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Future of Higher Education Research Centre
Future of Higher Education Research Centre
The BUEB Future of Higher Education Research Centre (FHERC) examines the challenges and opportunities for the future of higher education. FHERC effectively supports the University's strategic goals, is committed to helping the academic community, the economic and corporate sectors to understand the challenges and opportunities for the future of higher education as a high-level research and knowledge-sharing centre.

 

The FHERC team conducts topic-specific research with extensive involvement, domestic and international research collaborations and innovative methodologies, the results of which can be directly utilised within the higher education sector and have a positive impact on higher education institutions and the labour market. The mission of FHERC is to represent the high-level research capacities of the BUEB towards the domestic and international academic community and to operate a high-quality research centre in the field of higher education research.


Areas of activities
Research
  • Agency in higher education – from individual to global level
  • Future of business education
  • Exploring major trends and challenges in higher education, building future scenarios and collection good examples
  • How COVID-19 restrictions affected the subpopulation (generation) of the cohort of early career workers
  • Different innovations in educational methodology, with particular attention to student autonomy, soft skill development, student and teacher digital competencies, internationalization, artificial intelligence literacy, educational development, and teacher development


Scientific achievements and social impact
  • High-level publications (publishing in highly qualified domestic and international journaly, conference presentations, book chapters, edited volumes etc.) )
  • HAS Award - The members of FHERC repeteadly won the Professional Award of the Subcommittee on Management and Organizational Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2019 and 2022. (more information HERE)
  • In the framework of the Danish project 'European Universities - Critical Futures' (network of 18 European research centres 2019-2021), FHERC has joined a project examining the impact of COVID19 on higher education through country studies.
  • FHERC publishes scientific publications and research results so that they are available to anyone interested HERE and HERE.
  • The centre presents its scientific findings in an interesting and understandable way, including in the newly launched Horizon Scanning report series, which is available HERE, publishes summaries on higher education and runs a professional blog on the subject.

 

Dissemination activities (editing, guest-editing tasks, lectures and events)
CONTACT US
If you would like to know more about our team,

we recommend our own website.

If you would like to follow our research activities,

find us on Researchgate!

If you wish to read interesting research from the world of international higher education,

it is worth following our summaries.

If you would like to read more about research,

we recommend our professional blog for that!

Scientific publications and research results

are publicly available to anyone interested HERE and HERE.

If you wish to join us,

write to us at fherc@uni-bge.hu.

TOP Projects

Horizon Scanning Report Series

In 2020, FHERC launched a new series of Horizon Scanning reports that, based on academic and expert discourses, seek answers to the question of what trends can be identified for the future of higher education. The project, which is part of a longer National Research Development Innovation Office supported research (FK127972), has become extremely relevant due to the altered situation caused by the COVID19 pandemic. That is why FHERC constantly makes its reports publicly available to help the various stakeholders in the sector navigate today's changing higher education environment. The report series is available HERE.


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Activities in detail

Research

We have started in 2022 a 4-year research project about agency in higher education – from individual to global level. The aim of our research is to map how the different actors of higher education portray their social roles, and through that, their sense of agency. In the research we will focus on global/macro and meso/micro levels of the higher education system in order to compare each levels’ discourse on the matter. This research is supported by National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary) between 2022-2026 (K142227).

A new research project has started in 2023 led by Anita Kolnhofer-Derecskei, Regina Reicher and Karina Szászvári. This research aims to determine how COVID-19restrictions affected the subpopulation (generation) of the cohort of early career workers who experienced a lockdown during the transition from university to the labour market.

In 2023, another research group joined us. In the forefront of their common interest is innovation in educational methodology, with particular attention to student autonomy, soft skill development, student and teacher digital competencies, internationalization, artificial intelligence literacy, educational development, and teacher development.

In 2023 ended a 5-year-long research project covering the future of business education. As part of this project, we investigated what social roles highly ranked business schools attribute to themselves and what kind of future they envision in their communication. Furthermore, we explored the most influential trends and biggest challenges facing the HE sector and its institutions, which we channelled into a scenario-building process. As a result, we published our scenario report in 2022, which outlines four possible futures for higher education. Based on this, we are now running scenario workshops and getting feedback from different stakeholder groups within the university. We have got support from ‘Research projects initiated by young researchers’ fund of National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary) between 2018-2023 (FK127972).

More information about our research projects can be found HERE.

Dissemination activities

In addition to continuous research the FHERC team is active in domestic and international competitions, regularly organises conferences and professional workshops, and participates in prestigious scientific events with speakers. We are members of the 'European Universities - Critical Futures' project, which brings together European higher education research centres and researchers led by CHEF in Aarhus. Previously, we participated in the project called "Global Essay Mills Survey" (GEMS), we edited a special issue for the prestigious Futures journal (Q1) entitled Future of Higher Education. In addition, the head of the centre, Zsuzsanna Géring (PhD), was also a member of the management of the International Research Network ISA RC07 Futures Research between 2018 and 2022.                             

In 2018, the professional leader of FHERC, Gábor Király (PhD), received an expert analyst request from the EU Commission, within framework of which he prepared expert background material for the JRC of the European Union on the topic ‘Future of Higher Education – an entrepreneurship university concept in one focus. FHERC is active in domestic and international tenders.        

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