Resilient Universities

Biographical notes

Jan Erik Karlsen (Volume editor) Rosalind Pritchard (Volume editor)

Jan Erik Karlsen is Emeritus Professor of Change Management/Industrial Economics at the University of Stavanger. He has served as Director/Head of Research at the International Research Institute of Stavanger and Adjunct Professor at the Stavanger University Hospital. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Madison (Wisconsin), the University of Southern California (LA), the École de Mines de Paris (Sophia Antipolis), the University of Barcelona and the ESADE School of Management (Barcelona). He is Vice Praeses of the Stavanger Academy of Sciences and in 2012 he was Forum Chair of the European Association for Institutional Research (EAIR) conference held in Stavanger, Norway. Rosalind M. O. Pritchard is Professor of Education at the University of Ulster, where she runs courses on the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages. She has a particular interest in Germany, and has published numerous articles and several books including Reconstructing Education: East German Schools and Universities after Unification, The End of Elitism? The Democratisation of the West German University System and Neoliberal Developments in Higher Education. She has been Chair of the British Association for International and Comparative Education, and was elected to membership of the British Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Irish Academy. She is also Secretary of the European Association for Institutional Research.