Samenvatting

In many European countries, higher education institutions outside the university sector now have a formal mandate to perform research related to regional needs and the improvement of education and professional practice (Kyvik & Lepori, 2010). The term 'new universities' will be used for those institutions. In our study, we focus on the expansion of academics’ role portfolios at new universities, researcher roles alongside teacher roles. The guiding research question study was: In what different ways do research and teaching active academics understand their roles and role transitions as a consequence of expanding their role portfolio with researcher roles?