Academic Direction
Benedetto Lepori
Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Benedetto Lepori is titular professor at the Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society of the Università della Svizzera italiana and senior researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology; he is the scientific director of European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO) and academic director of the Summer School in Scientific Methods in Lugano.
His research interest include: Governance and organizational structures of higher education institutions, Institutional theory, particularly institutional logics approaches and hybrid organizations, Development of data infrastructure for S&T studies, Diversity and characterization of higher education systems, Comparative analysis of national research policies and funding systems, Indicators to characterize research funding systems and higher education institutions. Professor Lepori has researched and taught extensively on scientific communication and writing, including studies of grant proposal writing, o scientific language and polysemy and argumentation.
The Summer School is supported by a Scientific Committee.
The role of the Committee is to advise on the future development of the school, possible new topics and instructors, and favour collaboration with other initiatives and schools at USI, in Switzerland, and internationally.
Current members of the Committee include:
- Colin Porlezza, USI, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
- Michael Gibbert, USI, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
- Katharina Lobinger, USI, Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society
- Eugène Horber, University of Geneva
- Max Bergman, University of Basel
- Marco Steenbergen, University of Zurich
- Benoît Rihoux, UCL Louvain and MethodsNET