Network for Higher Education and Innovation

The Network for Higher Education and Innovation Research (HEINE) was established in 2009 to bolster research in science and innovation, higher education and economics of education at the University of Helsinki. The objective of the network was to produce research-based knowledge that could be utilised in areas such as lifelong learning and societal interaction, and to add value to the university by starting new interdisciplinary research projects. The goal was to establish a profile as a national agent that unified the fields of higher education and innovation research, as well as to evolve into an internationally recognised expert and research community by the year 2020.

The core of the network comprised four units and research areas:
- Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER)
- Higher Education Governance and Management (HEGOM)
- Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology Studies (HIST)
- Centre for Research and Development of Higher Education (YTY)

Although the Network’s activity was both extensive and productive, the network has not added value as much as had been expected and multidisciplinary projects were not established to the extent anticipated. Therefore the HEINE network is to be disestablished on 31.12.2012 (University of Helsinki Rector’s decision 175/2012). The research areas involved in the network will continue their operations and co-operation within their own disciplinary areas.

The network’s administration and HEGOM will move to new premises in the Faculty of Social Sciences on 10.10.2012. The new address will be Unioninkatu 37 (P.O. Box 54). Telephone numbers will remain the same.

Further information: Professor Timo Aarrevaara (HEGOM), 050 415 5402, timo.aarrevaara@helsinki.fi

The Helsinki Center of Economic Research organizes a small scale summer seminar on economics of education. The meeting will take place at Hanasaari Cultural Center just outside Helsinki. The meeting will start at lunchtime on Wednesday August 15 and last until afternoon of Thursday August 16.

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together researchers interested in economics of education to exchange ideas and promote co-operation. In particular, the organizers are hoping that the meeting helps to spread knowledge on data available for empirical research.

The program contains both invited and contributed papers. Invited speakers include Hessel Oosterbeek from University of Amsterdam, Mikael Lindahl from Uppsala University and Olmo Silva from LSE. We expect to have 10 – 12 presentations and plan to reserve 45 minutes for each paper. In the evening of August 15 a dinner will be organized at Hanasaari. Sauna and swimming pool (or the sea) are also available.

The organizers will cover the costs of accommodation and conference meals. Due to a limited budget, we can only commit to cover the travel costs for the invited speakers.

Submissions of papers for the meeting should be sent by May 25 to Kristian Koerselman (koerselman@economistatwork.com). The organizers will evaluate the papers and produce a list of papers approved for the program by June 1.

Welcome
Roope Uusitalo
Tuomas Pekkarinen
Kristian Koerselman

Lecture on 21.3. at 10-12, Siltavuorenpenger 10, seminar room 225

• Harry Collins:  “Interactional expertise: expert’s language and expert’s practice”

Lecture is open to all.

Seminar on 21.3. at 13-17, Siltavuorenpenger 10, seminar room 225

• Jonna Kangasoja: “Studing expertise as a historical and distributed phenomena: A friendly critique of Collins’s notion of interactional expertise”
• Paula Saikkonen: “Risk management as knowledge practice in the context of polluted soil”
• Auli Toom, Liisa Ilomäki, Minna Lakkala, Hanni Muukkonen: “Rethinking working life competencies – Defining the collaborative working practices”
• Pia  Vuolanto: “Boundary-work between practical and scientific knowledge: The textual construction of Finnish nursing science in the mid-1990s”

Harry Collins comments on presentations.

Collins is particularly interested in expertise and expert knowledge. What is expertise and how it is formed and what it is in practice?  He is best known as an expert of tacit knowledge.
Further introduction »»

Background material for the lecture:
Collins, Harry, 2011. `Language and Practice’ Social Studies of Science, 41, 2, 271-300.
Collins Harry and Evans Robert, (2007) Rethinking Expertise, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, Harry, (2010), Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Further information:
Ilkka Arminen
ilkka.arminen(a)helsinki.fi
+358 50 4156835

The professionalization of the university administration and the attractiveness of the profession can be achieved by developing the staffs expertise, as well as greater ability to operate in an international environment. As a co-operation between University of  Helsinki and the Academy of Finland  started the Higher Education Organization and Management Courses has started as personal training in which the participants increase their knowledge of higher education research, familiarize themselves with the university sector to broader management issues and the use of this information in practice.

The study program offers for the staff of the University of Helsinki and the Academy of Finland staff in an open public lecture on 26th Jan. 2012 at 13.15 to 14.45, a place at the University Main Building (Fabianinkatu 33), auditorio XII.

Barbara Kehm: What Is University Governance and Does It Matter?
Ulrich Teichler: Future Challenges Facing Europe?s Higher Education Systems in the 21st Century

More information: Timo Aarrevaara, 191 24967

HEINE will arrange a seminar LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE on 6th and 7th October 2011. Seminar will include two open lectures:

Curtis Lebaron: Face-to-Face Leadership: A Multimodal Consideration of Bodies at Work.
Thu 6.10. at 10-12, Porthania, lecture room P673

Mie Femø Nielsen: Constructing Leadership in Business Meeting
Fri 7.10 at 10-12, Main building, lecture room 12

For further information please contact researcher Aku Kallio <aku.kallio@helsinki.fi>

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