Anna Pokorska

Nicolaus Copernicus University | umk · Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences

There is a growing interest in the underlying mechanisms affecting female leaders in higher education. And this paper examines the problem by focusing specifically on Polish public universities which historically stands out by particularly low number of female university rectors. The core of the study is based on 15 in‐depth expert interviews with...

There is growing interest in the underlying mechanisms affecting female leaders in Higher Education (HE). This article compares four countries – Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden to identify key structural conditions (enablers and barriers) for female representation in academia by studying the regulative framework of government policy. Two researc...

In 2018, a new governance law (Ustawa 2.0) modernised the institutional governance of Polish public higher education institutions. This article investigates the governance changes from the cultural perspective of higher education governance through a survey administered to all Polish rectors. Responses were analysed by splitting higher education in...

Inicjatywa Uniwersytetów Europejskich (European Universities Initiative, EUI), czyli ponadgranicznych partnerstw uczelni, docelowo oferujących wspólne kierunki studiów i jednolite dyplomy, jest flagowym przedsięwzięciem Komisji Europejskiej (KE) w obszarze szkolnictwa wyższego. Projekt ten, któremu początek dało przemówienie prezydenta Francji Emma...

Due to socio-economic changes, universities are increasingly becoming organizational actors instead of a community of scholars. They tend to be evaluated on the basis of the results of their planned activities, which leads to a battle for position and prestige and prestige. Higher education reforms in Poland are going to contribute to the transform...

The conducted research shows that a university is an institution, in which the domination of sociocultural masculinity is the main source of institutional barriers. This appears to almost perfectly inscribe into Joan Acker’s earlier findings. The academics do not seem to notice the barriers and are often unaware of them because they perceive the ba...

The goal of this article is to discuss dynamics hindering women's career in managerial roles of Polish comprehensive universities. Although female academics outnumber their male peers, they remain underrepresented in the management at universities. In the last 30 years, only 2 women held a position of rector. In this article, we analyse the reasons...