Research at HERO
Research on higher education and research is carried out both at the center and at other departments at Uppsala University.
Research profile
HERO has a network of affiliated researchers from variety of different disciplines as well as a Scientific Council.
The research conducted at the center and within the research network can be divided into five main themes:
- Academic freedom, autonomy, governance and organization.
- The economics of higher education and research.
- Teacher and student recruitment.
- Research on scientific disciplines and interdisciplinarity as well as on knowledge production and scientific publishing.
- Internationalization of higher education and research.
Research projects associated with HERO
- Humaniora under omställning: Humanistisk kunskap inför framtiden (Salö m.fl.).
- Constitutive Concealment (Rider & Hyvönen).
- Forskningsfinansieringens effekter: De statliga forskningsrådens etablering och humanvetenskapernas formering, 1947–1977 (Wisselgren, Östh Gustafsson & Dalberg).
- I det allmännas tjänst: Hur upprätthålls ett offentligt etos när statliga myndigheter använder privata konsulter? (Ahlbäck Öberg m.fl.)
- Aspirationer i praktiken: Avgörande faktorer och utfall av ansökningsbeteende till gymnasie- och högre utbildning (Bertilsson, Collsiöö & Dalberg).
- Organisationens Heliga Treenighet: Förändrad administration i moderna universitet (Wedlin, Enwall m.fl.).