Rasmus Harsbo is a Ph.D. candidate at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. As part of the Asserting the Nation-project headed by Associate Professor Katja Brøgger, and funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, he is working on developing a transnational analytical framework centered on the concept of neo-nationalism and investigating state-university relations in Polish and European higher education policy, including recent opposition against globalization and re-nationalizing trends in the wake of the Cold War.

Professor Marek Kwiek is part of the IRFD project serving as an external doctoral advisor and partcipating in the initial selection procedure.