EAIR Forum Cork 2024
Track 1: Sustainable Strategic Management and Governance in Higher Education
Track Chairs: Dr Ruth Hally, Professor Rosalind Pritchard
Public interest in the performance of higher education continues to increase along with dynamic expectations of its contribution to the knowledge economy, economic growth, societal development, and environmental protection.
Public interest in the performance of higher education continues to increase along with dynamic expectations of its contribution to the knowledge economy, economic growth, societal development, and environmental protection.
Track 2: Innovation in Teaching and Learning and sustainable professional practice
Track Chairs: Professor Paul McSweeney, Professor Matt O’Leary
The world is changing. Our society, environment, economy, and labour markets are transforming at a rapid pace, and this has been further accelerated by the impact of global pandemics and of changing climate and migration patterns.
The world is changing. Our society, environment, economy, and labour markets are transforming at a rapid pace, and this has been further accelerated by the impact of global pandemics and of changing climate and migration patterns.
Track 3: Sustaining Research Excellence
Track Chairs: Dr David O’Connell, Dr Jessica Nooij
Sustaining competitive and effective research systems that foster deep connections between research, innovation, and education, and which address complex and dynamic societal challenges that extend beyond disciplines and international borders, require strategies that strengthen research excellence and deliver impact.
Sustaining competitive and effective research systems that foster deep connections between research, innovation, and education, and which address complex and dynamic societal challenges that extend beyond disciplines and international borders, require strategies that strengthen research excellence and deliver impact.
Track 4: Sustaining Resilient Quality Cultures in Higher Education
Track Chairs: Elizabeth Noonan, Saskia Ulrich
External quality standards and guidelines at international and national level provide important reference points to guide the orientation and development of quality assurance and quality management approaches
External quality standards and guidelines at international and national level provide important reference points to guide the orientation and development of quality assurance and quality management approaches
Track 5: Embedding and Sustaining Digitalisation
Track Chairs: Dr Sarah Thelen, Dr Göran Melin
The only true constant in Higher Education is change. From Covid to Artificial Intelligence, from the rise of blended and online learning to the return to campus-based teaching, and so on, change is always with us
The only true constant in Higher Education is change. From Covid to Artificial Intelligence, from the rise of blended and online learning to the return to campus-based teaching, and so on, change is always with us
Track 6: Internationalisation and Sustainable Transnational Cooperation
Track Chairs: Dr Jean Van Sinderen Law, Professor Marijk van der Wende
Internationalisation and transnational cooperation initiatives provide a variety of routes to enrich institutions’ education and research programmes.
Internationalisation and transnational cooperation initiatives provide a variety of routes to enrich institutions’ education and research programmes.
Track 7: Sustaining staff and student wellbeing
Track Chairs: Dr Eithne Hunt, Professor Mark O’Hara
The importance of sustaining and nurturing the individual and collective welfare, wellbeing, and meaningful engagement of staff in the delivery of higher education cannot be underestimated.
The importance of sustaining and nurturing the individual and collective welfare, wellbeing, and meaningful engagement of staff in the delivery of higher education cannot be underestimated.