Prof Dr Dr Theodor Leiber

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Areas of expertise and current focus

Methods of empirical social research and data analysis; evaluation research and impact evaluation; quality management systems (quality assurance and quality development) and organizational development in universities; models of performance measurement and governance of universities; project management at European level

January 2025 until December 2027

Project manager in the Horizon project “European Youth in Education and in Transition to the Labor Market (EDU-LAB)

Since 2021

Member of the Commission for Research Information in Germany (KFiD, Kommission für Forschungsinformationen in Deutschland (KFiD)) of the Joint Science Conference (GWK, Gemeinsamen Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK))

June 2021 until May 2023

Project manager in a project funded by the European Commission to further develop the digital skills of teachers in universities (ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership “Enhancing the Development of Educators' Digital Competencies” (→ EDUDIG)

Since 2021

Member of the Executive Board of ERIEC (European Research Infrastructure Evaluation Consortium, https://www.eriec.eu)

December 2019 until November 2022

Project manager in a project funded by the European Commission on the principles of conception and design of teaching-learning spaces in higher education institutions (ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership “Learning and Teaching Space in Higher Education” (→ LTSHE)

December 2017 until November 2020

Coordinator of a project funded by the European Commission on governance and management of performance data in learning and teaching including performance indicator set and performance data ethics (ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership “Sustainable Quality Enhancement in Higher Education Learning and Teaching. Integrative Core Dataset and Performance Data Analytics” (→ SQELT)

October 2013 until September 2016

Coordinator of a project funded by the European Commission to evaluate the impact of external quality assurance at universities (EACEA-LLP project “Impact Analysis of External Quality Assurance Processes of Higher Education Institutions” (→ IMPALA)

Since 2010/11

Member of the working groups “Methods in Evaluation” and “Universities” of DeGEval (Society for Evaluation e.V.)