Collaboration at HERO

HERO aims to strengthen collaboration with the university and higher education sector. The centre works actively to disseminate and make accessible both its own and others’ research findings for teachers, researchers, students, administrative staff, and people in leadership roles, so that they can use this knowledge in their work. To support the dissemination of new knowledge, HERO will launch its own publication series for, for example, research reports, horizon scans, and investigations.

An important component of collaboration is the research commissions that HERO carries out for various internal and external actors. For example, HERO has been commissioned to analyse how outcomes and examinations were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Analyses of completion rates have also been conducted for, on the one hand, subject teacher education programmes and, on the other, preschool teacher and primary school teacher education programmes.

With regard to external commissions, HERO has extensive experience collaborating with agencies such as the Swedish Higher Education Authority, the Swedish Council for Higher Education, the Swedish Institute, Delmi, as well as with leadership bodies at other higher education institutions. Another form of collaboration is participation in ongoing debates and the initiation of new debates. Here, too, there is substantial experience within HERO’s research network.

Collaboration takes place at three levels: local collaboration, national collaboration, and international collaboration. More information on each level is provided under separate tabs below.

Below is a list of the collaborative projects that HERO is and has been involved in: