CHER - Board of Governors

Chair
	Hugo Horta Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
General Secretary
	Maria João Rosa Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies Matosinhos, Portugal
Members
	Barbara Sporn WU Vienna University of Econonics and Business Vienna, Austria
	Georg Krücken INCHER, University of Kassel Germany
	Justin Powell University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
	Taru Siekkinen Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland
	Terhi Nokkala Finnish Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä Finland
	Wenqin Shen Peking University, Graduate School of Education Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Chairpersons

1988 to 1990 and 1992 to 1998 Ulrich Teichler (Germany)
1990 to 1991 Guy Neave (UK, France)
1991 to 1992 Jean-Claude Eicher (France)
1998 to 2001 Oliver Fulton (United Kingdom)
2001 to 2006 Alberto Amaral (Portugal)
2006 to 2013 Christine Musselin (France)
2013 to 2015 Patrick Clancy (Ireland)
2015 to 2017 Jussi Välimaa (Finland)
2017 to 2021 Gaële Goastellec (Switzerland)
2021 – … Hugo Horta (The University of Hong Kong)

Secretaries

1988 to 1992 Frans van Vught (The Netherlands)
1992 to 1999 Peter Maassen (The Netherlands)
1999 to 2005 Jürgen Enders (Germany, The Netherlands)
2006 to 2013 Barbara M. Kehm (Germany)
2013 to 2022 Pedro N. Teixeira (Portugal)
2022 – … Maria João Rosa (Portugal)

News & Announcements

HERA 2025 Conference

CHER and its Chaiperson Hugo Horta, from The University of Hong Kong, would like to call your attention to the HERA 2025 conference that will take place on the...

11-12-2024

Open Call for Papers for the journal Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (ZFHE)

There is an open Call for Papers for the journal Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (ZFHE), under the topic "New Models of the university: innovative structures, adaptive responses...

10-12-2024

Open position for Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Agder, Norway

The University of Agder, in Norway, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join for a full-time, three-year position, starting in spring 2025. This role is...

10-12-2024

UNICOMM Online Symposium on Institutional Support of Student Engagement

We are excited to invite you to the UNICOMM Online Symposium on Institutional Support of Student Engagement, a dynamic event bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students...

26-11-2024

Call for papers panel on "Comparing Higher Education Policy in Asia: Politics, Actors, and Processes" at ICPP 2025 in Chiang Mai

Together with his colleague Meng-Hsuan Chou from NTU Singapore, our CHER member Jens Jungblut, from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of...

26-11-2024

Publication of the Special Issue from the CHER 2023 Conference in the European Journal of Higher Education

It is a pleasure to share with you the news that the Special Issue from the CHER 2023 Conference has been published in the European Journal of Higher Education. This...

07-11-2024

CHER 37th Annual Conference

04-10-2024

The CHER 37th Annual Conference will take place in Poznan, Poland, from 3 to 5 September 2025. More information will be available soon.

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