Globalization Broadens Higher Education

Ellen Hazelkorn holds a joint appointment as policy adviser to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and director of the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU) at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland. She is also president of EAIR (European Higher Education Society) and chairperson of the EU Expert Group on Science Education (2014), and on the Management Board of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), at the Institute of Education, UCL. 

Hazelkorn has worked as higher education policy consultant and specialist with international organizations and governments for over 15 years, and regularly undertakes strategic and research evaluations and peer review assessments for European and national research/scientific councils and universities. She has more than 20 years senior experience in higher education, holding positions as vice president of research and enterprise, and dean of the Graduate Research School (2008–2014), and vice president and founding dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology (1995–2008). 

She has authored/co-authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs, books and book chapters e.g., on higher education policy in addition to Irish politics and society; digital technologies, gender, work practices and the cultural industries; relations between the media and the state. She has written several books, including Developing Research in New Institutions and Rankings and The Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence. She edited Global Rankings and the Geo-Politics of Higher Education, and co-authored The Civic University: Meeting the Leadership and Management Challenges and The Impact and Future