Internationalization and the Academic Profession Comparative Perspectives

Alper Çalıkoğlu 
is a researcher in Turkey. His research interests lie in the fields of internationalization of higher education, the academic profession, and higher education governance and management. During his doctoral education, he has been to Finland as an ERASMUS exchange student and to the United States as a TÜBİTAK fellow and carried out research on faculty internationalization, international students, and institutional policies for internationalization in higher education. His recent articles related to internationalization and the academic profession include Faculty international engagement: Examining rationales, strategies and barriers in institutional settings (with Jenny J. Lee and Hasan Arslan, Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022) and Changing patterns of international academic mobility: Experiences of Western-origin faculty members in Turkey (with Fatma Nevra Seggie, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021). Based on articles from the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society (APIKS) project, he has also co-edited a special issue on internationalization in the Journal of Higher Education, Turkey (with Fatma Nevra Seggie, Süphan Nasır, and Harun Serpil). He has served as an administrative board member of the Association for Higher Education Studies (YÖÇAD) in Turkey and is a Turkish team member of the APIKS project.

Glen A. Jones
 is Professor of Higher Education and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His research focuses on the academic profession, higher education governance and policy. He is a frequent contributor to the Canadian and international literature on higher education, and he has received awards for his contributions to research from the Canadian Association for the Study of Higher Education, the Canadian Bureau for International Education, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education; he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manitoba in 2018. His recent co-edited books include Universities in the Knowledge Society: The Nexus of National Systems of Innovation and Higher Education (with Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein and Jisun Jung, Springer, 2021), International Education as Public Policy in Canada (with Marli Tamtik and Roopa Desai Trilokekar, McGill-Queen’s, 2020) and Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective (with Martin Finkelstein, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019). He leads the Canadian research team for the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society project.

Yangson Kim
 is Associate Professor in Research Institute for Higher Education at Hiroshima University. Her areas of special interest focus on the academic profession, internationalization of higher education, research productivity and collaboration of academics, institutional context and governance of higher education,and comparative higher education in Asia-Pacific countries. Her recent research articles and book chapters have been published on the topics of internationalization and academic professions; stratified internationalization in Korean universities (Song & Kim, 2022), junior female academics in Korea and Japan (Kim & Kim, 2021; Kim & Sato, 2021), the influence of internationalization policy (Shimauchi & Kim, 2020), and challenges and experiences of international academics (Brotherhood, Hammond, & Kim, 2020; Huang, Daizen, Kim 2019). She co-edited the special issue of Higher Education Forum for the research teaching nexus of academics in the new era (with Gerard Postiglione, 2020). She was a Korean team member of the project Changing Academic Profession (CAP) and is currently a Japanese one of the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society (APIKS) project.