Freelance educational policy analyst. I am the outgoing international project leader for EUROSTUDENT V, which ends in May 2015. I am also working on the topic of Open Educational Resources for the OECD as external consultant. For over a decade I was employed as a senior researcher at the German Centre for Research into Higher Education and Science Studies (Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung) in Hanover. My specialist areas of interest are comparative studies on higher education, funding and quality assurance, and social dimensions of European higher education reform. My undergraduate studies were completed at Southbank University in London and I graduated from the..