Introduction

Abstract

This chapter introduces the main themes of the book as well as the two research projects it draws upon. The focus is especially on changes in the conditions under which higher education operates and the practices through which it fulfills its main tasks with respect to the transmission and production of knowledge, that is, education and research. Within this wider frame we take specific interest in how knowledge is rearranged and worked with at different levels in higher education, and what these processes imply for steering actors, academics and students alike.