Dr Janja Komljenovic
Senior Lecturer in Education Futures
- Digital Education
- Institute for Education, Community and Society
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Contact details
- Email: j.komljenovic@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1 Lauriston Pl, Edinburgh
- City
- Post code
- EH3 9EF
Background
I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Futures at the Centre for Research in Digital Education. My research focuses on the political economy of higher education digitalisation; the digitalisation, datafication, and platformisation of universities; and new forms of economic and social value in digital higher education. My approach intersects economic sociology, science and technology studies, and higher education research. I have published internationally on higher education policy, higher education markets, and educational technology. I act 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.
Qualifications
PhD, 2016, University of Bristol
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Responsibilities & affiliations
Present:
- Programme Director, MSc in Digital Education
- Editor, Critical Studies in Education
- Governance Group Member, Open Book Futures
- Co-Convenor, Digital University Network, Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHA)
- Advisory Board Member, Centre for Global Higher Education, University of Oxford and University College London
- Appeals Committee Member, European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR)
- Evaluator of national quality assurance agencies, European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)
Past:
- Management Committee Member, Centre for Global Higher Education, University of Oxford and University College London
- Advisory Board Member, ESRC/NRF project - The Unbundled University: Researching digital technology and emerging models in unequal landscapes
- Council Member, Observatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum
Postgraduate teaching
On the MSc in Digital Education, I lead the Digital Education: Data.
Learn more about the Data course.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
- Digitalisation, platformisation and datafication of universities
- Political economy of education digitalisation
- Policy and governance of technology and digital data in higher education
- Assetisation and the social, economic, legal and cultural dimensions of digitalisation
- Digital markets and digital economy in education, EdTech industry, EdTech actors
- Privatisation and commercialisation of higher education
Current project grants
Co-Investigator: The Digital Data Value Paradox, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada. Principal Investigator: Kean Birch
Past project grants
Principal Investigator: Universities and Unicorns: building digital assets in the higher education industry. Economic and Social Research Council.
Senior Research Associate: Centre for Global Higher Education, ESRC and HEFCE large research centre.
Research Fellow: European Commission FP7 People program: Marie Curie Initial Training Network UNIKE (Universities in Knowledge Economies).
Co-Researcher: Differentiation, Equity, Productivity: the social and economic consequences of expanded and differentiated higher education systems – internationalisation aspects, accepted by European Science Foundation and funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.
Principal Investigator: Employability of graduates of the University of Ljubljana. Funder: University of Ljubljana.
Principal Investigator: Bologna Process Reform at the University of Ljubljana. Funder: University of Ljubljana.
Co-Researcher: Thematic review of Tempus structural measures. Funder: The Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission.