Didi Griffioenis Professor and Head of Department of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. Griffioen is a Comenius Leadership Fellow granted by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and was the first Principal Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy appointed in the Netherlands. She is the former chair of the Higher Education special interest group of the Netherlands Educational Research Association (VOR-HO), and a former trustee and member of the Governing Council of the British Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE).