Higher Education Group
Higher Education Group (HEG) conducts research and offers teaching in the field of higher education studies (with disciplinary emphasis on administrative science) at the Faculty of Management and Business. Research in HEG is concentrated on the topics related to higher education policy, management and finance. HEG offers its expertise in research and development to higher education institutions and other stakeholders in Finland and abroad. HEG is international. Our regional specialisation (outside EU) is in China and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Some of the recent research and development projects conducted in HEG / by HEG staff:
- TIETOVA: Tutkimustiedosta toimintaan ja vaikuttavuuteen: Strategisen tutkimuksen rahoitusinstrumentin arviointi
- Gaining Access to Tertiary Education (GATE project) (The Finnish Government)
- UniSecurity: Yliopistojen työntekijöiden ja yliopisto-organisaatioiden turvallisuus (Työsuojelurahasto)
- Vaikuttavuuden mekanismit yhteiskunta- ja humanistisissa tieteissä (Suomen Akatemia)
- Leadership and Management of Ethiopian Universities (LMEU) (Ulkoministeriö)
- Structuring cooperation in doctoral research, transferrable skills training and academic writing instruction in Ukraines regions (DocHub) (Erasmus+)
- Towards Excellence in Engineering Curricula for Dual Education TEEDE (Erasmus+)
- Learning and teaching tools fuelling university relations with the economy of Mozambique and South Africa (LaTFURE) (Erasmus+)
- Modernisation of higher education institutions through enchancement of Human Resources Management function (HRMinHEI) (Erasmus+)
- Governance and Academic Leadership of Chinese and European Universities in the Context of Innovation and Internationalization (LEAD) (Erasmus+)
- Korkeakoulujen kolmas tehtävä ja sen mittaaminen: kansainvälinen selvitys (Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö)
- Tutkimus korkeakoulujen sidosryhmäyhteistyön laadunhallinnasta (Korkeakoulujen arviointineuvosto)
Research
Higher Education Group (HEG) has specialized in research topics of higher education management, governance and finance. HEG´s research activities are multidisciplinary and future-oriented. In addition to high-level scientific research, applicability of research results is important for us.
The following areas are on the focus of HEG´s research expertise.
- The role of higher education institutions in society
- Higher education management and administration
- Higher education finance
Research projects
Recent research projects:
- UniSecurity: Yliopistojen työntekijöiden ja yliopisto-organisaatioiden turvallisuus (Työsuojelurahasto)
- From products to processes: How social sciences and humanities research makes its way beyond academia? (Academy of Finland)
- Korkeakoulujen sidosryhmäyhteistyön laadunhallinta (Korkeakoulujen arviointineuvosto)
- Yliopistojen määräaikaisten tutkijoiden asema ja rooli tietotaloudessa (Työsuojelurahasto)
Recent publications
Aaltonen, M., Edgren-Henrichson, N., Jaakkola, M., Kaakinen, L., Kaiponen, P., Korhonen, K., Kulkki, K., Laakso, M., Lamberg, J., Lattu, A., Nygren, P., Syrjämäki, S., Varkemaa, J., & Vilén, T. (2021). Tutkimusjulkaisujen avoimen saatavuuden suositus tutkimusrahoittajille. (2021 ed.) (Vastuullisen tieteen julkaisusarja). https://doi.org/10.23847/isbn.9789525995411
Abebe, R. (2021). Trust Between Quality Assurance Agencies and Higher Education Institutions and its Implications for Quality Management Models. (Tampere University Dissertations 381). Tampere University. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1869-7
Juusola, H., Nori, H., Lyytinen, A., Kohtamäki, V. & Kivistö, J. (2021). Ulkomaiset tutkinto-opiskelijat suomalaisissa korkeakouluissa: Miksi Suomeen on päädytty ja kiinnostaako opiskelu Suomessa opintojen jälkeen? (Eurostudent VII -tutkimuksen artikkelisarja. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2021:14).
Kanniainen, J-P., Pekkola, E., & Kivistö, J. (2021). Emerging Ideas of ‘New Governance’ in Higher Education. In J. D. Branch, & B. Christiansen (Eds.), The Marketisation of Higher Education: Concepts, Cases, and Criticisms (1 ed., pp. 47-73). (Marketing and Communication in Higher Education). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67441-0_3
Ma, J. & Cai, Y. (2021). Innovations in an institutionalised higher education system: the role of embedded agency. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-021-00679-7
Nori, H., Juusola, H., Kohtamäki, V., Lyytinen, A. & Kivistö, J. (2021). Korkeakoulutuksen saavutettavuus ja tasa-arvo Suomessa ja verrokkimaissa: GATE-hankkeen loppuraportti. (Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminnan julkaisusarja 2021:12).
Nori, H., Lyytinen, A., Juusola, H., Kohtamäki, V. & Kivistö, J. (2021). Marginaaliryhmät korkeakoulutuksessa: opiskelemaan hakeutuminen, opiskelukokemukset ja tulevaisuuden suunnitelmat. (Eurostudent VII -tutkimuksen artikkelisarja. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2021:26).
More publications
Arnhold, N., Ziegele, F. & Kivistö, J. (2020). Under pressure: COVID-19 and the funding of European higher education. World Bank Blogs (https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/under-pressure-covid-19-and-funding-european-higher-education).
Balbachevsky, E., Cai, Y., Eggins, H., & Shenderova, S. (2020). Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education Cooperation between the EU and Four Continents: Towards a Typology of the Internationalisation of Higher Education. In E. Balbachevsky, Y. Cai, H. Eggins, & S. Shenderova (Eds.), Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents (Vol. 49, pp. 199-214). (Global Perspectives on Higher Education).. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445420_012
Balbachevsky, E., Cai, Y., Eggins, H., & Shenderova, S. (2020). Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445420
Balbachevsky, E., Cai, Y., Shenderova, S., & Eggins, H. (2020). Higher Education Cooperation between the EU and Countries in Four Continents: From the Perspective of the Internationalisation of Higher Education. In E. Balbachevsky, Y. Cai, H. Eggins, & S. Shenderova (Eds.), Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents (Vol. 49, pp. 3-12). (Global Perspectives on Higher Education; Vol. 49).. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445420_001
Balbachevsky, E. & Kohtamäki, V. (2020). University, science and the new (and old) academic roles: inner sources of institutional resilience. Sociologias 22 (54), 64-86.
Cai, Y. (2020, Jan). China’s 2020 target: reshaping global mobility flows: European Association for International Education.
Cai, Y. (2020). ‘Innovation in Innovation’: A Review of Henry Etzkowitz and Chunyan Zhou, The Triple Helix: University–Industry–Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Second Edition) Routledge, Abingdon, 2017, 328 pp. MINERVA, 58(4), 651-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-020-09418-1
Cai, Y., & Etzkowitz, H. (2020). Theorizing the Triple Helix model: Past, present, and future. Triple Helix: A Journal of University-Industry-Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 6, 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1163/21971927-bja10003
Cai, Y., Ma, J., & Qiongqiong, C. (Eds.) (2020). Higher Education in Innovation Ecosystems. Sustainability. http://10.3390/books978-3-03936-576-0
Cai, Y., Ma, J. & Chen Q. (2020). Higher Education in Innovation Ecosystems. Sustainability 12 (11), 43-76.
Cai, Y., & Zheng, G. (2020). China's Policies and Practices with Respect to Higher Education Cooperation with the EU. In E. Balbachevsky, Y. Cai, H. Eggins, & S. Shenderova (Eds.), Building Higher Education Cooperation with the EU: Challenges and Opportunities from Four Continents (Vol. 49, pp. 68-85). (Global Perspectives on Higher Education; Vol. 49).. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445420_005
Girkontaitė, A., Benneworth, P. & Muhonen, R. (2020). Different worlds? Finding constructive complementarity between academic research and societal impact activities. Darbai ir dienos / Deeds and Days 73, 65-80.
Hjelt, J., Pekkola, E., Stenvall, J., & Mehari, Y. (2020). Public engagement in responsible research and innovation, Draft of an Online Learning Module. RRIL-Working Paper 01/2020. (dia-e-logos Working Paper; No. 01/2020).
Hjelt, J., Pekkola, E., Stenvall, J. & Mehari, Y. (2020). Responsible Research & Innovation in Finland : Responsible Research and Innovation Learning. (dia-e-logos Discussion Paper; No. 02/2020). http://dia-e-logos.eu/en/2020/06/08/responsible-research-innovation-in-finland/
Juusola, H. (2020). Perspectives on Quality of Higher Education in the Context of Finnish Education Export. (Tampere University Dissertations - Tampereen yliopiston väitöskirjat ; Vol. 300). Tampere University. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-1679-2
Juusola, H. & Kohtamäki, V. (2020). Tasa-arvo ja yhdenvertaisuus korkeakoulutuksessa - Esittelyssä GATE-hankkeen verrokkimaa Ruotsi. Valtioneuvoston selvitys- ja tutkimustoiminta (https://tietokayttoon.fi/julkaisu?pubid=36101).
Kivistö, J. & Pausits, A. (2020). Erasmus Mundus. Teoksessa David, M. & Amey, M. (toim.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education. London: Sage publications, 471-472.
Kivistö, J. (2020). Onko korkeakoulujen tulosrahoitus osoitus epäluottamuksesta vai luottamuksesta? In J. Kallunki, T. Saarinen, & T. Siekkinen (Eds.), Yhdistys, tutkimus, tutkijuus: Korkeakoulututkimuksen seura 20 vuotta (pp. 195-197). http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8384-0
Kohtamäki, V. (2020). Autonomy-driven segmentation for competition among Finnish universities: leaders' perceptions. Studies in Higher Education.
Kohtamäki, V. (2020). Tampereen yliopiston KOHA-opinnot korkeakouluhallinnon asiantuntijoille. In J. Kallunki, T. Saarinen, & T. Siekkinen (Eds.), Yhdistys, tutkimus, tutkijuus: Korkeakoulututkimuksen seura 20 vuotta (pp. 198-201). http://www.urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8384-0
Kohtamäki, V. & Kaila, E. (2020). Access to higher education. Teoksessa Leal Filho, Wilho et al. (toim.) Reduced Inequalities: Springer.
Kohtamäki, V., Pekkola, E. & Kivistö, J.. (2020). Korkeakouluhallinto - Johtaminen, talous ja politiikka. Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
Koivukangas, P., Roine, A., Kohtamäki, V. & Passi, M. (2020). Katsaus yliopiston budjetointiin. Tiedepolitiikka 45 (1), 21-33.
Kuoppakangas, P., Suomi, K., Pekkola, E., Kivistö, J., Kallio, T. & Stenvall, J. (2020). Theoretical, practical and hybrid ex-academics: Career transfer stories. European Educational Research Journal.
Lattu, A. (2020). Tutkijayrittäjyyden inho ja kapitalismin puutteet. Tieteessä tapahtuu, 38(4), 41-44. https://journal.fi/tt/article/view/98127
Lattu, A. & Cai, Y. (2020). Tensions in the Sustainability of Higher Education- the Case of Finnish Universities. Sustainability 12 (5), 19-41.
Muhonen, R. & Ursin, J. (2020). Tuntematon tunnetuksi: kansainvälistyvän yliopiston ja kehittyvien opiskelijavalintojen haasteet. Teoksessa Ursin, J. & Muhonen, R. (toim.) Tuntematon korkeakoulutus. Jyväskylä: Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura, 9-22. (Kasvatusalan tutkimuksia 80).
Muhonen, R., & Vuolanto, P. (2020). Suomalainen yliopistoihin kohdistuva korkeakoulututkimus väitöskirjojen valossa. In J. Kallunki, T. Saarinen, & T. Siekkinen (Eds.), Yhdistys, tutkimus, tutkijuus: Korkeakoulututkimuksen seura 20 vuotta (pp. 36-56). http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8384-0
Pyykkö, R., Kivistö, J., Pirttilä, A., Wallenius, J., Huusko, M., Leppänen, O., Mustonen, K. & Nordblad, M. (2020). Korkeatasoisella osaamisella työelämään: Humanistisen alan, kauppatieteiden ja liiketalouden, tekniikan ja yhteiskuntatieteellisen korkeakoulutuksen arvioinnit. Helsinki: Karvi. (Tiivistelmät 1/2020).
Seppälä, U., Kivistö, J., Joas, M., Kaikkonen, V., Rantanen, T., Rantanen, T., Tiilikainen, T. & Nordblad, M. (2020). Yhteiskuntatieteellisen korkeakoulutuksen arviointi. Helsinki: Karvi. (Kansallinen koulutuksen arviointikeskus, Julkaisut 2/2020).
Ursin, J. & Muhonen, R. (toim.) (2020). Tuntematon korkeakoulutus. Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura, Kasvatusalan tutkimuksia (80): Suomen kasvatustieteellinen seura.
Vellamo, T., Pekkola, E., Siekkinen, T. & Cai, Y. (2020). Technical Identity in a MergerProcess—Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Teoksessa Geschwind, L., Broströmn, A. & Larsen, K. (toim.) Technical Universities Past, present and future: Springer, 165-190. (Higher Education Dynamics 56).
Yan, F., Cai, Y., & Peters, M. (2020). Higher Education in China: A special section in the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory: the Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7
Zheng, G. (2020). Quality and quality assurance of Europe-China joint doctoral education: An institutional logics perspective. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. (Tampere University Dissertations - Tampereen yliopiston väitöskirjat 263).
Abebe, R.T. & Ford, K. (2019). Student feedback channels in Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees: insights for international joint programmes. Quality in Higher Education 1 (25), 38-57.
Cai, Y. (2019). China-Europe Higher Education Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges. Frontiers of Education in China 14 (2), 167–179.
Cai, Y. (2019). University mergers in China. Teoksessa Cremonini, L., Paivandi, S., Joshi K. M (toim.) Mergers in Higher Education: Practices and Policies. New Delhi: Studera Press, 127–146.
Cai, Y., Liu, B. & Xiao, C. (2019). Experience of Sino-Finnish joint degree provision: practitioners’ perspectives. Teoksessa Liu, H., Dervin, F. & Du, X. (toim.) Nordic-Chinese Intersections within Education. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 233–256.
Cai, Y., Ramis Ferrer, B., Martinez L. & Jose L. (2019). Building University-Industry Co-Innovation Networks in Transnational Innovation Ecosystems: Towards a Transdisciplinary Approach of Integrating Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence. Sustainability 11 (17), 1-23.
Cai, Y., Yang, P. & Lyytinen, A. (2019). The role of non-research universities in regional innovation systems in China. Teoksessa Varga, A. & Erdős, K. (toim.) Handbook of universities and regional development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 279–300.
Cai, Y. & Zuo, B. (2019). From the Finnish Experience to the Chinese Path: Review and Reflections on Chinese Research on Finnish Education. ECNU Review of Education 2 (2), 217–233.
Cremonini, L., Mehari, Y. & Adamu, A. Y. (2019). University mergers in Finland. In Cremonini, L., Paivandi, S. & Joshi, K., M. (Eds.) Mergers in Higher Education: practices and policies. New Delhi: Studera Press, 289–306.
De Jong, S. & Muhonen R. (2019). Ahead of the Game – How impact is an additional hurdle for scholars from widening countries to receiving EU funding. LSE Impact blog (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/02/18/ahead-of-the-game-how-impact-is-an-additional-hurdle-for-scholars-from-widening-countries-to-receiving-eu-funding/).
Hansen, H., F., Geschwind, L., Kivistö, J., Pekkola, E., Pinheiro, R. & Pulkkinen, K. (2019). Balancing accountability and trust: university reforms in the Nordic countries. Higher Education 78, 557-573.
Kaila, E. & Kohtamäki, V. (2019). KOHA - Kompassi korkeakouluhallinnon kehittämiseen. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto.
Kallunki, J., Kivistö, J. & Kohtamäki, V. (2019). Funding of Higher Education (Finland). In Kauko, J., Jacob, W. J. (Eds.) Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies: Bloomsbury Academic.
Kivistö J., Pekkola E., Nordstrand Berg L., Foss Hansen H., Geschwind L., Lyytinen A. (2019). Performance in Higher Education Institutions and Its Variations in Nordic Policy. In Pinheiro R., Geschwind L., Foss Hansen H., Pulkkinen K. (Eds.) Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education: A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries: Palgrave Macmillan, 37–67.
Kivistö, J., Pekkola, E. & Pausits, A. (2019). Academic Careers and Promotions in Finland and Austria: System and Institutional Perspectives. In Mahat, M.; Tatebe, J. (Eds.) Achieving Academic Promotion. Bingley: Emerald, 105–125.
Kohtamäki, V. (2019). Yliopistojen toiminnan duaalisuus. Tieteessä tapahtuu 37 (5), 40-42.
Kuoppakangas, P., Suomi, K., Stenvall, J., Pekkola, E., Kivistö, J. & Kallio, T. (2019). Revisiting the five problems of public sector organisations and reputation management: the perspective of higher education practitioners and ex-academics. International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing 16 (2-4), 147–171.
Liu, C. & Cai, Y. (2019). The role of university as institutional entrepreneur in regional innovation system: Towards an analytical framework. Teoksessa Daniel, A. D., Teixeira, A., A. C. & Torres Preto, M. (toim.) Examining the role of entrepreneurial universities in regional development: IGI Global, 133–156.
Lyytinen A., Liljeroos J., Pekkola E., Kosonen J., Mykkänen M., Kivistö J. (2019). Ammatillinen opettajankoulutus Suomessa: reunaehdot, rakenteet ja profiilit. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2019:10. Helsinki: Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö. Saatavilla online: http://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/161473/OKM_10_2019_Ammatillinen%20opettajankoulutus%20Suomessa.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Mathies, C., Kivistö, J. & Birnbaum, M. (2019). Following the money? Performance based funding and the changing publication patterns of Finnish academics. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00394-4 Open Access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10734-019-00394-4
Muhonen, R., Benneworth, P. & Olmos-Peñuela, J. (2019). From productive interactions to impact pathways: Understanding the key dimensions in developing SSH research societal impact. Research Evaluation, 1–14.
Nikula, P-T. & Kivistö, J. (2019). Monitoring of Education Agents Engaged in International Student Recruitment: Perspectives From the Agency Theory. Journal of Studies in International Education, 212-231.
Pekkola, E. & Kivistö, J. (2019). Government, Policy, and the Role of the State in Higher Education (Finland). In Kauko, J. & Jacob, W. J. (Eds.) Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies: Bloomsbury Academic.
Pekkola, E. & Kivistö, J. (2019). Management, Leadership, and Governance in Higher Education (Finland). In Kauko, J. & Jacob, J. W. (Eds.) Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies: Bloomsbury Academic.
Pinheiro R., Aarrevaara T., Nordstrand Berg L., Fumasoli T., Geschwind L., Foss Hansen H., Hernes H., Kivistö J., Krog Lind J., Lyytinen A., Pekkola E., Pulkkinen K., Stensaker B., Söderlind J (2019). Nordic Higher Education in Flux: System Evolution and Reform Trajectories. In Pinheiro R., Geschwind L., Foss Hansen H., Pulkkinen K. (Eds.) Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education: A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries: Palgrave Macmillan, 69–107.
Pulkkinen K., Aarrevaara T., Nordstrand Berg L., Geschwind L., Foss Hansen H., Hernes H., Kivistö J., Krog Lind J., Lyytinen A., Pekkola E., Pinheiro R., Stensaker B., Söderlind, J. (2019). Does It Really Matter? Assessing the Performance Effects of Changes in Leadership and Management Structures in Nordic Higher Education. In Pinheiro R., Geschwind L., Foss Hansen H., Pulkkinen K. (Eds.) Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education: A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries: Palgrave Macmillan, 3–36.
Suomi, K., Kuoppakangas, P., Stenvall, J., Pekkola, E. & Kivistö, J. (2019). Revisiting “the shotgun wedding of industry and academia”: empirical evidence from Finland. International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing 16 (1), 81–102.
Zheng, G., Kivistö, J., Shen, W. & Cai, Y. (2019). Comparing Doctoral Education in China and Finland: An Institutional Logics Perspective. Teoksessa Liu, H., Dervin, F. & Du, X. (toim.) Nordic-Chinese Intersections within Education. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 197–232.
Zheng, G. (2019). Deconstructing Doctoral Students’ Socialization from an Institutional Logics Perspective: A Qualitative Study of the Socialization of Chinese Doctoral Students in Finland. Frontiers of Education in China 14 (2), 206-233.
Cai Y. (2018). University’s Regional Engagement in China. In Peters M. A (ed.) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Singapore: Springer, 1–7.
Cai Y. (2018). What drives the choices of mixed methods in higher education research? In Pekkola E., Kivistö J., Kohtamäki V., Yuzhuo, C. & Lyytinen A. (Eds.) Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Higher Education Management and Transformation: An advanced reader for PhD students. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 29–50.
De Jong, S. & Muhonen R. (2018). Who benefits from ex ante societal impact evaluation in the European funding arena? A cross-country comparison of societal impact capacity in the social sciences and humanities. Research Evaluation.
Kivistö J., Muhonen R., Nokkala T., Saarinen T. & Siekkinen T. (2018). Yliopistojen rahoitusmalliin tarvitaan lisää vakautta. Tiedepolitiikka (4), 59–61.
Kohtamäki, V. (2018). Some lisännyt tutkijoiden turvattomuutta. Acatiimi 21 (6), 38–39.
Kohtamäki, V. & Balbachevsky. E. (2018). An explorative study of the consequences of university autonomy in Finland and Brazil. Higher Education Quarterly, 1–15.
Kohtamäki,V. & Balbachevsky, E. (2018). University autonomy: From past to present. In Pekkola E., Kivistö J., Kohtamäki V., Cai Y. & Lyytinen A. (Eds.) Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Higher Education Management and Transformation: An advanced reader for PhD students. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 179–194.
Kohtamäki V. & Olsson Å. (2018). Performance management in public administration. In. Farazmand Ali (ed.) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Cham: Springer.
Kohtamäki, V. & Virta, S. (2018). Yliopistojen henkilöstön turvallisuus. Acatiimi 20 (1), 38–39.
Liu C. & Cai Y. (2018). Triple Helix Model and Institutional Logics in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Science and Public Policy 45 (2), 221–231.
Lyytinen A. (2018). The concept of the entrepreneurial university for analysing the organisational transformationof higher education institutions. In Pekkola E., Kivistö J., Kohtamäki V., Cai Y. & Lyytinen A. (Eds.) Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Higher Education Management and Transformation: An advanced reader for PhD students. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 105–118.
Lönnqvist, A., Laihonen, H., Cai, Y. & Hasanen, K. (2018). Re-Framing Education Export From the Perspective of Intellectual Capital Transfer. Journal of studies in international education 22 (4), 353–368.
Mehari Y. (2018). The advent of managerialism in the Ethiopian higher education system and organisational responses through the lens of neo-institutional and resource dependence theories. In Pekkola E., Kivistö J., Kohtamäki V., Cai, Y., Lyytinen A, (Eds.) Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Higher Education Management and Transformation: An advanced reader for PhD students. Tampere: Tampere University Press, 195–212.
Muhonen R. (2018). Vaikutusten mittaamisesta prosessien ja vuorovaikutuksen tukemiseen. Tiedepolitiikka 43 (2), 28-34.
Nikula P.-T. & Kivistö J. (2018). Hiring Education Agents for International Student Recruitment: Perspectives from Agency Theory. Higher Education Policy 31 (4), 535–557.
Pekkola E., Kivistö J., Kohtamäki V., Cai Y. & Lyytinen A. (Eds.). (2018). Theoretical and methodological perspectives on higher education management and transformation: An advanced reader for PhD students. Tampere: Tampere University Press.
Pekkola E., Siekkinen T., Kivistö J. & Lyytinen A. (2018). Management and academic profession: comparing the Finnish professors with and without management positions. Studies in Higher Education. 43(11), 1949–1963.
Puonti P. & Kohtamäki V. (2018). Miksi korkeakoulut tavoittelevat kansainvälisiä kumppanuuksia: Tutkimus suomalaisten ammattikorkeakoulujen keski- ja ylimmän johdon kumppanuuskäsityksistä. Hallinnon Tutkimus 37 (4), 257–269.
Shumilova Y. (2018). The role of institutional entrepreneurs’ agency in enhancing international graduate employability: the case of mentoring program. In Korhonen V. & Alenius P. (Eds.) Internationalisation and Transnationalisation in Higher Education. Bern: Peter Lang. (Studies in Vocational and Continuing Education 17).
Välimaa J. & Muhonen R. (2018). Reproducing social equality across the generations: The Nordic model of high participation higher education in Finland. In Cantwell B., Marginson S. & Smolentseva A. (Eds.) High Participation Systems of Higher Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 358–385.
Zheng G. & Cai Y. (2018). Collaboration between Europe and China in Doctoral Education: Historical Development and Future Challenges. In Oleksiyenko A. V, Zha Q. & Chirikov I., Li J. (Eds.) International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: Soviet Legacy in China and Russia. Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC), 227-245. (CERC Studies in Comparative Education 35).
Zheng, G., Shen, W., & Cai, Y. (2018). Institutional logics of Chinese doctoral education system. [journal article]. Higher Education, 76(5), 753–770.
Zuo, B. & Cai, Y. (2018). [Trust : the cultural gene of Finnish education]. Renmin Jiaoyu (7), 72-75.
Cai, Y. (2017). From an Analytical Framework for Understanding the Innovation Process in Higher Education to an Emerging Research Field of Innovations in Higher Education. Review of Higher Education 40 (4), 585–616.
Cai, Y., Tian, M., Tang, X. & Teng, J. (2017). What are changed in the new Finnish curriculum. Chinese Teachers 2017 (2), 90–93.
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Studies
HEG provides teaching for three different student categories: for non-degree students, for Master's degree students and for Doctoral students. HEG's current programmes for these student groups are the following:
- Master's Degree Programme in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE) 120 ECTS
- Study Programme in Administration and Management of Higher Education (KOHA) 40/50 ECTS
HEG provides continuing education for administrators, managers, professionals and specialists working the field of higher education. Study Programme in Administration and Management of Higher Education (KOHA) forms the core of HEG's non-degree continuing education services.
HEG´s doctoral education concentrates on themes of higher education policy, higher education management and governance as well as higher education finance. At the moment we have ca 20 doctoral students (full-time or part-time).
Laura Himanen
Implementing the ideals of responsible research evaluation
Heli Huhtala
Transmission of political steering in Finnish universities
Outi Irjala
Professional administrative personnel and their values in conduct of university in Finland
Kaisa Kurki
Internationalisation and international profiling of Finnish universities incentiviced by the new funding model
Helena Kuusisto-Ek
Strategic Management in Higher Education Organisations / Korkeakoulujen strateginen johtaminen
Annina Lattu
Open Science in University-Industry Collaboration in Finland and China
Mirella Nordblad
External quality assurance and enhancement of higher education institutions in Finland - The impact of quality audits
Anu Nuutinen
Success in the academic career from the perspectives of ERC Starting Grant awarded researchers and academic leaders (SUCCESS-ERC-SG)
Nanna Peltosaari
Workplace bullying in Higher Education and Organizational Culture / Työpaikkakiusaaminen korkeakoulussa ja organisaatiokulttuuri
Andrea Strelcova
Policy, Practice & People in Sino-European Research Collaboration after 1978
Tea Vellamo
Technical Identity in a University Merger: Organisational, disciplinary, and individual perspectives
Development projects
HEG produces and refines research information on higher education management, administration, finance and policy. We offer expert services (studies, research, consultation, expert advice) as a group and on an individual basis to higher education institutions and various stakeholders.
- Tutkimustiedosta toimintaan ja vaikuttavuuteen: Strategisen tutkimuksen rahoitusinstrumentin arviointi
- Leadership and Management of Ethiopian Universities (LMEU) (Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2017–2020)
- Ammatillinen opettajankoulutus Suomessa: Reunaehdot, rakenteet ja profiilit (OKM, 2019)
- Quality of Administration in Higher Education (SUHF, 2017)
- Structuring cooperation in doctoral research, transferrable skills training, and academic writing instruction in Ukraine's regions (DocHub) (Erasmus+, 2017)
- Towards Excellence in Engineering Curricula for Dual Education (TEEDE) (Erasmus+)
- Vaikuttavuus syntyy vuorovaikutuksesta (UNIFI, 2016)
- Neliportaisen tutkijanuranuramallin arviointihanke (OKM, 2016)
- Korkeakoulujen kolmas tehtävä ja sen mittaaminen: kansainvälinen selvitys (OKM, 2015)
- Learning and teaching tools fuelling university relations with the economy of Mozambique and South Africa (LaTFURE) (Erasmus+)
- Modernisation of higher education institutions through enchancement of Human Resources Management function (HRMinHEI) (Erasmus+)
- NetMib (Network of multidisciplinary ideation and business model generation) (Erasmus+)
- Effects of changes in leadership and management structures in Nordic higher education (Nordic Research Council)
- The EUCNDOC project: Enhancing the visibility of European Higher education and strengthening the dialogue and cooperation with Chinese stakeholders in the field of doctoral education (2013–2016)
- The LETAE project: Reinforce the Labour Efficiency of Tertiary Adult Education at Universities (2013-2016)
- Education for Leadership, Intelligence and Talent Encouraging (ELITE) (Tempus)
- Opetuksen ja TKI:n johtaminen ammattikorkeakouluissa (OKM, 2010)
