Making Universities Matter

Pauline Mattsson, Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden, specializes in R&D management, STI policies, and knowledge transfer. With experience as a consultant, policy maker, and Euroscience vice president, she explores the scientific discovery process.Eugenia Perez Vico, Associate Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden, focuses on the relationship between universities and society in sustainability transitions. Serving on the Swedish Knowledge Foundation board and involved in policy development, her research delves into the role of this relationship.Linus Salö, Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden, examines how the human sciences influence policy-making and the sociolinguistic aspects of academia's internationalization. As Director of the humanities-oriented think tank Humtank, he advocates for the humanities' position within university life.

• ​Chapter 1. Introduction: Universities and the matter of mattering (Pauline Mattsson).- Chapter 2. Engaging in societal collaboration through reflexivity: Experiences from a cross-disciplinary pilot course for faculty (Anna Jonsson).- Chapter 3. Proximity and Inequality in Academia (Annika Ralfs).- Chapter 4. Conceptualizing Scholar-Activism Through Scholar-Activist Accounts (Farzana Bashiri).- Chapter 5. How promotion guidelines reflect Swedish higher education institutions’ societal collaboration strategies (Eugenia Perez Vico).- Chapter 6. Will the center hold? What research centers do to universities and to societal challenges (Mats Benner).- Chapter 7. Governing by organizing: The context of universities in Sweden (Ulrika Bjare).- Chapter 8. Responsive Research Quality Articulations of the Humanities (Klara Müller).- Chapter 9. Sources of policy: Knowledge brokering in governmental reports (Linus Salö).- Chapter 10. Valorizing the humanities: Impact stories, acting spaces, and meandering knowledge flows (Eugenia Perez Vico)