience in institutional governance and quality management. She has been a member of a management group at her home institution (Vilnius University), and subsequently participated in a number of institutional reviews undertaken by the European University Association (EUA), the Irish Universities Quality Board (IUQB), and other organisations. Karina is currently involved in drafting the revised European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) for Quality Assurance.

Professor Marijk van der Wende

Professor van der Wende is Vice and past President of the Governing Board of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) of the OECD, Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of World Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong

Professor Marijk van der Wende is the Dean of Amsterdam University College. She is a professor in higher education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an honorary professor at CHEPS, the University of Twente. She chaired the Undergraduate Committee of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and previously chaired its Honours Committee and its Internationalization Board.

Karina Ufert is the Chairperson of the European Students' Union (ESU) for the academic year 2012–2013, prior to which she served as an Executive Committee member (2010–11) and as Vice-Chairperson for the ESU (2011–12). Karina is responsible for overall ESU policy and advocacy coordination. She is also co-chairing the Bologna Follow-up Group for Social Dimension and Lifelong learning (2012–15), and is an elected member of the Bureau of the Steering Committee on Educational Policies and Practices of the Council of Europe (2012–14).

University, Member of the Higher Education Authority Ireland, Member of the Board of the Rathenau Institute, Member of the Scientific Board of the Dutch Military Academy, and of various national and international editorial boards. Professor van der Wende previously held positions at CHEPS, the University of Twente (1998–2008), the University of Amsterdam (1998–2000), the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) in Brussels (1994–1998), and Nuffic (1992–1998), and has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education, at the University of California at Berkeley (U.S.A.). Professor van der Wende holds B.A. degrees in teaching and pedagogy, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in educational sciences, from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht respectively.

Professor Frank Ziegele

He has contributed approximately 100 publications to the field of higher education policy and management, and has realised more than 80 projects in the same field, for instance as co-leader of the U-Multirank project. He is, or has been, a member of different Boards, including the Editorial Board of Wissenschaftsmanagement and Higher Education Management and Policy, and the Executive Board of the German Society for Higher Education Research.

Professor Frank Ziegele is director of the CHE Centre for Higher Education, Gütersloh, Germany, and Professor of Higher Education and Research Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück. He trained as an economist, and his research and publications focus on higher education finance, governance, strategic management, contract management, ranking and controlling. In these areas he also acts as a consultant and trainer.

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