Name: Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society
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Higher Education and Research in the Post-Knowledge Society

Scenarios for a Future World

Edited By: Merle Jacob, Mary-Louise Kearney, V. Lynn Meek

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How will higher education evolve to underpin sustainable societies? This book explores future scenarios against a background of transformation, including digital advances, globalization, socio-economic inequality, and climate change.

How will higher education and research evolve in the future to produce the high-level knowledge and skilled human capital which underpin sustainable societies? This book…

How will higher education and research evolve in the future to produce the high-level knowledge and skilled human capital which underpin sustainable societies?

This book explores challenges for the post-knowledge society and economy where major socio-economic change is occurring in tandem with advances in digital technologies. It brings together international authors to discuss scenarios against a background of transformation, including the fourth wave of globalization, demographic shifts, socio-economic inequality, and climate change. Policy-makers, institutional leaders, the academy, students, employers and society at large will find this book topical and thoughtful.

Merle Jacob is Professor of Research Policy and UNESCO Chair in Research Management and Innovation Systems at Lund University, Sweden. She is a former Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Strasbourg University, France.

Mary-Louise Kearney is an Honorary Research Fellow at Auckland University, New Zealand. She is a former Director of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education, Research and Knowledge.

V. Lynn Meek (1948-2022) was a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University, Australia. He was also a Higher Education Adviser to the OECD and UNESCO and Principal Editor of the SRHE Journal, Studies in Higher Education (2012-2019).

Hamish Coates, Christine Davies, Cheryl Doig, Daniela Dumitru, Heather Eggins, Annette Fillery-Travis, Peter Gluckman, Leo Goedegebuure, Futao Huang, Niilo Kauppi, Elisabeth Lillie, Peter Maassen, Tony Marjoram, Asa Olsson, Pundy Pillay, Susan Robertson, N. V. Varghese, Charmaine Williamson, Merle Jacob, Mary-Louise Kearney, V. Lynn Meek