In France as in many other countries, higher education public policies aimed at increasing the level of competition between academics, research teams, training programs but also among universities.
Building on the French case, Christine Musselin identifies how these policies impacts on the internal government and the power relationships within universities, how they modify the higher education landscape, how they redefine what “good science” is and who is engage in this normative work. And how they affect the academic profession. She will also show that competition leads to new forms of cooperation and that this formalizes the increasing stratification of higher education systems.
The Science of Science in the Spotlight Lecture Series provides a forum for multidisciplinary exchange and dialogue across the fields of higher education, bibliometrics, and science studies in Luxembourg. Through international visits and collaboration with leading experts in the relevant research fields and disciplines, the lecture series offers an ideal platform to bolster Luxembourg’s growing research expertise and current initiatives in the « science of science”, including diverse science and policy communities and the wider public. At the interface of different strands of research that have grown in Luxembourg over the last decade, the lecture series showcases emerging collaborations within Luxembourg, across Europe, and globally. It provides opportunities to discuss cutting-edge research results in this highly innovative multidisciplinary field of research. The lectures will stimulate debates on theoretical and methodological approaches and on data acquisition and analysis. Leading researchers visiting Luxembourg will share their knowledge at the intersection of higher education research and science studies, bibliometrics, embedded in social and computational sciences more generally.
The lecture series will foster discussions relating to international higher education developments, science capacity-building, scientific knowledge production, research evaluation, collaborative networks, and researcher mobility. Structured as a multidisciplinary series of events, the lectures provide diverse and integrated insights and will help us to solidify Luxembourg’s network in this field of research, to build new national and international relationships, and to encourage a multidisciplinary, interfaculty, and interorganizational exchange with leading researchers from abroad.