Mathies Charles, Academy Research Fellow

Charles Mathies is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow based at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research. His research currently is focused on international student migration and mobility in Finland and Europe. Dr. Mathies sits on the editorial boards for Tertiary Education and Management journal (TEAM) and New Directions in Institutional Research (NDIR). He previously has held multiple university management positions in Europe and the United States primarily focused on strategic planning, data analytics, and institutional research. Dr. Mathies has published, taught, consulted and facilitated workshops globally on topics ranging from international student migration and mobility to higher education policy, strategic planning and institutional data management. In 2015 he was named a Global Ambassador for the Association for Institutional Research AIR Forum (https://www.airweb.org/).

Research Interests:

International student migration and mobility

Higher education data usage and analytics

Strategic planning in higher education

Education policy and data - quantitative modeling (applied) and evaluation

Research Teams:

Educational systems and society research area

Higher education studies team (HIEST)

Migration, mobilities and internationalization (miGroup)

Selected recent publications:

Mathies, C. (2018). Uses and Misuses of Data. In K. L. Webber (Ed.), Building Capacity in Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education (pp. 95-111). Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, 4. Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71162-1_7

Mathies, C., & Ferland, C. (2017). Innovative Strategic Planning for the Institution. In K. Powers, & P. J. Scholss (Eds.), Organization and Administration in Higher Education (pp. 105-122). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Chen, P. D., & Mathies, C. (2016). Assessment, Evaluation, and Research. New Directions for Higher Education, 2016 (175), 85-92. doi:10.1002/he.20202

Mathies, C. (2016). Going the extra mile: Data driven international degree programme evaluation. EAIE Forum, 2016 (Summer), 26-28.

Mathies, C. (2015). Transnational IR collaborations. In Institutional Research and Planning in Higher Education : Global Contexts and Themes (pp. 28-39). New York: Routledge.

Kauppinen, I., Mathies, C., & Weimer, L. (2014). Developing a Conceptual Model to Study the International Student Market. In B. Cantwell, & I. Kauppinen (Eds.), Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization(pp. 246-264). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mathies, C., & Ferland, C. (2014). The fundamentals of tracking students. Journal of the European Higher Education Area, 2014 (2), 95-116. (DOI)

Mathies, C. & Slaughter, S. (2013) University trustees as channels between academe and industry: Toward an understanding of the executive science network. Research Policy. 42, 1286-1300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2013.03.003

Mathies, C. & Välimaa, J. (2013). Is there a need for a European institutional research? Tertiary Education and Management. 19 (1) 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2012.747558

Calderon, A. & Mathies, C. (2013) Institutional research in the future, challenges within higher education and need for excellence in professional practice. In Angel Calderon and Karen Webber (Eds.) Global perspectives on institutional research: Relevant issues for today and considerations for the future. New Directions for Institutional Research. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. 157, 77-90. DOI: 10.1002/ir.20040