Creating the Desire for Change in Higher Education: The Amsterdam Path to the Research-Teaching Nexus

Focusing on change in higher education, and on furthering the integration of research and education, this open access book brings together and builds upon the international bodies of knowledge on higher education change and on the relationship between research and teaching. Rather than simply combining this knowledge, this book provides a thorough understanding of change paths towards sustainable hybrid higher education organizations of research and teaching. The contributors explore ways in which the model can work at the different levels of the higher education organisation, providing knowledge and understanding of creating an evidence-informed direction for institutional change towards the improved connection between research and education.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), the Netherlands.

Didi M.E. Griffioen is professor and head of department of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Griffioen is a Comenius Leadership Fellow granted by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and was the first Principal Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy appointed in The Netherlands. She is a leading international scholar in the transformation of higher education, with a focus on enhancing connections between education, teaching and professional practice. She is the former chair of the Higher Education special interest group of the Netherlands Educational Research Association (VOR-HO), and a former trustee and member of the Governing Council of the British Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE). She has been published nationally and internationally for professional and scientific audiences.