Merli Tamtik
Biographic Data
| ID | 799258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merli Tamtik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merli |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamtik |
| SIGNATURE | TAMTIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6148-5484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Knowledge Informs Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policies? Perspectives from Canadian Colleges
Selling out the Public University? Administrative Sensemaking Strategies for Internationalization via Private Pathway Colleges in Canadian Higher Education
The emergence of agreements between private pathway colleges and public English-medium institutions represents a new development in internationalization that further challenges the public higher education landscape. While these institutional arrangements are controversial and often criticized, university senior administrators have been successfully able to advocate for and authorize them. This paper takes a closer look into the reasoning that adm…
Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education Governance: Decolonizing the Ivory Tower
Indigenous innovation and organizational change towards equitable higher education systems: The Canadian experience
Indigenous knowledges are largely absent from higher education institutions’ efforts to pursue excellence and innovation. Grounded in decolonization literature and institutional theory, this article examines how Indigenous peoples of Canada have engaged with innovation discourses in higher education. Through document analysis of 15 research-intensive Canadian universities and conversation with 13 Indigenous peoples, the article analyses political…
Federal Servants of Inclusion? The Governance of Student Mobility in Canada and the EU
Student mobility constitutes a core pillar of higher education internationalisation. Reflecting wider global trends, Canada and the EU have increasingly prioritised equity and inclusion in their student mobility programmes. Canada’s Global Skills Opportunity programme, launched in 2021, provides federal funding specifically to low-income students, students with disabilities, and Indigenous students. The EU’s Erasmus Programme has a long-standing …
The political process of international education: Complementarities and clashes in the Manitoba K-12 sector through a multi-level governance lens
International education has become a policy sector of growing importance to Canada. With increased government regulations, disconnect is often observed between the intended policy outcomes and practice. This study aims to explain this disconnect by analyzing the heterogeneity among stakeholder interests. It focuses on 1) distribution of authority; 2) heterogeneity of values; and 3) complementarities and clashes in policy issues. A multi-level gov…
Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities. A Focus on Estonian Higher Education: Edited by Josep Soler, Boston/Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2019
"Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities. A Focus on Estonian Higher Education." European Education, 52(2), pp. 180–181
Administering higher education policies in the Baltic states: Balancing the language demands in multilingual society
Along with increased international migration, many nation-states are facing the dilemma of embracing a multi-cultural and multi-lingual society while protecting their cultural and linguistic heritage. Non-Anglophone universities are often the sites of this struggle as they aim to become world-class international universities operating largely in English, yet strive to reinforce national identities through language policies. This paper examines hi…
Institutional Change Through Policy Learning: The Case of the European Commission and Research Policy
Research initiatives to enhance knowledge‐based societies demand regionally coordinated policy approaches. By analyzing the case of the European Commission, Directorate‐General Research and Innovation, this study focuses on examining the cognitive mechanisms that form the foundation for institutional transformations and result in leadership positions in regional governance. Drawing on policy learning theories, the study emphasizes specific mechan…
The Role of Experts in the European Union's Research Policy
This research analyzes the role of experts in the European Union's policy‐making process. Focusing on the field of research policy, this study seeks to probe how expert participation in the Open Method of Coordination informs policy decisions. The paper reports on an analysis of the expert group in the European Internationalization Strategy in Science and Technology. Our analysis reveals the dynamics of expert participation at the micro level, as…
Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education Governance: Decolonizing the Ivory Tower
Institutional Change Through Policy Learning: The Case of the European Commission and Research Policy
Research initiatives to enhance knowledge‐based societies demand regionally coordinated policy approaches. By analyzing the case of the European Commission, Directorate‐General Research and Innovation, this study focuses on examining the cognitive mechanisms that form the foundation for institutional transformations and result in leadership positions in regional governance. Drawing on policy learning theories, the study emphasizes specific mechan…
The Role of Experts in the European Union's Research Policy
This research analyzes the role of experts in the European Union's policy‐making process. Focusing on the field of research policy, this study seeks to probe how expert participation in the Open Method of Coordination informs policy decisions. The paper reports on an analysis of the expert group in the European Internationalization Strategy in Science and Technology. Our analysis reveals the dynamics of expert participation at the micro level, as…
The Role of Experts in the European Union's Research Policy
This research analyzes the role of experts in the European Union's policy‐making process. Focusing on the field of research policy, this study seeks to probe how expert participation in the Open Method of Coordination informs policy decisions. The paper reports on an analysis of the expert group in the European Internationalization Strategy in Science and Technology. Our analysis reveals the dynamics of expert participation at the micro level, as…
Institutional Change Through Policy Learning: The Case of the European Commission and Research Policy
Research initiatives to enhance knowledge‐based societies demand regionally coordinated policy approaches. By analyzing the case of the European Commission, Directorate‐General Research and Innovation, this study focuses on examining the cognitive mechanisms that form the foundation for institutional transformations and result in leadership positions in regional governance. Drawing on policy learning theories, the study emphasizes specific mechan…
Administering higher education policies in the Baltic states: Balancing the language demands in multilingual society
Along with increased international migration, many nation-states are facing the dilemma of embracing a multi-cultural and multi-lingual society while protecting their cultural and linguistic heritage. Non-Anglophone universities are often the sites of this struggle as they aim to become world-class international universities operating largely in English, yet strive to reinforce national identities through language policies. This paper examines hi…
The political process of international education: Complementarities and clashes in the Manitoba K-12 sector through a multi-level governance lens
International education has become a policy sector of growing importance to Canada. With increased government regulations, disconnect is often observed between the intended policy outcomes and practice. This study aims to explain this disconnect by analyzing the heterogeneity among stakeholder interests. It focuses on 1) distribution of authority; 2) heterogeneity of values; and 3) complementarities and clashes in policy issues. A multi-level gov…
Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities. A Focus on Estonian Higher Education: Edited by Josep Soler, Boston/Berlin, De Gruyter Mouton, 2019
"Language Policy and the Internationalization of Universities. A Focus on Estonian Higher Education." European Education, 52(2), pp. 180–181
Indigenous innovation and organizational change towards equitable higher education systems: The Canadian experience
Indigenous knowledges are largely absent from higher education institutions’ efforts to pursue excellence and innovation. Grounded in decolonization literature and institutional theory, this article examines how Indigenous peoples of Canada have engaged with innovation discourses in higher education. Through document analysis of 15 research-intensive Canadian universities and conversation with 13 Indigenous peoples, the article analyses political…
Federal Servants of Inclusion? The Governance of Student Mobility in Canada and the EU
Student mobility constitutes a core pillar of higher education internationalisation. Reflecting wider global trends, Canada and the EU have increasingly prioritised equity and inclusion in their student mobility programmes. Canada’s Global Skills Opportunity programme, launched in 2021, provides federal funding specifically to low-income students, students with disabilities, and Indigenous students. The EU’s Erasmus Programme has a long-standing …
Selling out the Public University? Administrative Sensemaking Strategies for Internationalization via Private Pathway Colleges in Canadian Higher Education
The emergence of agreements between private pathway colleges and public English-medium institutions represents a new development in internationalization that further challenges the public higher education landscape. While these institutional arrangements are controversial and often criticized, university senior administrators have been successfully able to advocate for and authorize them. This paper takes a closer look into the reasoning that adm…
Indigenous Peoples and Higher Education Governance: Decolonizing the Ivory Tower
What Knowledge Informs Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policies? Perspectives from Canadian Colleges
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Higher education (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Internationalization (4 works)