Prof. Dr. Liudvika Leisyte

Professor of Higher Education, Center for Higher Education (zhb), TU Dortmund University

Associated Professorship

Higher Education Didactics and Research

Vita

Since September 2013, I have been Professor of Higher Education at the Center for Higher Education (zhb) of TU Dortmund University, also serving as its Deputy Director since 2018. I teach at the Department of Business and Economics.
I am a member of the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals, e.g. Higher Education Policy, Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, and Social Inclusion. Further, I am an advisory board member of the Lithuanian Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency delegated by the Lithuanian Parliament Education and Science Committee. Since 2021, I have been a member of the project selection committee of the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre. Since 2024, I have served as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency Hanover (ZEvA).
In 2018, I received the Emerald Literati Award for the Highly Commended Paper in The Learning Organization international journal. In 2023, the paper 'Students as Actors of Change' received the Most Inspirational Paper Award at the EURAM Conference SIG 13 Strategic Management in Dublin.
In 2023, I was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe).

Focus of Work

My research focuses mainly on academic work and organizational transformation in the context of changing political and institutional environments. Drawing on sociological theories, I explore the issues of digitalization and university transformation, diversity and inclusion in higher education, academic work and careers, academic entrepreneurship, governance and management of higher education institutions.

Research and Practice projects (selection)

Publications (selection)

Leišytė, L. (2023). Work-life balance of early career academics in the context of COVID-19 pandemic-related regulatory changes. Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, 45(1), 114–128.

Leišytė, L., Pekşen, S. & Tönnes, L. (2022). The influence of university's HRM practices on female academics' progression to management positions. Journal of East European Management Studies, 27(4), 662–685. doi.org/10.5771/0949-6181-2022-4-662

Leišytė, L. & Pekşen, S. (2020). Nationale Evaluationssysteme für Forschung in Hochschulen – Gender Bias im europäischen Vergleich. In I. M. Welpe, J. Stumpf-Wollersheim & M. Prenzel (Hrsg.), Leistungsbewertung in der Wissenschaft. Berlin: DeGruyter.

Leišytė, L. (2019). Gender in European research policy. In D. Simon, S. Kuhlmann, J. Stamm & W. Canzler (Hrsg.), Handbook on science and public policy (S. 284-315). Cheltenham, Northampton: Edward Elgar. doi.org/10.4337/9781784715946.00025

Mergner, J., Leišytė, L. & Bosse, E. (2019). The widening participation agenda in German higher education: Discourses and legitimizing strategies. Social Inclusion, 7(1), 61-70. doi.org/10.17645/si.v7i1.1605

Leišytė, L., Schumacher, B. & Welzel, B. (2018). Komplexität entfalten durch Veränderungsmanagement in einer Universität: Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (DoProfiL). In S. Hußmann & B. Welzel (Hrsg.), DoProfiL – Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (S. 43-56). Münster: Waxmann.

Bender, C., Drolshagen, B., Rose, A.-L., Leišytė, L. & Rothenberg, B. (2018). Entwicklung einer inklusionsorientierten universitären Lehramtsausbildung – Maßnahmen der Organisationsentwicklung und Qualifizierung der Lehrenden. In S. Hußmann & B. Welzel (Hrsg.), DoProfiL – Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (S. 207-221). Münster: Waxmann.

Leišytė, L. & Hosch-Dayican, B. (2017). Gender and academic work at a Dutch university. In: H. Eggins (Hrsg.), The changing role of women in higher education. Academic and leadership issues (S. 95-117). Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Leišytė, L. (2016). New public management and research productivity – a precarious state of affairs of academic work in the Netherlands. Studies in Higher Education, 41(5), 828-846. doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1147721

Leišytė, L. & Hosch-Dayican, B. (2014). Changing academic roles and shifting gender inequalities: A case analysis of the influence of the teaching-research nexus on the academic career prospects of female academics in The Netherlands. Journal of Workplace Rights, 17(3-4), 467-490. doi.org/10.2190/WR.17.3-4.m

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Casegroup

Social Sciences