Selected keynotes
EAIR Forum Linz, Austria 2023
Shaping the World of Change – Higher Education as a Key Enabler
3 - 6 September 2023
https://www.the-eair.org/forum2023linz/keynote-speakers
SLODRE (The Slovenian Educational Research Association) Annual Conference 2023
"Vključevanje raziskovalnega dela v pedagoške procese izobraževanja učiteljic in učiteljev: dvoje pričakovanih učnih dosežkov" [Research-intensive courses in teacher training : the twofold expected learning outcomes]
Koper, Slovenia
20 - 21 September 2023
“Reimagining institutional research in adaptable, resilient, and future-centric higher education”. Keynote at the 28th Annual Conference of the Southern African Association for Institutional research, SAAIR 2021 Conference, 4 November 2021
"What does the Covid-19 pandemic mean for the social dimension in higher education?", EUROSTUDENT VII Final Conference, 18 May 2021 (online), Hanover, Germany organized by DZHW German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies https://www.eurostudent.eu/final_conference_2021
“Student centred learning and teaching to overcome problems inherent in traditional forms of education and to situations such as COVID-19,” ET2020 Working Group on Higher Education and Distance Learning Network on Higher Education on COVID-19, European Commission of the European Union (online), 3rd July 2020
“Successful Design of Student-Centred Learning and Instruction Ecosystems in the European Higher Education Area,” the Twentieth Anniversary of the Bologna Declaration, Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, 24 and 25 June 2019 http://bolognaprocess2019.it/
“Student Politics: between representation and activism,” COSMOS CONFERENCE The Contentious Politics of Higher Education. Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Florence, Italy, 15-16 November 2017
“Shifting authority in transnational governance of higher education policies,” at the European Educational Research Association (EERA) ECER 2017: Reforming Education and the Imperative of Constant Change: Ambivalent roles of policy and educational research, , University College Copenhagen, Denmark, 22 – 25 August 2017
"Reaching for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in European Higher Education,” 3rd Central European Higher Education Cooperation (CEHEC) Conference 2017: Worry or not - higher education in Central and Eastern Europe: current trends and scenarios for the near future, Center of International Higher Education Studies (CIHES) at the Corvinus University of Budapest and Yehuda Elkana Center for Higher Education at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, April 24 - 25, 2017
"Five theoretical propositions concerning research on students,” the 6th International Conference on Higher Education Research with special topic "Rethinking Students: Ideas and New Research Approaches,” The Russian Association of Higher Education Researchers Conference 2015, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, October 15-17, 2015
“The role of institutional research in positioning higher education institutions - practices in CEE countries,” the 37th Annual Forum of the European Higher Education Society - Linking research, policy and practice (EAIR), the Danube University of Krems, Austria, August 30– September 3, 2015
“Student representation in an international perspective,” at the African Minds and Center for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) Symposium on Student representation in higher education governance in Africa, Capetown, South Africa, 20-22 August 2014
“Student engagement in time of transformation,” the 2013 Annual Research Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education: Experiencing Higher Education: Global Trends and Transformations, Celtic Manor Resort, Wales, United Kingdom, 11-13 December 2013
“Student engagement in institutional research: desirable, feasible, effective?” The 2013 Annual Conference of The UK and Ireland Higher Education Institutional Research (HEIR) Network: Productive Partnerships: Engaging stakeholders in Institutional Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 10-12 July 2013
All keynotes
2021 “The theory and practice of student representation in higher education governance”, Opening keynote, Global Student Forum Academy, Module 1, 3 October 2021
2020 "Student centred learning and teaching in online higher education". EdCrunch Ural 2020 - International Scientific Online Conference on Digital Transformations Challeneges, Ural Federal University, Russia, 29 September 2020 (online) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFp5R0tlELM&feature=youtu.be
2020 "Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education - challenges and opportunities", Anniversary Celebration, University of Maribor, Slovenia, 18 September 2020 (online) Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZrbbE0m9jg and the entire event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDniGhkk5HA
2020 "Student Centred learning and teaching to overcome problems inherent in traditional forms of education and to situations such as COVID-19", presented at "Pedagogical approaches to online teaching and learning" ET2020 Working Group on Higher Education, 10th Meeting jointly with the Yammer Distance Learning Network on Higher Education on COVID-19 (virtual meeting, 3rd July 2020)
2020 "Na študente osredinjeno učenje in poučevanje v visokem šolstvu", Projekt »Inovativno učenje in poučevanje v visokem šolstvu (INOVUP)«, Univerza Maribor, 7 February 2020. http://www.inovup.si/novice/2020/utrinki-tretjega-nacionalnega-posveta-projekta-inovup
2019 "Designing student-centred learning ecosystems" at 20th Anniversary of the Bologna Process, University of Bologna, 24-25 June 2019 http://bolognaprocess2019.it/
2018 "Student power on campus: activism, representation and service" at "Revolt! Student protests from 1968 to today, A Symposium, University of Rhode Island, College of Arts and Sciences, September 14 2018 https://revoltsymposium.wordpress.com/
2018 "The role of internationalisation in quality of teaching and learning in higher education institutions in Central and Eastern Europe" at International Conference: Internationalisation - Enhancing Quality of Learning and Teaching, CMEPIUS, 2 March 2018, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia
2017 "Student Politics: betweeen representation and activism", COSMOS CONFERENCE The Contentious Politics of Higher Education. Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism 15-16 November 2017, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Florence, Italy
2017 "Building excellence in teaching and learning in higher education in the EU: what works and how to create enabling conditions for it", Estonian EU Council Presidency - Meeting of Director Generals for Higher Education, 12-13 October 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 “Shifting authority in transnational governance of highe reducation policies", at the European Educational Research Association (EERA) ECER 2017: Reforming Education and the Imperative of Constant Change: Ambivalent roles of policy and educational research, 22 – 25 August 2017 at University College Copenhagen.http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-2017-copenhagen/
2017 "Reaching for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in European Higher Education", The Central European Higher Education Cooperation (CEHEC) Conference - WORRY OR NOT - HIGHER EDUCATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE: CURRENT TRENDS AND SCENARIOS FOR THE NEAR FUTURE, April 24, 2017 - April 25, 2017, Budapest, Hungary. https://elkanacenter.ceu.edu/events/2017-04-24/3rd-central-european-higher-education-cooperation-cehec-conference
2016 “Student-Centred Learning Environments in the EU: current trends, approaches and use” at Student-Centred Learning Environments: Modern Approach and Instruments, Erasmus + Office, Kazakhstan and Narxoz University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 8 June 2016
2016 "Implementing student centred learning environments: strengthening student agency" at "Assuring Student Centred Learning: PASCL Final Conference" PASCL Project (Peer Assessment of Student Centred Learning in Higher Education), Brussels, Belgium, 27 May 2016
2016 "Internationalization, mobility and recognition in 2030 - Challenges in the future landscapes" at the meeting of the Council of Europe/UNESCO Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region - the Lisbon Recognition Convention Committee, UNESCO, Paris, 29 February, 2016
2016 "How students' university citizenship contributes to self-formation and well-being of the students and their universities?" “INTCESS 2016- 3rd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences”, Istanbul, Turkey, 8-10 February, 2016 http://www.ocerint.org/intcess16/
2015 "The many dimensions of student-centred learning", HERE Conference “Innovating learning and teaching: the next phase of the Bologna Process”, organised by the initiative ‘Centralised Support for Higher Education Reform Experts in European Neighborhood countries (www.supporthere.org)', 3-4 December 2015, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tibilisi, Georgia.
2015 "The main challenges of implementing students centered learning in higher education institutions", Conference "Implementation of student cantered learning within higher education institutions", Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC), Vilnius, Lithuania, 1 December 2015
2015 "Five theoretical propositions concerning research on students", the 6th International Conference on Higher Education Research with special topic "Rethinking Students: Ideas and New Research Approaches", Higher School of Economics, Moscow, October 15-17, 2015 http://educonf.hse.ru/en/2015.
2015 "The role of institutional research in positioning higher education institutions - practices in CEE countries”, the 37th Annual Forum of the European Higher Education Society - Linking research, policy and practice (EAIR), the Danube University of Krems, Austria, August 30th – September 3rd, 2015 http://www.eairweb.org/forum2015/ (see publications for published chapter)
2014 "Student representation in an international perspective", the African Minds and Center for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) Symposium on Student representation in higher education governance in Africa, Capetown, 20-22 August 2014
2014 "You've got the power...but how much influence truly?", at the 2014 NUS Student Unions' Convention, (Bolton, UK, 3 July 2014) (Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrRjc6Wx0b4 )
2014 "Internationalisation of higher education in Slovenia", at the National Higher Education Convention of the Slovenian Rectors' Conference (Ljubljana, 17 April 2014)
2014 "Asymmetric developments in student mobility within the EHEA" at the European Students' Union Seminar "Challenges of Student Mobility in a Cosmopolitan Europe" and 66th Board Meeting (Bratislava (via skype), 29 April 2014)
2013 “Student engagement in time of transformation”, at the 2013 Annual Research Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education: Experiencing Higher Education: Global Trends and Transformations (Celtic Manor Resort, Wales, 11-13 December 2013)
2013 “Student engagement in institutional research: desirable, feasible, effective?”, at the 2013 Annual Conference of the The UK and Ireland Higher Education Institutional Research (HEIR) Network: Productive Partnerships: Engaging stakeholders in Institutional Research (Birmingham City University, 10-12 July 2013)
2011 “Internationalization, differentiation and implications for student governance in Europe", at the 21st European Students' Convention of the European Students' Union (Budapest, 16 February 2011)
2011 “Student participation: main developments and challenges”, at the Bologna Seminar [on] Student participation in higher education governance, organised by Council of Europe and Armenian Government (Aghveran, 8 December 2011)
2008 “Challenges for the future of the European student movement”, 15th European Student Convention: Students for Democracy (Ljubljana, 14 March, 2008)
2008 “Universities and lifelong learning: forging a special relationship", at the Official Slovenian EU Presidency Conference on Universities and Lifelong Learning (Brdo, 10 March 2008)
