Current Publications
Journal Articles
Leišytė, L., Načinović Braje, I., Shulamit, A., Baysan, S., Carvalho, T., Daunoraitė, D., Diogo, S., Papaioannou, P., Farmaki, A., Feldman, S., Külcür, R., Matijošytė, I., Pralgauskaitė, S., & Šatkovskienė, D. (in press). Early career researchers as stakeholders in university decision-making in Europe: Comparative perspectives. Social Inclusion, 14.
Leišytė, L., Deem, R., & Načinović Braje, I. (Eds.). (in press). Diversity and change agents in higher education [Thematic issue]. Social Inclusion, 14.
Mergner, J., Pekşen, S., & Leišytė, L. (2025). Intersectionality at German universities: Teaching staff as change agents with higher education didactic workshops. Social Inclusion, 14, Article 9829. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.9829
Papaioannou, P. (2025). The relation of MOOC's to Quadruple Helix Innovation Model. Journal of Research and Innovation in Higher Education, 5(2), 1–26. Online available
Zenkienė, L., & Leišytė, L. (2024). Strengthening university capacity in regional innovation ecosystem through the participation in the European Universities initiative. European Journal of Higher Education, 14(sup1), 88–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2024.2410358
Papaioannou, P. (2024). The participation of early career researchers in the decision-making bodies of a German university. Postcolonial Directions in Education, 13(1), 188–213. Online available
Books
Leišytė, L., Dee, J. R., & van der Meulen, B. J. R. (Eds.) (2023). Research handbook on the transformation of higher education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Contents and further information
Broucker, B., De Wit, K., Verhoeven, J. C., & Leišytė, L. (Eds.). (2019). Higher education system reform: An international comparison after twenty years of Bologna. Leiden: Brill Sense. Contents and further information
Leišytė, L., & Wilkesmann, U. (Eds.). (2016). Organizing academic work in higher education: Teaching, learning, and identities. London: Routledge. Contents and further information
Žostautienė, D., Susnienė, D., & Leišytė, L. (Eds.). (2016). CISABE'2016. 6th International Conference on Changes in Social and Business Environment, April 28-29, 2016, Panevėžys, Lithuania. Pianoro, Bologna: Medimond. Contents and further information
Book Chapters
Leišytė, L. (in press). Digital platforms and their usage in higher education human resource management. In V. Laterza & D. A. Thomas (Eds.), Varieties of platformisation: Critical perspectives on EdTech in higher education. Palgrave Macmillan.
Rose, A.-L., Papaioannou, P., Pekşen, S., Stolz, K., & Leišytė, L. (2025). Innovating business education through flipped classroom in Germany: liminal spaces and experiential learning. In M. A. Eklund & K. Graham (Eds.), Flipping the classroom with experiential and community-engaged learning in business: High-impact teaching practices in business education, volume 2 (pp. 209–224). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035321629.00023
Leišytė, L. (2025). Higher education policy. In M. van Gerven, C. Rothmayr Allison, & K. Schubert (Eds.), Encyclopedia of public policy (Living reference work). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_63-1
Leišytė, L., & Rose, A.-L. (2024). Academic identities. In F. Darbellay (Ed.), Elgar encyclopedia of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity (pp. 1–4). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317967.ch01
Dee, J. R., Leišytė, L., & van der Meulen, B. J. R. (2023). Conceptualizing higher education transformation: introduction to the Research Handbook on the Transformation of Higher Education. In L. Leišytė, J. R. Dee, & B. J. R. van der Meulen (Eds.), Research handbook on the transformation of higher education (pp. 2–22). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378216.00006
Leišytė, L. (2023). Passive and active resistance to performance pressures among academics in UK universities. In L. Leišytė, J. R. Dee, & B. J. R. van der Meulen (Eds.), Research handbook on the transformation of higher education (pp. 351–365). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378216.00033
Leišytė, L., Dee, J. R., & van der Meulen, B. J. R. (2023). Unpacking transformation in higher education and framing a future research agenda. In L. Leišytė, J. R. Dee, & B. J. R. van der Meulen (Eds.), Research handbook on the transformation of higher education (pp. 417–430). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378216.00038
Leišytė, L., & Gozlan, C. (2023). The emergence of academic resistance platforms against new public management: towards "new" forms of movement organizing? In L. Leišytė, J. R. Dee, & B. J. R. van der Meulen (Eds.), Research handbook on the transformation of higher education (pp. 127–141). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378216.00016