Prof. Dr. Barbara M. Kehm

Professor Dr. Barbara M. Kehm has been Professor for Higher Education Research at the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel. She was Director of the Centre from April 2004 to September 2011 and subsequently university professor at the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, UK. Since 2018 she is a Fellow at the Leibniz Center for Science and Society of the Leibniz University Hannover. There she is conducting a project on the future of the humanities.
Barbara Kehm is Executive Secretary of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER).
Her major research areas are: Higher Education Governance; Internationalisation in Higher Education; Development of Doctoral Education in Europe.
"Der Kampf ums Treppchen"
Das Ranking-Spiel hat viele Teilnehmer aber nur wenige Gewinner. Was also treibt die Hochschulen zur Aufholjagd um die Verbesserung ihrer Ranking-Positionen und was sind die Folgen diese Rennens? In ihrem Beitrag in der DUZ vom 31.5.2013 beleuchtet Barbara M. Kehm die Paradoxien des Ranking-Wettbewerbs.