Associate Professor
Søren Bengsten

Søren S. E. Bengtsen is an Associate Professor, PhD, at the Department of Educational Philosophy and General Education, Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also the Co-Director of the research centre ‘Centre for Higher Education Futures’ (CHEF). Bengtsen is a founding member and current Chair of the international academic association Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES), Board member of the Danish Network for Educational Development in Higher Education, and a Co-Coordinator of the European Special Interest Group ‘Researcher Education and Careers’ (as the new Coordinator Elect) under The European Association for Research into Learning and Instruction (EARLI).

He serves on the editorial board on the journals Teaching in Higher Education and Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education and is a former editorial board member of the journal Higher Education Quarterly. Also, he is Series Editor on the Routledge book series World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education (together with Ronald Barnett and Nuraan Davids), and the Springer book series Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives (together with Ronald Barnett). His main research areas include the philosophy of higher education, educational philosophy, higher education policy and practice, and doctoral education and supervision. Bengtsen’s recent books include The University Becoming. Perspectives from Philosophy and Social Theory (Springer, 2021, co-edited with Wesley Shumar and Sarah Robinson), The Hidden Curriculum in Doctoral Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, co-authored with Dely L. Elliot, Kay Guccione, and Sofie Kobayashi), Knowledge and the University. Re-claiming Life (Routledge, 2019, co-authored with Ronald Barnett), The Thinking University. A Philosophical Examination of Thought and Higher Education (Springer, 2019, co-edited with Ronald Barnett), and Doctoral Supervision. Organization and Dialogue (Aarhus University Press, 2016).