Professor Ellen Hazelkorn is Joint Managing Partner, BH Associates. She is Professor Emeritus, Technological University Dublin, and Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprh20/current).
Ellen is a member of the Quality Board for Icelandic Higher Education (2017-) and the Commission of the College of the Future (UK, 2019-). She is also a member of the Advisory Board for U-Multirank (EU),and the Advisory Group on Higher Education for Smart Specialisation (EU).
She is also International Co-Investigator, and member of the Advisory Board and Management Committee at the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), London (http://www.researchcghe.org), and Research Fellow and member of the International Advisory Committee, Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA (http://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lsoe/sites/cihe.html).
She was Policy Advisor to, and board member of, the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) – 2011-2017, and President of EAIR – the European Society for Higher Education – 2013-2016.
Ellen has almost 20 years experience as Vice President Research and Enterprise, and Founding Dean of the Graduate Research School, (2008-2014), and Vice President and Founding Dean, Faculty of Applied Arts, Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin) (1995-2008). She the founding Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), 2008-2020 (http://www.dit.ie/hepru/). Over this period, as a member of the Senior Executive Team she had responsibility for strategic leadership, financial and performance oversight, student affairs, internationalisation, and all aspects of the university. As Dean of the Faculty of Applied Arts, and as Dean of the Graduate Research School, she was responsible for, oversaw and led the development of education and research programmes, and internal quality assurance processes for all apprenticeship, undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes for all students within the Faculty of Applied Arts and the Graduate Research School. In the latter role, Ellen oversaw the development of policies, practices and quality assurance concerning research degrees, evaluation, assessment, supervision, etc. She was also actively involved in developing and promoting commercialization, share and promotion of research, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship training especially for SMEs.
Ellen was a NAFSA Senior Fellow, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, 2018-2019 and was awarded the Tony Adams Award for Excellence in Research by the European Association for International Education, 2018.
Professor Hazelkorn has worked as higher education policy consultant and specialist with international organisations and governments for over 20 years (e.g. European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Bank, UNESCO, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, U.S. Government Accountability Office), and regularly undertakes strategic and research evaluations for European and national research/scientific councils and universities (READ MORE).
Professor Hazelkorn is a member of several university, government and academic boards. (READ MORE).
She has authored/co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs, books and book chapters, and delivered over 200 keynotes speeches. Ellen is internationally recognised for her writings and analysis of rankings and other forms of quality and transparency instruments, and on higher education and policy. Ellen was named one of the ‘top 2%’ of all scientists in 2020, when self-citations are excluded, on the list released by Elsevier/Scopus and Stanford University. She was placed 956th out of 70,063 scientists whose primary field was Education, ranking her in the top 1.3% in Education worldwide.
For Publications and Policy Papers (SEE HERE).
Ellen was awarded a BA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Kent, UK, respectively. She has a Certificate from the Institute for Educational Management, Harvard University, USA, and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi Honour Society (READ MORE).
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