Dr. Anke BURKHARDT

Institut für Hochschulforschung Wittenberg
an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Collegienstr. 62
06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany

Email: burkhardt@hof.uni-halle.de
http://www.hof.uni-halle.de

Education

1973 - 1977
Studies at the Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany; Final Diploma Examination: Engineer of Agriculture

1981 - 1985
Preparation for doctoral thesis at the Central Institute for Higher Education, Berlin, Germany; Final Examination: Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Economics, special field: educational system; doctoral thesis: "Statistical Analysis of Student's Flow"

Employment record/position held and description of duty

1977 - 1980

Controller
Employer: District Council, Bernau, Germany; Main duties: planning and controlling of industrial production in agricultural enterprises

1981

Scientific Assistant
Employer: Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany; Main duties: planning and management of university-level institutions in relation to social and economic developments, statistical analysis of students' enrolment, drop-out and success

1982 - 1991

Scientific Staff Member
Employer: Central Institute for Higher Education, Berlin, Germany; Main research subjects: international system of educational statistics, comparison of work outputs and evaluation, external effectiveness and internal efficiency in higher education and research, budgetary expenditure

1991 - 1996

Scientific Staff Member
Employer: Prof. Wagemann, University of Technology, Berlin, Germany/Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology, Bonn, Germany; Project "Renewal of Higher Education in the former GDR". The project was started in order to analyse and to document the transformation in East Germany after the unification, including government policies, democratic principles, institutional structures and networks. Recommendations concerning the replacement of academic staff, the amount of university entrances and the change of teaching contents were given to the Federal Government, the Federal Ministries and to political committees. Special promotion measures were formulated on the basis of regional studies. Guidelines for a sustainable educational capacity were developed based on information about population growth, the number of persons qualified to enter higher education and the demand of labour market. Planning estimates were designed concentrating on the quantity and the structure of academic staff needed in the future.

1996

Commissioner for Women's Rights
Employer: Fachhochschule of Public Administration and Law, Berlin, Germany; Main duties: administrative activity concerning gender equalization, promotion of female academic staff and women's research projects

1997/98

Scientific Researcher
Bavarian Institute for Planning and Research in University-Level Institutions, Munich, Germany; Main duties: implementation of control systems in university-level institutions, improvement of reporting mechanisms, creation of statistical information systems, working out of criteria/indicators for the evaluation of efficiency

Center for Research on Higher Education and Work, University of Kassel, Germany; Project "Relationship between Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Germany"; analyses of the transition from study to employment, of the field of study and occupational area, of women's situation, recruitment, employment status, income, phases of unemployment, substance of work, careers of graduates, professional preparation and demand

1998/99

Project Manager
Employer: Private Institute of Vocational Education, Salzwedel, Germany; Main duties: regional analyses of demands of the employment system and the development of special programmes for vocational education financed by the German government and the EU

since April 1999

Scientific Staff Member, since October 2001 Managing Director
Employer: Institute for Research on Higher Education at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; Main projects: structural change in university medicine, new trends in financing and management of university hospitals, higher education funding and gender budgeting, equal opportunities and gender mainstreaming in higher education

Selected publications

Burkhardt, Anke / Stein, Ruth, Heidi (1995): Women at East German Institutions of Higher Education before and after the „Wende". In: Kleinau, Elke / Opitz, Claudia (ed.): History of Women's Education in Germany. Frankfurt/New York. S. 497 - 516.

Burkhardt, Anke (1997): Female Engineers in a Phase of Radical Change - Results of Personnel Replacement at East German Universities. In: Grundy, Frances et al (ed.): Women, Work and Computerization. Spinning a Web from Past to Future. Proceedings of the 6th International IFIP-Conference. Bonn, May 24 - 27, 1997.- Berlin/Heidelberg/New York. S. 31 - 44.

Burkhardt, Anke (2000): Union for Education and Science: Data-Report ´99: Women and Girls in Education and Science. Frankfurt a. M.

Burkhardt, Anke (2000): Women Scientists - Stepchildren of the East German Reform in Higher Education? In: Krais, Beate (ed.): Academic Culture and Gender Structure. On hidden Mechanisms of the male Dominance in Academia. Frankfurt/New York. S. 171 - 194.

Burkhardt, Anke (2001): Formative to marginal - on the Position of Girls and Women in Education and Science. In: Böttcher, Wolfgang; Klemm, Klaus, Rauschenbach, Thomas (ed.) : Data on Education and Social Issues. Weinheim/München. S. 303 - 330.

Languages: German and English