Program från SCORE workshop i Stockholm
University Management and the (Re)-Organisation of Academia: Shifting
Paradigms and Perspectives
Research Workshop, Stockholm Centre for Organisational Research
Wednesday 10th October 2018
Programme
9:00
Coffee
Welcome and Introduction
9:15 –10:45
Panel 1: ‘Under New Management: Autonomy, Governance and the Decollegisation of the University’ (Chair: Lambros Roumbanis)
- Lars Engwall: ‘Governance of Present-Day Swedish Universities’
- Sharon Rider and Shirin Ahlback Öberg: ‘The Decollegialization of the Swedish University’
- Mikael Börjesson: Decollegialisation in the Swedish Field of Higher Education
Discussants: Martin Gustasson and Renita Thedvall
10:45
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Panel 2. ‘Marketisation, Privatisation and Entrepreneurship: Universities in the Global Knowledge Economy’ (Chair: Mikael Börjesson)
- Linda Wedlin: The Idea of Global Markets for Universities’
- Martin Gustavsson: ‘The funding of higher education in an era of rapid expansion. From state regulation to market orientation’
- Daniele Cantini: ‘Managing a New Kind of University – Ethnographic insights from low-fees, for-profit new private universities in Egypt’
Discussants: Renita Thedval and Staffan Furusten
12:30 – 1:45
Lunch (Stockholm Universitet, Faculty Club)
1:45- 3:15
Panel 3: ‘Metrics, Management, Performance: Auditing Academia’
(Chair: Nick Lewis)
- Lambros Roumbanis: ‘Research funding and the tragedy of the commons: some remarks on grant peer review, time waste, and anticipatory uncertainty’
- Nils Brunsson: ‘Governing by trust or output measures in higher education - and who is the governor?’
- Cris Shore: ‘“Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse”: Metricised Management, Peformativity and Perverse Incentives’
Discussants: Christina Garsten and Lars Engwall
3:15
Coffee break
3:40 - 4:40
Panel 4: Managing Research and the Academic Mission
(Chair: Daniele Cantini)
- Staffan Furusten: ‘Exploring ideas or exploiting theories? The role of management and performance assessment in the construction of “relevant” research’
- Nick Lewis: ‘Reviewing the PBRF: Reimagining the collective and reinvigorating a collective imagination through a new academic entrepreneurialism’.
Discussants: Sharon Rider and Shirin Öberg
4:40 – 5:00
General discussion / Concluding remarks
6:00 pm
Dinner in Stockholm at “Nybrogatan 38” (address: Nybrogatan 38
114 40 Stockholm)
Stanford/Uppsala Collaboration on the Study of Research Universities
Schedule
2018 Forum: 11-13 July 2018, all events in SCANCOR, CERAS 123, 520 Galvez Mall (unless otherwise specified)
Thursday 12 July, from Stanford
Noon - 1 PM
Lunch / introductions
1 - 3 PM
Presentations and discussion of Carta and the study of Stanford pathways. Mitchell Stevens, Stanford GSE, Brian Cook, Stanford Institutional Research and Decision Support, Andreas Paepcke, Stanford Computer Science
Break / free time
6 PM
Dinner at Pizzeria Delfina
Friday 13 July, From Uppsala
8.30 - 9
Coffee and pastries in SCANCOR
9 - 9.20
Mikael Börjesson: Short presentation of the research in Sociology of
Education and in Higher Education at Uppsala University
9.20 - 9.50
Martin Gustavsson & Andreas Melldahl: From Selective to Universal. The
Organization and Practice of Student Financial Aid in a Social-Democratic Welfare Regime, 1939-2009
9.50 - 10.10
Mikael Börjesson & Tobias Dalberg: The Educational Offer at Uppsala
University. From Bildung to Employability?
10 - 10.20
Jennifer Waddling: Interdisciplinary Research Centres: Organization,
Academic Careers and Disciplinary Belonging. Four Swedish Cases
10.20 - 10.40
Ylva Bergström: Sustainability, Higher Education of Civil Engineers and the Art of Social Engineering in Sweden
10.40 - 11
Break
11 - 11.20
Ashley Haru: Scholarly Intersections: A Mapping of Gender Studies Education and Research in Sweden
11.20 - 11.40
Sara Lindberg: Preparing for Future Transnational Positions of Power: The College of Europe
11.40 - 12.00
Andreas Melldahl: Modes of Reproduction in the Swedish Economic Elite:Education Strategies of the Children of the Top One Percent
12 - 12.45
Lunch
12.45 - 1.30
Tobias Dalberg: Transformations in the Field of Humanities and Social
Sciences in Sweden, 1930-1954: A Study of Career Trajectories and the Accumulation of Assets
1.30 - 3.30
Open discussion re future Uppsala/Stanford joint ventures
3.30 - 6
Break / free time
6.00 PM
Dinner at Anatolian Kitchen