Network: 22. Research in Higher Education
22 SES 01 A, (Students) Recruitment and Aspiration
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Anna-Lena Rose
- Assembling Employability: Ethnography of Graduate Recruitment Fairs
- Elite Closure in University-Corporate Partnerships to Recruit University Graduates
- Professional Aspirations during the PhD : a Choice Shaped by Doctoral Experience and Expectations
- Crafting More Effective Teacher Recruitment Strategies: Experimental Evidence on College Student Preferences for Job Traits
Linda Maria Laaksonen Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret
Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret Gerbrand Tholen
Thomas Licart Jean-François Giret Julien Berthaud
Elizabeth Balch-Crystal
22 SES 01 B, Student Well -being and Belonging
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Patrick Baughan
- Generic Skills and Sense of Belonging among Finnish Final-Stage Undergraduate Students
- Faculty–Student Relationships and Student Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Sense of Belonging
- Students’ Perceptions of Agency Supportive Resources in University Course Contexts
Kaisa Silvennoinen Jani Ursin Heidi Hyytinen Miika Marttunen
Şakir Çınkır Tuğba Keler Elif Sönmez
Maarit Arvaja Päivikki Jääskelä
22 SES 01 C, Globalisation at Risk
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Emanuel Tamir
- Navigating the Geopolitical Turn: Materiality, Imagination, and Practice of International Scholars in Chinese Universities
- How is Latin America Represented in Global Higher Education?
Jiexiu Chen
Felipe Sánchez Ben Hart Casper Juul
22 SES 01 D, Racialised Inequality, Racism and Epistemic Justice
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 13:30-15:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Graca Fernandes
- Re-evaluating What We Know about What Works in Closing Awarding Gaps for Racially Minoritised Students in English Universities
- Ethnic Inequalities in Dropout Intentions in Higher Education and the Role of Sense of Belonging
- Epistemic Injustice in the Lived Experiences of Refugee Students in Australia
Dominik Jackson-Cole Ian S. Baker Sacha Robinson
Panayota Cotzaridis Orhan Agirdag Jozefien De Leersnyder Els Consuegra
Mervi Kaukko Kristin Reimer Luke Macaulay Jane Wilkinson
22 SES 02 A, Succeeding in higher education
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Zsofia Julia Toszegi
- First-year Transitions and Belonging in Distance Education: A Sociomaterial and Temporal Analysis
- The Joint Development of Peer Networks, Sense of Belonging, and Academic Self-efficacy among International Students in Higher Education
- Patterns of Student Engagement Across Turkish Universities Established After 2000s: A Multiple Case Study
Stefanie Habermann Michael Hast Caroline Trautwein
Pieter van Lamoen Marieke Meeuwisse Annemarie Hiemstra Jasperina Brouwer
Şahabettin Akşab Serap Emil
22 SES 02 C, Well-being and Academics' Careers
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Hanna Toivonen
22 SES 02 B, Curricul and Student Study
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Johanna Annala
- Who Owns the Map? Uprooting the University and Letting the Curriculum Go Wild
- Towards Accomplishing Change in Higher Education Through the Co-creation and Enactment of Curriculum and Education Frameworks
- Teacher and Student Experiences of Student Workload: Design and Practice
- Thinking about Theory in Postgraduate Education: Perspectives from Students and Educators
Jack Tsao
Alison Farrell Lisa O'Regan Tazila Ramputh Ceridwen Coulby Íde O'Sullivan Barry Ryan
Jarkko Impola
Louise Kay Jessica Bradley David Hyatt
22 SES 02 D, Belonging, Class and First-Generation Students
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 15:30-17:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Paula Silvén
- Aspirational Capital and Symbolic Mobility in First-generation University Students
- Collective Practices of Belonging: Transitions Into and Through Higher Education Among Under-represented Students
Andrea Flanagan-Bórquez Gabriel Soriano-Soriano
Flora Petrik Anna-Maija Niemi
22 SES 03 C, AI in HE: challenges and risks
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Súsanna Margrét Gestsdóttir
- Higher Education Teachers’ Job Resources, Challenges, and Hindrances Related to Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Transformational Leadership and Teachers’ AI Competence Self-Efficacy in Chinese Higher Education: The Mediating Roles of Organisational Support and Teacher Collaboration
- Reconceptualization of TPACK based on GenAI through Iranian University Faculty Members' Lived Experiences: A Phenomenological Study
Jere Riekkinen Heidi Salmento Mari Murtonen
Ni Zhang Xiangyuan Feng Wenbing Yan
Azimehsadat Khakbaz
22 SES 03 B, Teaching and Learning Approaches and Innovations
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Anne Graham Cagney
- Teacher–Student Mutual Reactivity in University Classroom Interaction: Evidence from Pre-service Teacher Education
- Simulating Success: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Clinical Simulations as Situated Knowledge Production in Communication Disorders Training and Education
- Active Learning in Engineering Higher Education: Bridging Conceptual Perspectives and Student Learning Processes
Michaela Lukešová
Erez Miller Leah R. Paltiel-Gedalyovich Maayan Pereg
Susanna Hartikainen
22 SES 03 A, Graduates Outcomes
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Jo Bjørkli Helgetun
- Penalties and Compensation for Skill Mismatch: An Investigation into the Impact on Employment Quality Among Engineering Graduates in China
- Explaining Graduate Economic Outcomes in a Congested Labour Market: The case of ISEG´s Graduates
- Graduate Employability in Undergraduate Vocational Education: Insights from the Graduate Capital Model
- Fields of Study and Dual Returns: Market and Institutional Pathways for Rural Higher Education Students in China
Wenqi Qiu Liping Ma Suhong Yang Qinxue Feng Changjun Yue Ning Tang
Graca Fernandes
Jia Li Ewan Wright
Yuqi Zhang
22 SES 03 D, Migration, Refugees and Minority in Higher Education
Tuesday, 2026-08-18, 17:15-18:45, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Valeriia Smirnova
- Migrant Students’ Transitions from Vocational and Higher Education to (Un/Under) Employment in Europe: A Meta-Synthesis of Constraints, Opportunities and Conditions
- From Camp to Campus: English-Taught Higher Education Programmes and the Integration of Highly Educated Refugees and Newcomers in Flanders
Jawaria Khan Katarzyna Karkkainen Taina Saarinen Golaleh Makrooni Sonya Sahradyan
Flore Geukens Hakan Dursun Tobias Frenssen Melanie Hall Katrien Mertens
22 SES 05 B, Student Agency and Motivation
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 10:30-12:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Katja Saxer
- Comparing Teachers' And Students' Perspectives of Student Engagement in Higher Education: Between Performativity And Invisibility
- Self-regulated Coping with Critical First-year Transition Requirements in Distance Education: A Qualitative Focus-group Study
- Promoting Student Agency in Higher Education: Teachers’ Perspectives on Roles and Good Practices
Paulo Padilla-Petry Sara Pérez-Hernando Julio Rodríguez-Rodríguez Cristina Vidal-Martí
Stefanie Habermann Michael Hast Caroline Trautwein
Siru Myllykoski-Laine Päivikki Jääskelä Maarit Arvaja
22 SES 05 A, Transnational Employability
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 10:30-12:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Lise Moawad
- Exploring the Transition of Syrian Forcibly Displaced Migrants from Higher Education to Work
- From ‘Overseas Returnees’ (Haigui) to ‘Returning Overseas’ (Guihai): Chinese Overseas-educated Graduate Returnees’ Re-migration Decisions
- Comparative Employability of Transnational and Overseas Graduates--A lens from Chinese Master Graduates
Okan Kurt Yasar Kondakci
Zhen Li Shuman Xi
Keyu Zhai Ti Shi
22 SES 05 C, Teaching in HE: agency and attitudes
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 10:30-12:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Alina Boutiuc-Kaiser
- Relational Dimensions of Teacher Agency in University Teaching: Purposes for Exercising Agency
- University Teachers’ Concepts About Pedagogical Innovation and Students as Partners Roles
- ‘It’s a Different World’: Nurturing Lecturer Self-efficacy Beliefs During Academic Induction Through Targeted Support and a Psychologically Safe Workplace.
- Exploring Teaching Academics’ Attitudes, Intentions, and Future Actions in the Context of GenAI and Educational Change
Max Kusters Elizabeth Rushton Roeland Van der Rijst Wilfried Admiraal
Orsolya Kálmán Judit Saád Borbála Kozma
Rachel Minett Muhamet Halilaj
Lynn Sheridan Elisabeth Duursma Isabelle Wentworth Rebekkah Middleton Sasha Nikolic
22 SES 05 D, Campus as Space and Place
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 10:30-12:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Anne Graham Cagney
- What the Campus Does: Projection, Mobility, and Interrelationality in the University Space
- It Feels like there is this invisible boundary: Social Hierarchies and Stilted Integration in the University Space
- Dare to Think Divers: An engaged ethnography on community within higher education
- ”Otherwise I would have dropped out” The Role of Higher Education in Peripheral Regions
Richard Budd
Richard Budd Aunam Quyoum
Yasmine Kaied Hanne Vandenbussche Elisabeth De Schauwer Kautar Oulad El Haj
Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
22 SES 05.5 A, General Poster Session
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 12:15-13:15, Room: Park Hall | Tampere Hall | 1 Fl., Chair:
- Supporting Authenticity and Engagement in Practice Education for Autistic Students: Views from the Speech and Language Therapy Student and Practice Educator.
- Study Hard, Work Hard! Board Game for Career Development Learning in Higher Education
- Creating Inclusive Digital Learning Spaces: Flexible Continuing Education for Child and Youth Professionals
- Factors Influencing the Process of Construction of a University Student Identity and Study Success among First-generation University Students
- How Does Interdisciplinary Student Collaboration Unfold in Team-Based Projects: A Qualitative Multiple-Case Study
Hazel Richards Tom Hopkins
Zsófia Kocsis
Svenja Hammer
Taťána Škanderová
Luyao Huang Roeland van der Rijst Indira Day Wilfried Admiraal
22 SES 06 C, AI and Pedagogy
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Seda Aydan
- Exploring Value Judgements in Grading: Will Teachers Mark Down Student Work Assisted by GenAI, and Should They?
- Between Shortcut and Insight: Generative AI as a Dialogic Partner in Higher Education Teaching
- A Framework for Teaching and Learning Responsible Use of Large Language Model-based AI
- Correlation of Knowledge, Uses and Stances of University teachers on GenAI
Jiahui Jess Luo Phillip Dawson
Alex Mäkiharju Charlotta Hilli
Heli Helanummi-Cole
Cristina Mercader Laia Alguacil-Mir
22 SES 06 B, Policies and Reforms in HE
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Olena Brintseva
- The Paradox of Quantitative Expansion and Quality in Turkish Higher Education: A Systematic Review of Legislative Reforms
- Serving Society: Universities and Their Third Mission
- The Evolution of Institutional Change, ICT Development Policies, and Global Influences: The Case of Higher Education in the Western Balkans
Şahabettin Akşab
Irena Zemaitaityte Jolanta Pivoriene Justina Garbauskaitė-Jakimovska
Antigona Uka
22 SES 06 A, Professional and Academic Identity
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Yunru Liu
- Tensions in Professional Identity Development: From Education to Practice, a Comparative Study of Three Professional Educations
- Negotiation of Academic Identity in the Context of International Research Collaboration
- Working at the Edges of the University: Rethinking Academic Contribution, Design and Identity
- Rhythms of Applying Competitive Research Funding: Exploring Resonance in Academic Work
Anne Louise Kronborg Nanna Ruengkratok Lang Birgitte Lund Nielsen
Pelin Yuce Yasar Kondakci Anil Ersoz Sevgi Kaya-Kasikci Merve Zayim-Kurtay
Patrick Baughan
Reetta Muhonen Henna Juusola Minna Kokko Anu Nuutinen Maria Pietilä
22 SES 06 D, Diversity and Inclusion throughout Academia
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 13:30-15:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Edith Hooge
- Pathways in Early Childhood Education and Care
- Academics’ Learning through Engaging in Practice-Near Research in Sweden
David Gudmundur Kristinsson Berglind Magnusdottir
Anette Olin Almqvist Veronica Sülau Jaana Nehez
22 SES 06 E, Inclusion in Higher Education
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 13:30-15:00, Room: B4114 | Pinni B | 4 Fl., Chair: Achyut Gautam
- Grateful But Lonely: Older Students' Motivations And Challenges In An Online University
- Broadly Accessible, Locally Important: (Re)Conceptualising Hybrid Education in Regional Higher Education Institutions
- Inclusion in Higher Education Through Design of Alternative Student Pathways
- From Accommodation to Engagement: SDT-Informed Pedagogy for Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education
José Israel Reyes Julio Meneses Efrem Melián Iolanda García Ariadna Angulo-Brunet
Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen
Louise Bøttcher Simon Nørby
Hanna Liisa Hakala Auli Toom Kirsi Pyhältö Viivi Virtanen
22 SES 07 C, The character of higher education
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Hanna Toivonen
- Social Stratification in Higher Education Choice: Evidence from Slovenia
- Class, Gender and Ambition: Working-Class Girls’ Reflexive Pathways into and out of Elite Higher Education in England
- On the Path to Becoming a University: How Far Have New Higher Education Institutions Come in the Past Decade?
David Janet Gasper Cankar Valentin Bucik
Katherine Davey
Kat Emms Andrea Laczik
22 SES 07 A, Competencies in Higher Education: from Strategy to Pedagogy
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Jani Ursin
- Competencies in Higher Education: from Strategy to Pedagogy
- Skill University in India. The Shift of the Teachers’ Pedagogical Orientations
- Future-Proofing Higher Education through DBE (Design Based Education) led Business Labs at a Finnish Applied Sciences University
- What Is Challenging? Students’ Reflection in and on Research-Based Learning in Higher Education
- Continuing and Higher Education Competency Frameworks in Switzerland – from Strategy to Practice?
Markus Weil Jani Ursin
Markus Weil Virve Kallioniemi-Chambers
Markus Weil Sruti Narra
Markus Weil Nicole Ackermann Eva Weingartner
Markus Weil
22 SES 07 B, AI Case Studies
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Wiktoria Szawiel
- Research on the Mechanisms of Artificial Intelligence in Promoting High-Order Thinking Development from a Sociotechnical Perspective
- Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Student Engagement Methods in Latvia within Business Sciences and STEM study programs.
- Prompt Literacy in Higher Education: An Empirical Study of Student Prompting Techniques and Types
Renjie Zhang
Polina Stolca
Lisa Matuschek Stefanie Zarnow
22 SES 07 D, Disadvantages and Social Justice
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 15:30-17:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Patrick Baughan
- Preserving Privileges and Shattering Glass Ceilings. Explaining the Global Expansion of Access to Higher Education.
- Changing Inequality of China’s Higher Education Subjects: A Comparison between Generations
- The Role of Higher Education in Cultivating the Potentials of Disadvantaged Students to Flourish
- Social Justice from the Lens of University Students in the United States of America: The Capabilities Approach
Fabian Besche-Truthe
Yuqi Zhang
Sevgi Kaya-Kasikci Yaşar Kondakci Cennet Engin
Burcu Erdemir
22 SES 08 B, Student Wellbeing, Work and Belonging
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Virve Pekkarinen
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Diversity and Precarity in Doctoral Education in Sweden
- How Learning Processes and Environments Promote Mental Wellbeing in Higher Education: The Student Perspective
- The Meanings of Work: Low-Income Students’ Sensemaking of Work and Term-time Employment
- University Belonging by Generational Status: From Access to Affiliation in Higher Education in Germany
Maja Lundqvist Angelica Simonsson Kajsa Widegren Fredrik Löfström Bondestam Johanna Mellén
Ariadna Martínez-García Susana Valverde-Montesino
Adi Sapir Roni Strier
Leonie Starke Sercan Erer Frederick de Moll
22 SES 08 A, Digital Learning
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Alan Huang
- The Untold Side of Digital Learning: Behind-the-Scenes Activity in Hybrid Education
- Learning-Supportive Model: A Digital and Experiential Pedagogical Model in Higher Education
- Visualizing Metacognitive Knowledge of Information Media: Enhancing Report Writing Practices in Higher Education
Irit Levy-Feldman Adi Sharabi
Nóra Barnucz Dalma Lilla Dominek
Wakio Oyanagi Yasushi Gotoh
22 SES 08 C JS, Joint Paper Session - NW 22 and NW 26
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Maria Kristina Börebäck
- Teacher Authority as Everyday Academic Leadership: A Comparative Study of Student Perspectives in Polish and Ukrainian Higher Education
- Trust and Responsibility in the Management of Educational Institutions: Dimensions of Cooperative Leadership
- How Can We Develop Our Capacity to Shared Leadership in the VET-sector? An Action Learning Project
Anna Szuchalska
Andreas Schreier
Anja Overgaard Thomassen Soeren Frimann Kristian Gylling Olesen
22 SES 08 D, Institutional Transformation
Wednesday, 2026-08-19, 17:15-18:45, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Stefanie Kessler
- Between Theory and Practice: the Untapped Role of Innovation Models in Higher Education.
- Ukrainian Universities in Wartime: Competitiveness and Patterns of Institutional Resilience
- Mapping Organizational Actorhood and Strategic Positioning in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Review
Renée Schrauwen Andrea Prince van leeuwen Nynke Bos
Olena Brintseva
Murat Özdemir Ahmet Aypay
22 SES 10 A, Rethinking Educational Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Pathways and Possibilities
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 10:30-12:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Vesna Holubek
- Rethinking Educational Knowledge: Interdisciplinary Pathways and Possibilities
Johanna Annala Juliene Madureira Ferreira Vesna Holubek Alexandra Urakova
22 SES 10 C, AI and Digitalisation in HE
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 10:30-12:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Maria Kristina Börebäck
- Disrupted Distinction, Weakened Signals: Generative AI and the Changing Meaning of Academic Performance
- Concerns of Higher Education Managers Regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence in University Education
- Machine Learning Models for Academic Failure Risk: An Italian Study with Fairness Considerations
Emanuel Tamir Erna Nairz-Wirth
Aleix Barrera-Corominas Micaela de-Armas-Bertossi Abraham Bernárdez-Gómez
Fiammetta Noccioli Patrizia Falzetti
22 SES 10 B, Student Experience in HE
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 10:30-12:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Graca Fernandes
- The Impact of First-year Higher Education Students’ Critical Thinking Skills and Well-Being on Academic Achievement
- I Would Always Attend If I’m Getting Points’: A Value-Perspective Study of University Lecture Attendance
- Educational Assessment and the Construction of ‘Ability’
Lotta Väänänen Jani Ursin Katri Kleemola Heidi Hyytinen
Åsa Mickwitz Carolina Björkas Sofia Holmqvist-Jämsén Frida Gyllenberg Karolina Söderlund
Juuso Henrik Nieminen Margaret Bearman
22 SES 10 D, Competition in HE
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 10:30-12:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Anna-Lena Rose
- “To Survive, You Must Tell Stories.” Comparing Success Narratives of Local University Alliances and Networks in European Capital Cities
- Greening Hungary’s Universities: What Impact Can Academic Libraries Have on Sustainability Rankings?
- Graduates and Their Tentative Jobs: Balances of the Supply of and Demand for Qualified Workers on the European Labour Markets
- University Rectors as Knots Between the Ministry and Academic Community: Calibrating the Academic Performance in Finnish Universities
Lise Moawad Josepha Gollanek
Maria Erika Soos
Alexander Chvorostov
Paula Silvén
22 SES 10 E, Academics, Research and Internationalisation
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 10:30-12:00, Room: B4114 | Pinni B | 4 Fl., Chair: Petr Novotny
- Keeping Internationalisation Going: Invisible Work in Academics’ Mobility Narratives
- Voices at the Margin: Academic Agency and the Hidden Curriculum in Internationalized Higher Education
- Inclusiveness and Leadership in International Research Networks: Insights from COST Actions
Elena Ungureanu Daniela Popa
Hsiao-Chun Lin Iñigo Flores Ituarte
Anil Ersoz
22 SES 10.5 A, Network Meeting - NW 22. Research in Higher Education
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 12:15-13:15, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Mariana Gaio Alves
- Network Meeting - NW 22. Research in Higher Education
Mariana Gaio Alves
22 SES 11 B, Student Mobility
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Svenja Bedenlier
- Understanding the Mobility Gap in European Higher Education: Institutional Factors Shaping Inclusive International Student Mobility
- Online as Second Best - Conceptions of International Student Mobility in Internationalization Strategies of German Higher Education Institutions
- Broken Desire: Chinese Students’ Abandonment of Overseas Study Amidst the Changing Global Landscape and Geopolitical Tensions
- Implementing Student Mobility through Policy Instruments: Institutional Adjustments and Inequalities
Georgina Kasza Luca Alexa Erdei
Svenja Bedenlier Yasar Kondakci Tanja Tillmanns
Jiexiu Chen
Lucy Bell Joël Person
22 SES 11 A, Hybridity Through Transitions - How Nordic higher education Institutions are Adapting to Different Crises and Reforms
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Marc Perkins
- Hybridity Through Transitions - How Nordic higher education Institutions are Adapting to Different Crises and Reforms
Luiz Alonso de Andrade Stefan Lundborg Marc Perkins Romulo Pinheiro Jan-Erik Johanson Tomi Rajala
22 SES 11 C, Internationalization in Different Contexts
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 13:30-15:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Piety Runhaar
- ‘Educational Sciences’ Going International: International Academic Engagement among French Education Researchers
- Valuing National Disciplinary Language in Internationalised Higher Education: Student Perspectives across Disciplinary Ecologies
- Stakeholders’ Perspectives and Organisational Practices of National and International Cooperation in Teacher Education within Higher Education: Insights from Lithuania and Finland
- Internationalising Doctoral Education: International Doctoral Students’ Experiences of Academic Mobility and Inclusion in Germany
Sébastien-Akira Alix Muriel Epstein Arnaud Dubois Magali Boutrais
Marcus Warnby Susanna Karlsson Hans Malmström
Rūta Petkutė
Alina Boutiuc-Kaiser
22 SES 11 D, Research & Internationalization
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 13:30-15:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Ying Yang
- Educational Leadership between Governance and Practice: Mandates without Maps
- Navigating Barriers: Challenges for Change Management and Leadership in Higher Education
Kristin Ewins Eva Svedmark Anna Hultgren
Trevor McSharry
22 SES 11 E, Resistance in Academia
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 13:30-15:00, Room: B4114 | Pinni B | 4 Fl., Chair: Petr Novotny
- Avant-garde Pedagogies and Academic Freedom: On the Possibility of Experimentation, Inutility and Research Communities in Modernist Art Schools
- Towards the ‘post Entrepreneurial University’? Diverse Voices and Critical Insights from the Academic Profession of East Asian Flagship Universities
- Academic Resistance and the Suppression of Resistance as Reported by Democracy Activists at Finnish Universities
Wiktoria Szawiel
Hei-hang Hayes Tang
Tuomas Tervasmäki Tuukka Tomperi Paula Silvén Mikko Poutanen Hanna Kuusela
22 SES 12 C, Trends in Internationalization
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Petr Novotny
- Crises in Global Higher Education and Adaptive Reflexivity: Comparing Methodological Dilemmas in Conflict-Ridden Myanmar and Ukraine
- Brand Architecture in Higher Education – a Corporate Model of Brand Positioning in Times of Internationalization
- Mapping Decision Trees of Study Abroad Intentions: The Interplay Between Maternal Education, Cultural Adaptability, and Career Expectations
Anatoly Oleksiyeno Min Thein Win
Alina Turculet Narcis Sfintes
Yun-shiuan Chen Hsiu-Wen Huang
22 SES 12 B, International Students, Campuses & Curriculum
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Selin S. Oeksuez
- Considering International Higher Education in China: An Exploratory Study of International MBA Students’ Motivations
- Cosmopolitan Promises and Stratified Realities: Exploring Transnational Experiences of Indian Students in Europe.
- Quality Assurance Under Regulatory Pluralism: A Comparative Study of UK International Branch Campuses
- Geographies of Pedagogies in International Higher Education
Ying Yang Nannan Lu
Siddhi Singh
Chanjuan Peng Yaobin Tong
Lene Møller Madsen Hanne Kirstine Adriansen
22 SES 12 A, On the Making and Re-making of Doctoral Education in Educational Sciences. Histories over Time and Place. Part 1
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Sverker Lindblad
- On the Making and Re-making of Doctoral Education in Educational Sciences. Histories over Time and Place. Part 1
- Doctoral Studies: Paradigms and the Learning to “See” Education
- Doctoral Education in Educational Sciences between Educationalisation, Traditionalisation and Marketisation
- Doctoral Education, Academic Cultures and Global Policy. SIDA Funded Partnership in Educational Sciences in Ethiopia
Sverker Lindblad Radhika Gorur
Sverker Lindblad Thomas Popkewitz
Sverker Lindblad Edwin Keiner
Sverker Lindblad Alebachew Kemisso Haybano Aimee Haley Gun-Britt Wärvik
22 SES 12 D, Research and Academic Literacy
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Semiha Bekir
- Post-Disaster Challenges to Continuing Academic Work: The Supportive Role of Academic Literacy
- From Metrics to Meaning: A Holistic Monitoring Framework for Non-Competitive Research Funding
- Research Trends in Academic Literacy: A Bibliometric Analysis
Birol Bulut Songül Karabatak Meltem Yurtçu Ayşenur Kuloğlu Batuhan Selvi
Anneleen Mortier Katia Levecque Ronan Van Rossem
Muhammed Kürşat Öksüzoğlu İrem Elçi Öksüzoğlu Birol Bulut Meltem Yurtçu
22 SES 12 E, Teaching and Teacher Development
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 15:30-17:00, Room: B4114 | Pinni B | 4 Fl., Chair: Johanna Annala
- Teaching Processes and Anxiety in Higher Education Teaching: How Are They Related?
- The Subjective Experience of Students’ Teaching Evaluations by Lecturers in Neoliberal Academia
- Developing as a University Teacher: The Role of Emotions and Reflection
- Advancing Diversity in Higher Education Teaching: Review-Based Best Practices for Universal Design for Learning
Liisa Postareff Ilmari Puhakka Anna Parpala Merly Kosenkranius
Galia Ankori Tamar Hager Tamar Barkay
Virve Pekkarinen
Claudia Stern Marie-Luise Schütt Vanessa-Patricia Boldt Franziska Carl
22 SES 13 D, Well Being and Mental Health
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Piety Runhaar
- Mental Health Literacy in Higher Education: Instructors’ Perception of their Contribution to Pre-service Educators’ and Social Workers’ Attitudes towards Mental Health
- Expectations vs. Reality: A Qualitative Study on the Origins and Coping Strategies of Doctoral Psychological Distress
Paulo Padilla-Petry Julio Rodríguez-Rodríguez Sara Pérez-Hernando Gemma Crous
Jie Fang Huabing Liu Xingyu Cai
22 SES 13 A, On the Making and Re-making of Doctoral Education in Educational Sciences. Histories over Time and Place. Part 2.
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Sverker Lindblad
- On the Making and Re-making of Doctoral Education in Educational Sciences. Histories over Time and Place. Part 2.
- Bridging General Education and Practice-Oriented Teacher Training by Research: The Emergence of Doctoral Programs and Their Implications
- 2. Reconfiguring epistemic cultures in Swedish Educational Sciences, 1950 to 2024
- Doctoral Education in Educational Sciences in Italy
Britt-Marie Apelgren Sverker Lindblad Kirsi Pyhältö
Britt-Marie Apelgren Kirsten Sivesind Turid Løyte Harboe
Britt-Marie Apelgren Sverker Lindblad Gun-Britt Wärvik
Britt-Marie Apelgren Edwin Keiner Barbara Gross
22 SES 13 C, AI impacts on learning
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Roeland van der Rijst
- Agency in Practice: How Chinese International Students Make Judgements About Generative AI Use in Academic Tasks
- Lost in Translation? The Impact of AI Translation Tools on International Postgraduate Learning in English-Medium Instruction
- Perceived Pedagogical and Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Teacher Education: Teachers’ and Students’ Perspectives from Slovenia
Zhixi Li
Sadia Ali
Marta Licardo
22 SES 13 E, Researchers Development
Thursday, 2026-08-20, 17:15-18:45, Room: B4114 | Pinni B | 4 Fl., Chair: Jarkko Impola
- From Tangible Space to Intangible Fortune: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Shared Office Space in the Hidden Curriculum of Doctoral Education
- What Conditions Student Agency During Master’s Thesis Supervision?
- Abai’s Tolyq Adam (Holistic Person) as Philosophy: Ethical Formation, Knowledge Production, and Higher Education in Times of Poly-Crisis
Dayana Balgabekova Qian Jiang Samira Hasanzade Jie Gao Nur Izham Sevinj Rustamova
Lara Aref Auli Toom
Almira Tabaeva Meruyert Seidumanova Aigul Sarenova Dayana Balgabekova Aizhan Sapargalieva
22 SES 14 B, Higher Education Curriculum in the Crossroads - Contemporary Trends, Tensions and Dynamics
Friday, 2026-08-21, 09:00-10:30, Room: B1097 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Johanna Annala
- Higher Education Curriculum in the Crossroads - Contemporary Trends, Tensions and Dynamics
- Educational Purpose in Higher Education: A Fifty-Year Review of Curriculum Research
- Ubiquitous in Use, Ambiguous in Meaning: Examining Instructional Staff Conceptions of ‘Curriculum’
- The Student-centred Teaching Model: exploring current trends in higher education curriculum in Portugal
- Towards Design Principles for Transdisciplinary Learning in Higher Education
Mariana Gaio Alves Johanna Annala Majella Dempsey
Mariana Gaio Alves Johanna Annala Golaleh Makrooni Camille Kandiko Howson
Mariana Gaio Alves James Beres
Mariana Gaio Alves
Mariana Gaio Alves Nienke Nieveen Irene Visscher-Voerman Janina den Hertog Klaasjan Visscher
22 SES 14 C, Universities Interacting with External Contexts
Friday, 2026-08-21, 09:00-10:30, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Sarah Hayes
- The Six c’s of Successful Higher Education-industry Collaboration in Engineering Education
- University-Entity Relationship within the Framework of University Service-Learning Projects
- Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) as Policy and Practice: A Policy Enactment Case Study in Higher Education
Antti Vuoriainen Pauliina Rikala Ville Heilala Sami Lehesvuori Lauri Kettunen Raija Hämäläinen
Tania Ramos García Miguel Ángel Santos-Rego Gabriela Míguez Salina Nicolás Avendaño-Carballo
Lena Sjöberg Kristina Areskoug Josefsson Ulrika Lundh Snis Sandra Pennbrant
22 SES 14 A, Inclusiveness and Future of the Doctoral System (part 1)
Friday, 2026-08-21, 09:00-10:30, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Christine Teelken
- Inclusiveness and Future of the Doctoral System (part 1)
- Inclusive Excellence: Shaping the future research workforce through diversity
- Research Career Development in Africa: Career Outcomes in the Context of Swedish Development Aid
- Co-Constructing Doctoral Knowledge Across Academia and Society: Municipal Partnerships and Publicly Funded Boundary Spaces for Inclusive (Post)Academic Career Futures
- 3. Academic Uncertainty amid Higher Education Expansion and Internationalisation: International PhD Students in Germany
Christine Teelken Gregor Schäfer
Christine Teelken Keamogetse Morwe Neda Bebiroglu Andrea-Rosalinde Hofer Illa Carrillo Rodriguez
Christine Teelken Aimee Haley Alebachew Kemisso Haybano Gun-Britt Wärvik
Christine Teelken Cristina Domingues
Christine Teelken Alina Boutiuc-Kaiser
22 SES 14 D, Student Learning Challenges
Friday, 2026-08-21, 09:00-10:30, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Katja Saxer
- Developing Diversity Competence Through Hackathons in Higher Education: A Trend Study at a German University
- The development of disciplinary thinking in Higher Education Research(ers)
- Students’ Perceived Readiness for Academic Writing and Thesis Work: Programme Progression, Feedback, and Academic Literacy Development in Higher Education
- Integrating Experiential Learning in Graduate Family Studies Education
Sude Pekşen Nina Bieling Liudvika Leišytė
Felipe Sánchez Casper B. Juul Benjamin Hart
Beatrix Algurén Ann-Marie Eriksson
S. Burcu Özgülük Üçok Selin Onaylı
22 SES 14 E, Challenging Academic Work
Friday, 2026-08-21, 09:00-10:30, Room: B4114 | Pinni B | 4 Fl., Chair: Petr Novotny
- Illuminating the Affective Textures, Paradoxes and Strangeness of Academic Work Through Printed Images
- The Cost of Resilience: Professional Experience of Ukrainian University Teachers Following the Full-Scale Invasion
- Regulation of Epistemic Uncertainties in Higher Education: A Social Psychology of “Augmented” Identity Crisis among Humanities Scholars
Mark Selkrig
Olena Polovko Sergei Glotov
Philippe Gabriel Elodie Arnold-Roebroeck
22 SES 15 C, Academic Life and Well-being
Friday, 2026-08-21, 11:00-12:30, Room: B1096 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair: Piety Runhaar
- Academic Experiences of Student-Perpetrated Violence: A Comparative Study of Swedish and Australian Higher Education
- Higher Education Teacher Well-Being: An Integrative Review of Research Literature
- “You're Expected to Know These Things...” - Reflections of Tertiary Educators’ Readiness to Support Student Mental Health
Erika K. Smith
Anna Wallin Laura Pylväs Ilmari Puhakka Heta Rintala
Michelle Hsien Anna Dabrowski
22 SES 15 A, Inclusiveness and Future of the Doctoral System (part 2)
Friday, 2026-08-21, 11:00-12:30, Room: B1100 | Pinni B | 1 Fl., Chair:
- Inclusiveness and Future of the Doctoral System (part 2)
- Othering and Unequal Doctoral Career Preparation: Class, Nationality and Supervision
- Lines of Becoming: Gender, Class and the Autoethnographic Politics of the Doctoral Journey
- Relational Ecosystems in Doctoral Education: Insights from Peer Groups
Christine Teelken Neda Bebiroglu Gregor Schafer
Christine Teelken Furkan Uzan
Christine Teelken Maria Chalari
Christine Teelken Dilara Özel Samira Hasanzade Hsiao-Chiang Wang
22 SES 15 D, Challenging Students Learning
Friday, 2026-08-21, 11:00-12:30, Room: B3110 | Pinni B | 3 Fl., Chair: Jarkko Impola
- Knowledge Governance and Dynamic Capabilities for Meaningful Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Universities of Emerging Economies
- Research on the Education Model of “Integration of Specialization and Innovation” in High-Level Research Universities: Challenges and Pathways for Development
- Examining the Mediating Role of Mind Wandering in the Relationship Between Self-Control and Short Video Addiction in University Students
Rodolfo Jiménez-León Guillermo Narvaez Osorio José Juan Paz-Reyes Arturo Martínez De Escobar Fernández Wilfrido Miguel Contreras Sánchez Luis Manuel Hernandez Govea
Yue Yang
Tuğba Turgut
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