Training Programme Speakers
Jake Broadhurst
Senior Partnerships Advisor, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Jake has a keen interest in using evaluation to build better university partnerships. From 2021 to 2022 he coordinated the ERASMUS+ EVALUATE project – Developing a Framework for Evaluation of International University partnerships. Working with scholars of evaluation and professional services colleagues across 6 universities in 6 countries, the project group created a Framework and Handbook. This resource is intended to help staff in university international offices, and those involved in international policy and strategy development, to improve the quality of international strategic partnerships through evaluation.
Over many years Jake has helped set up a wide range of academic-led partnerships that enable the University of Edinburgh make a more positive impact on the world. These range from multi-disciplinary responses to global challenges, a biomedical research centre in China, and a new global data institute that will grapple with the darkest corners of the internet to protect children from harm.
As chair of Future UniLab – the Una Europa alliance think-tank – Jake helps universities to explore their common future.
He has also held diverse roles in digital education, international research management and commercialisation. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, jobs included project manager for a healthcare NGO in India; and various roles in TV and film production in Spain.
Jake founded TEDxUniversityofEdinburgh, co-founded the World Access to Higher Education Day and has been awarded the University of Edinburgh Principal’s Medal for Outstanding Service. He holds a Masters of Business Administration MBA from University of Edinburgh; a MSc Applied Computing from Dundee University; and a BSc Environmental Studies from Newcastle Polytechnic.
Jake is an alumnus of the HUMANE Winter School 2022.
Nadine Burquel
Director General, HUMANE, BE
Nadine is the Director General of HUMANE. She works closely with the Chair and the governing bodies on HUMANE’s strategic developments. She manages the HUMANE Office to offer the membership an attractive portfolio of professional development and networking activities. She has been involved with HUMANE since its foundation in the mid-nineties, until December 2022 as Executive Director of the three residential schools (the Barcelona Winter School, the Berlin Summer School and the Asia School).
Nadine has extensive director level experience, having worked with multiple international non-profit organisations, university networks and international boards. She has wide knowledge of leadership, governance and management in higher education institutions, and the global trends in the higher education sector. As EFMD Director of Business School Services she was responsible for a wide portfolio of large global events and communities of practices, interacting with business schools and universities in the wider Europe, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, the Gulf, as well as North and South America. More recently in Maastricht University she was strategic adviser to the leadership of the School of Business and Economics, advising on international accreditation, the internationalisation strategy, and delivering societal impact.
She has significant experience with EU (higher) education policy and programmes since the early days of the Erasmus programme. She has a strong track record of EU projects, leading large EU-funded European university networks and providing technical assistance to the European Commission. She is high level EU policy expert, working at system level in Brussels and beyond, carrying out capacity building and evaluations of EU interventions, having worked with EU Delegations in many countries.
Rodrigo Costas
Senior researcher and bibliometric consultant, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, NL
Rodrigo Costas is a senior researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
Rodrigo is also an Extraordinary Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) of Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science from the CSIC in Spain. His areas of expertise include the fields of information science, scientometrics, and social media metrics.
His work focuses on developing new theoretical and analytical approaches to understand the interactions between science and society. Some of his research topics include the development of novel scientometric approaches to study the global academic workforce, particularly the mobility flows of scientific researchers, and the study of funding acknowledgments. In addition to his research activities, Rodrigo is also involved in several European and international research projects, and he is a member of the CWTS UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science.
He is also an Associate Editor of the journal Quantitative Science Studies.
Carole de Bordes
Researcher, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, NL
Carole is a researcher and bibliometric consultant at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
She is a Msc graduate of International Development Studies at the University of Wageningen (the Netherlands) specialised in Environmental Social Sciences. She is generally passionate about science, network analysis and societal impact.
Carole joined CWTS in 2018 and is currently involved in several performance and evaluation studies for independent contract research at CWTS B.V.
She is also involved in coordinating and managing research institute projects.
Shauna Hughes
Global Director of Global Relations, University Partnerships and Mobility, University College Dublin, IE
Shauna Hughes is the Director of Global Relations, Partnerships and Mobility at UCD Global.
She leads on the development of existing and new global relations and guides UCD’s academic leaders in developing partnerships and supporting mobility initiatives.
Shauna works in partnership with Una Watkins, Director of International Student Recruitment, to provide the vision, strategic leadership and management of UCD Global to realise the ambitions set out in UCD’s Global Engagement Strategy 2021-2024.
Johanna Kolhinen
Head of Services at Research Services, The University of Helsinki, FI
Johanna Kolhinen, born in 1977, earned her MSc in Economics in 2002 and her Doctorate in Science in Economics, specializing in Management and Organisations, in 2015. Since 2004, she has continuously worked in various roles dedicated to the advancement of university management, administration, and evaluations within the Finnish Higher Education sector.
From 2010 to 2018, Dr. Kolhinen held the position of Evaluation Expert at the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre, where she led several Quality System Audits to provide the compulsory quality certification for higher education institutions in Finland. She also developed thematic evaluation frameworks for entrepreneurship and education organizations’ entrepreneurial initiatives.
In early 2018, Dr. Kolhinen joined the University of Helsinki (UH) as a Senior Advisor on the Research Assessment (RAUH) project, tasked with revising the research assessment framework to align with the enhancement-led approach and balance qualitative and quantitative, responsible assessment approaches. Since 2020, she has led internal evaluation projects, including the HiLIFE 2020 institute review and the analysis of UH’s operational structures and management systems (TOIJO). Additionally, from 2020 to 2023, she took part in the Erasmus+ funded international evaluation development project EVALUATE.
Currently, as Head of Services at UH Research Services, Dr. Kolhinen leads a unit of 12 Senior Advisors, each responsible for providing strategic research management support to faculty leadership and overseeing research integrity procedures. She represents UH as the point of contact for the Coalition of Responsible Research Assessment (CoARA), which UH endorsed and joined in 2022. She also works as an in-house coach supporting individuals, groups and teams in academic leadership development.
Since 2020, she has chaired the national research assessment working group for Higher Education Institutions under the Finnish Association of Research Managers and Administrators (Finn-ARMA).
Melissa Koops
Head International Affairs Unit, Leiden University, NL
Melissa Koops is Head International Affairs and leads on international strategy development at Leiden University. She oversees the university’s strategic partnerships portfolio and leads on the development of university wide global initiatives and programs. She serves as an advisor to the Executive Board on the university’s international engagement strategy.
Melissa is a driven international relations professional with extensive experience in the public sector and international organisations. She has over twenty years of cross-cultural experience working on international higher education and research projects in Australia and Europe.
Her areas of expertise: higher education and research policy, international partnerships and mobility, building platforms for international exchange of good practice, researcher development and career progression, strategy development.
Anna-Maria Salmi
Head of Services, International Affairs, The University of Helsinki, FI
Dr. Anna-Maria Salmi supports the University of Helsinki’s leadership team in its strategic internationalisation and works as Head of Services, leading the University’s International Affairs. She is also responsible for the University’s international strategic partnerships.
Dr. Salmi has a long track record of university administration, strategic development and building international co-operation. In the recent years, she has been part of a team developing evaluation practices for partnerships.
By background she is a sociologist and scholar in Russian studies, with a PhD from the University of Helsinki (2006). She is an Alumna of the 2017 EFMD-HUMANE Asia-Pacific School in Hong Kong and the 2023 Winter School in Barcelona.
Leonie van Drooge
Evaluation expert, LvD Impact and Evaluation, NL
Leonie van Drooge is an expert in the governance, organisation and evaluation of research. She has worked with and for research performing organisations, research funding organisations, and research infrastructures.
Leonie is self-employed since 2023. Clients of LvD Impact & Evaluation include a medical charity, a national science council and universities in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe. Projects include the evaluation of an advisory body and the development of an evaluation framework.
Previously she worked as senior project manager at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University and as senior researcher at the Rathenau Instituut for research and dialogue relating to the societal aspects of science, innovation and technology.
Leonie van Drooge led the development of the EVALUATE framework.
Niki Vermeulen
Professor and Director International, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Professor Niki Vermeulen is based in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh and visiting researcher at CWTS Leiden University. She specialises in science and innovation policy and the organisation of research, with an emphasis on research collaboration, investigating the interaction between epistemic and social transformations, analysing new ways of doing research as well as the political and institutional structures in which research is performed.
Niki also has a particular interest in the geography and architecture of collaboration, investigating the places in and across which people are working together. Research into collaboration is embedded in broader knowledge of developments in research and innovation policy, including the changing roles of universities; impact and public engagement; innovative clusters; research infrastructures; projectification of science; evaluation of research; responsible metrics; and careers of (ECR) researchers.
Next to her academic positions, she has experience as a policy advisor and consultant in science policy. Currently she is Director International for the School for Social and Political Sciences of the University of Edinburgh, involved in the establishment of a variety of partnerships including the Global Futures Hub in The Hague, and she is working to further expand the Evaluate framework to explicitly attend to the building of equitable global partnerships together with the UNESCO Chair of Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science.