Preliminary Material / Jelena Branković , Manja Klemenčić , Predrag Lažetić and Pavel Zgaga -- Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education: An Introduction / Pavel Zgaga , Jelena Branković , Manja Klemenčić and Predrag Lažetić -- Coarsely Ground / Mitchell Young -- Knowledge Society/Economy and Managerial Changes: New Challenges for Portuguese Academics / Rui Santiago , Teresa Carvalho and Andreia Ferreira -- Croatian Academics and University Civic Mission Integration: Possibilities and Constraints / Bojana Ćulum -- Crossing the Borders / Michele Rostan and Flavio A. Ceravolo -- A Career Outside the Academy? Doctorate Holders in the Finnish Professional Labour Market / Arja Haapakorpi -- Early Career Researchers Training: The Construction and Maintenance of Academic Prestige in Changing Environments / Emilia Primeri and Emanuela Reale -- Participation as a Form of Socialisation How a Research Team Can Support Phd Students in Their Academic Path / Viviana Meschitti and Antonella Carassa -- Strategic Actor-Hood and Internal Transformation / Rómulo Pinheiro and Bjørn Stensaker -- The Permanent Liminality Transition and Liminal Change in the Italian University / Massimiliano Vaira -- Between Western Ideals and Post-Conflict Reconstruction / Klemen Miklavič and Janja Komljenovič -- Mapping Portuguese Institutional Policies on Access Against the European Standards and Guidelines / Orlanda Tavares , Sónia Cardoso and Cristina Sin.

The volume offers state-of-the art contributions in the intersection of academic profession, research training and institutional governance. They reflect the profound interest of contemporary researchers in the questions of how the contemporary higher education reforms across Europe affect university governance and especially the roles and functions of academics. The volume includes several contributions from the peripheral and developing higher education systems of Central and South-East Europe; hence, attempting to rebalance the European profile of higher education research and at the same time contribute to the most salient debates in the field. This book confirms, once again, that the higher education research landscape is a diverse and rich one. At the same time, these diverse cases have at least one commonality—the fact that even though they are located in different higher education systems, they address issues that, albeit as a rule context-specific, can be found in all parts of Europe and beyond. Certainly, the local responses to the hereby addressed global challenges represent a mere snapshot of a broader landscape the European higher education dynamics is.

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