Dr Aniko Horvath
Aniko Horvath is a CGHE Co-Investigator on Project 6, ‘The impact of locality and region on university governance’.
Aniko’s research at VU Amsterdam focuses on system-level governance in higher education; the impact of locality and region on institutional governance; the role of the state and marketization in higher education; processes of control, compliance and contestation in universities; as well as inequalities, class and employment relations within academia.
Prior to coming to VU Amsterdam, Aniko has worked at the University of Oxford, University College London, King’s College London, the University of Bristol, Goldsmiths University, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Aniko’s research at CGHE focuses on the impact of locality and region on institutional governance; system-level governance in higher education; organisational management and leadership; institutional diversity; universities as complex global transnational organisations; the role of the state and marketization as key engines of change in higher education; organisational structures and (in)formal practices restricting/enabling innovation and creativity in complex organisations; processes of control, compliance and contestation in universities; the impacts of system-level shocks to the HE sector (using Brexit as a case study); as well as inequalities, class and employment relations within academia.
Areas of expertise
• the anthropology of organisations
• theories of organisation and governance
• urban anthropology
• inequalities and social reproduction
• nationalism, change and identity
• qualitative research methods in anthropology/sociology
CGHE publications
- Universities and Regions: the ‘Hinterland’ Issue in European Higher Education Policymaking
- The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures
- Universities and Regions: The Impact of Locality and Region on University Governance and Strategies
- ‘Governance’ – in crisis? A cross-disciplinary critical review of three decades of ‘governance’ scholarship
- Higher education and Brexit: current European perspectives
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence?
- Higher Education and the Regional Dimension in England
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar: Governing public and private higher education in UK and beyond
- Decentralising government: the impact of devolution on the governance of UK higher education
- CGHE 2019 annual conference: Challenging higher education
- Governance challenges across sectors and globally, and their relevance to higher education
Select recent publications
- The decentralisation of the governance of UK higher education: the effects of devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and on England
Policy Reviews in Higher Education, May 2020 - Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures
Bloomsbury Academic, October 2019 - Review: Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective, edited by Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones
Times Higher Education, September 2019 - Review: Educational Equality and International Students: Justice across Borders?, by Stuart Tannock
Times Higher Education, August 2018 - Review: Recruiting International Students in Higher Education: Representations and Rationales in British Policy, by Sylvie Lomer
Times Higher Education, October 2017 - ‘Governance’ – in crisis? A cross-disciplinary critical review of three decades of ‘governance’ scholarship
CGHE working paper, June 2017 - Review: Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education, by Lawrence Busch
Times Higher Education, April 2017 - Compliance and contestation in the neoliberal university: reflecting on the identities of UK social scientists
A European politics of education, Routledge, 2016 - Review: Solitudes of the Workplace: Women in Universities, edited by Elvi Whittaker
Times Higher Education, May 2016
Other selected publications
- New Knowledge about Hungary
CEU, 2013 - Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Concepts and Practices in Hungary
ACCEPT–PLURALISM; 2012/26; 5. New Knowledge; Country Synthesis Reports - Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Hungary. In Addressing Tolerance and Diversity Discourse in Europe: A comparative Overview of 16 European Countries
CIDOB, April 2012 (p. 317-345) - The Ferry-country Between East and West: Debates on Modernity and Europe in Hungary. In Europe, Nations and Modernity
Palgrave MacMillan, 2011 (p. 158-183) - The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media. In The European Public Sphere and the Media. Europe in Crisis.
Palgrave MacMillan, 2009 (p. 83-115) - Affirmative Action at Babes-Bolyai University: Roma Students Enrolled in the Programme
Studia/Universitatis Babes-Bolyai/Sociologia, 2007/1, Cluj (p. 37-67)