Marco Seeber

Marco's forskning undersøker politikk, styring, organisering og ledelse av høyere utdanningssystemer og institusjoner, vitenskap og forskning, ved å vedta forskningsdesign på flere nivåer, komparative og kvantitative. Viktige emner som er av interesse inkluderer: virkningen av politikk og virkemiddelapparater på høyere utdanning og vitenskap (f.eks. NPM, beregninger), forskningsevaluering (fagfellevurdering, prosjektvalg, nye bibliometriske indekser), internasjonalisering og tverrfaglighet, organisatorisk kompleksitet (relasjoner, symboler, misjonserklæringer, nettsteder, strategisk posisjonering).

Hans arbeider er publisert i tidsskrifter som Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, Public Management Review, Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Scientometrics, Research Evaluation, Journal of Informetrics. Hans arbeid med selvsiteringer har blitt omtalt i Nature Index, London School of Economics impact blog a b, og han har blitt intervjuet for Nature , Science og Physics Today . Hans medforfatteroppgave om konkurransen om å tiltrekke seg talent vant den Swiss Prize for Research in Education 2019. Han er blant arrangørene og forfatterne av oppfordringen om å dele data om fagfellevurderinger omtalt i Nature.

Han er administrerende redaktør for European Journal of Higher Education og eksternt medlem av vurderingsenheten ved Universitetet i Modena og Reggio Emilia (Italia).

Contribution to:

ME 400 - Methods and Statistics (Social Network Analysis - Survey Analysis)

ME 631 - Research in Social Science - Doctoral Course - (quantitative research)

ORG 411 - Organizational Change and Change Management

ORG 445-1 - Leadership in the Higher Education Sector - (Leadership in Higher Education and Science)

ORG 447 - Steering and Network Organization in the Public Sector 

ST 400 - Political Systems and Governance (Governance of public higher education and Science)

ST 423 - Research Design and Advanced Methods for the Social Sciences (How to write a Master Thesis)

Selected projects

TEFCE (2018– 2019) – Multinational comparative project for the European Commission aimed to understand how to improve the community engagement of universities. 

Survey on International students - City of Ghent and Higher Education Institutions in Ghent (2018-2019) – Role: expert

European University Association (2017- 2018) – Survey on Doctoral Education among EUA members – Role: expert

MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS (2016 -2017) – FP7 ex post and H2020 interim evaluation – Role: external expert counselling for data analysis

HEREL (2016 – 2017) – Project for the European Commission. Comparative study of eight countries exploring policies promoting the relevance of Higher Education

SHERDE (2015-2016) - Project for the European Commission. Comparative study of eight countries aimed to study Structural Higher Education Reforms

EUNIVATION (2015-2016) Project for the European Commission, aimed to study universities’ contributions to innovation capacity – Role: external expert, indicators design, literature review.

COST action (2014- 2018) – “Reforming Peer review” action TD 1306 – Role: Dissemination and Outreach co-ordinator, member of the workgroup on theory and concepts.

ERAWATCH (2013) – Platform on Research and Innovation policies and systems: Analytical Country report on Switzerland – Role: Expert for the European commission

ESPON-AMCER Project (2012) - Project for the European Commission. Advanced Monitoring and Coordination of EU R&D Policies at Regional Level

LOMBARDY REGION (2011)– A system of indicators for the Management of a Regional Higher Education system

TRUE (2010) – Comparative multinational project studying the changes in the governance of European universities - Role: studying the funding and evaluation systems of the eight European countries, Guidelines for analysing survey data.

Seeber M.*, Meoli M., Cattaneo M. (in press) How do European Higher Education Institutions internationalize? Studies in Higher Education. In press. LINK

Huisman J., Seeber M. (2019) Higher Education policies and the effects on Science. Handbook of Science and Public Policy eds. Weert Canzler, Stefan Kuhlmann, Dagmar Simon. Edward Elgar Publishing LINK

Seeber M.*, Cattaneo M., Meoli M., Malighetti P. (2019) Self-citations as a strategic response to the use of metrics for career decisions. Research Policy. 48 (2) pp. 478-491. LINK

Seeber, M.,*, Barberio, V., Huisman, J., Mampaey, J. (2019) Factors affecting the content of universities’ mission statements. An analysis of the United Kingdom higher education system. Studies in Higher Education. 44 (2) pp. 230-244 . LINK 

Zaharie, M. A., Seeber, M.* (2018) Are non-monetary rewards effective in attracting peer reviewers? A natural experiment. Scientometrics. 117(3) pp. 1587–1609. LINK

Fumasoli T., Seeber M. (2018) Scholarly or socially relevant? An examination of European academic associations. European Educational Research Journal (EERJ). 17 (3) pp. 385-403.

Donina D., Seeber M., Paleari S. (2017) Inconsistencies in the Governance of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Italian Higher Education System.  Science and Public Policy. 44 (6) pp. 865-875

Seeber M. *, Bacchelli A. (2017) Does single blind peer review hinder newcomers? Scientometrics. 113(1) pp. 567-585

Seeber M. *, Cattaneo M., Huisman J., Paleari S. (2016) Why do higher education institutions internationalize? An investigation of the multilevel determinants of internationalization rationales.  Higher Education. 72 (5)  pp. 685–702

Canhilal S. K., Lepori B., Seeber M. (2016) Decision-Making Power and Institutional Logic in Higher Education Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of European Universities. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 45 pp. 169-194.

Seeber M. *, Lepori B., Montauti M., Enders J., De Boer, H., et al. (2015) European universities as complete organizations? Understanding identity, hierarchy and rationality in public organizations. Public Management Review.  17 (10) pp. 1444-1474

Lepori B., Seeber M., Bonaccorsi A. (2015) Competition for talent. Country and university-level effects in the internationalization of European universities. Research Policy.  44(3) pp. 789-802