Research Policy and Higher Education Studies
The research group on Research Policy and Higher Education Studies led by Prof Benedetto Lepori, focuses on issues of higher education governance, university management and theory of S&T indicators.
Fields of expertise:
- governance and organisational structures of higher education institutions
- institutional theory, particularly institutional logics approaches and hybrid organisations
- development of data infrastructure for S&T studies
- diversity and characterisation of higher education systems
- comparative analysis of national research policies and funding systems
- indicators to characterise research funding systems and higher education institutions
Current projects include:
- Diversity of higher education systems, differentiation processes and policy mixes
- ETERIV - Implementation and further development of the European Tertiary Education Register
- RISIS 2 - European Research Infrastructure for Science, technology and Innovation policy Studies
Our researchers collaborated and received funding from different academic and public funding institutions...
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- European Commission
- European Social Fund
- Swissuniversities
- Movetia
- Swiss Science Council
Our recent publications include:
- Lepori B., Jongbloed B., & Hicks D. (2023) Handbook of Public Research Funding
- Lepori B., Lambrechts A.A., Wagner-Schuster, D., & Zahradnik, G. (2023) The European Tertiary Education Register. A Reference Database on European Higher Education Institutions
- Cavallaro, M. (2023). Universities of applied sciences’ EU research project participation through the lens of differentiation
- Lambrechts A.A., & Lepori B. (2023) Changes in higher education funding. Performance-based funding in the US and Europe
- Lepori B. (2022) Toward a Data-driven Classification of European Higher Education Institutions
- Lokhtina I., Castelló M., Lambrechts A.A., Löfström E., McGinn M., Skakni I., & van der Weijden I. (2022) The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early career researcher activity, development, career, and well-being: the state of the art
Our research group members include:
Head
Research Fellow
Doctoral Researchers
- Cavallaro, Marco, [email protected]
- Eldemir, Pinar, [email protected]
- Falvo, Ilaria, [email protected]
- Todorovic, Natalija, [email protected]
External/Visiting
- Gay, Mario, USI (Switzerland)
Student Assistant
- Vicari, Eleonora, [email protected]
