Dr Janja Komljenovic
Janja Komljenovic is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, where her research focuses on the political economy of higher education; and the digitalisation, datafication and platformisation of universities.
Janja led an ESRC-funded research project, ‘Universities and Unicorns: building digital assets in the higher education industry’ investigating new forms of value in the digitalised higher education sector. Her approach intersects economic sociology, science and technology studies, and higher education research. She has published internationally on higher education policy, higher education markets and educational technology. Janja acts as a consultant on various international higher education policy projects, is an evaluator of national quality assurance agencies, and a member of international organisations’ committees.
Janja’s full profile is available on LU’s website.
CGHE publications
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- 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
- From a rebel to consumer and now a digital user: the changing role of students in British university governance
- Higher education and the hopes of the world: The next three years of CGHE research
- Graduateness: What is a graduate of contemporary higher education?
Select publications
- The rise of education rentiers: digital platforms, digital data and rents
Learning, Media and Technology, February 2021 - The future of value in digitalised higher education: why data privacy should not be our biggest concern
Komljenovic, J. 19/11/2020 In: Higher Education. 17 p. - The employability dispositif, or the re-articulation of the relationship between universities and their environment
Hartmann, E., Komljenovic, J. 28/02/2020 In: Journal of Education Policy. 26 p. - Big data and new social relations in higher education: Academia.edu, Google Scholar and ResearchGate
Komljenovic, J. In: World Yearbook of Education 2019. London : Routledge
Chapter - Making higher education markets: trust-building strategies of private companies to enter the public sector
Komljenovic, J. 24/10/2018 In: Higher Education.
Journal article - LinkedIn, platforming labour, and the new employability mandate for universities
Komljenovic, J. 2/08/2018 In: Globalisation, Societies and Education.
Journal article - Forum Shifting and Shape Making in Higher Education Services
Robertson, S.L., Tidy, J., Komljenovic, J. 10/04/2018 In: The Idea of the University. Peter Lang p. 192-215. 24 p.
Chapter (peer-reviewed) - Non-state actors, and the advance of frontier higher education markets in the global south
Robertson, S.L., Komljenovic, J. 2018 In: Non-State Actors in Education in the Global South. London : Routledge ISBN: 9781138570672.
Chapter - Introduction: Making global education markets and trade
Komljenovic, J., Robertson, S.L. 14/07/2017 In: Globalisation, Societies and Education. 15, 3, 7 p.
Editorial - Market ordering as a device for market-making: the case of the emerging students’ recruitment industry
Komljenovic, J. 14/07/2017 In: Globalisation, Societies and Education. 15, 3, p. 367-380. 15 p.
Journal article - Non-state actors, and the advance of frontier higher education markets in the global south
Robertson, S.L., Komljenovic, J. 10/2016 In: Oxford Review of Education. 42, 5, p. 594-611. 18 p.
Journal article - The dynamics of ‘market-making’ in higher education
Komljenovic, J., Robertson, S.L. 10/03/2016 In: Journal of Education Policy. 31, 5, p. 622-636. 15 p.
Journal article - Unbundling the university and making higher education markets
Robertson, S.L., Komljenovic, J. 12/01/2016 In: World Yearbook of Education 2016. London : Routledge p. 211-227. 17 p.
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