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Jisun Jung is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong
Kong since September, 2015. She received a Ph.D. from Seoul National University, Korea, in
2011, and she was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. She has been
involved in the international comparative project ‘The Changing Academic Profession’ since 2009.
Her current research focuses on academic profession, doctoral education, employment and post-
graduate studies and higher education research in Asia. She is the co-editor of two special issues,
‘Higher Education Research in East Asia: Regional and National Evolution and Path-Dependencies’
in Higher Education Policy and ‘Graduate Employment and Higher Education in East Asia’ in
International Journal of Chinese Education, and also a co-editor of the book ‘The Changing
Academic Profession in Hong Kong’ published by Springer in 2017. She has many publications
in internationally refereed journals such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education,
Minerva, Tertiary Education and Management and Higher Education Quarterly and several
book chapters in Springer books. She is currently the principal investigator of the project,
‘Students’ Motivation and Expectation for Career Advancement in Self-financed Master’s
Program: Hong Kong Case’.
Hugo Horta is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong
since September 2014. After completing his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Lisbon, in 2007
(part of it performed in the Netherlands and in the United States), and a postdoctoral spell in
Tohoku University, Japan, he worked as Advisor to the Portuguese Secretary of State of the
Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, from 2010 to 2011. He also served as the
Portuguese National delegate to the ERA Steering Committee on Human Resources and Mobility
from 2010 to 2014. Throughout this period, he published articles focused on various topics in
international peer-reviewed journals in the field of Higher Education and Science and Technology
Studies. He is currently Coordinating Editor at Higher Education and sits in the advisory editorial
boards of Higher Education Policy, Asian Pacific Education Review, Journal of Higher Education
and Science and the International Journal of Institutional Research and Management (IJIRM). He
recently co-edited a book on Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education: Building
Capacity in Latin America with Manuel Heitor and Jamil Salmi.
Akiyoshi Yonezawa is Professor and Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Tohoku
University. He also serves as a Special Advisor to the President for Institutional Research and
Effectiveness. He received Ph.D. in Education from Tohoku University. With a background in
sociology, he mainly conducts research on comparative higher education policy – especially focus-
ing on world-class universities, internationalisation of higher education and public-private rela-
tionships in higher education. He established his expertise in higher education policy and
management though working experience at universities and public organisations: Nagoya
University, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation, Hiroshima
University, OECD and the University of Tokyo. He is currently serving as a board member at Japan
Society of Educational Sociology and at Japan Association for Higher Education Research. He is
a co-editor of book series Higher Education in Asia: Quality, Excellence and Governance series
(Springer Book Series).
1 Introduction: Higher Education Research as a Field of Study in Asia