Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Universities and the Matter of Mattering -- Making Universities Matter -- The Matter of Mattering -- Mattering Through Collaboration, Engagement, and Impact -- References -- Engaging in Societal Collaboration Through Reflexivity: Experiences from a Cross-Disciplinary Pilot Course for Faculty -- Introduction -- Means for Strengthening a Scholarship of Societal Collaboration Through Reflexivity -- Course Content and Outline -- Method -- Results -- Theorizing Collaboration-the Value of Having Access to a "Smorgasbord" -- An Opportunity for Reflection and Reflexivity -- A Need to Transform Knowledge into Practice -- Concluding Discussion: A Need for Space and Engagement -- Appendix 1: Interview Guide -- References -- Proximity and Inequality in Academia -- Introduction -- Defining Inequality in Academia -- Method -- Proximity and Inequality in Academia -- Geographical Proximity -- Cognitive Proximity -- Social Proximity -- Organizational Proximity -- Institutional Proximity -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Conceptualizing Scholar-Activism Through Scholar-Activist Accounts -- Introduction -- Methodological Reflections -- Method of the Study -- Data Collection -- Defining Features and Concepts -- Parallel Concepts -- Criticality -- Active Engagement -- Normative Orientation -- Intellectual Influences -- Critical Geography -- The Feminist Perspective -- Popular and Critical Education Influences -- Critical Social Theory -- Discussion -- Scholar-Activism Conceptualized -- Scholar-Activism's Intellectual Roots -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1 -- References -- How Promotion Guidelines Reflect Swedish Higher Education Institutions' Societal Collaboration Strategies -- Introduction -- HEI Strategies and Promotion Guidelines Related to Societal Collaboration -- Societal Collaboration Strategies and Promotion.

Aspects of Societal Collaboration -- Empirical Context-Swedish HEIs, Societal Collaboration, and the Role of Docentship -- Methods and Material -- Different Types of Societal Collaboration -- Analysis -- Misalignment Between Strategies, Intentions, and Promotion Guidelines -- Variation Regarding the Role of Societal Collaboration Merits in the Guidelines -- Few HEIs Meet Explicit Intentions in the Strategy to Work with Collaboration in Merit Processes -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Will the Center Hold? What Research Centers Do to Universities and to Societal Challenges -- Introduction: Centers and Universities -- What is a Center? -- Centers in Their Settings: Summary Points -- Empirics: Six Centers and Their Evolution -- The Electronics Center: A Center in a Network -- The Biotechnology Center: The Assisted Linear Model as Ideal -- The Working Life Center: A Center Without a Center -- The Transportation Center: Localized Success -- The Vehicle Center: A Moderate Success -- The Logistics Center: The Center that Never Was -- Conclusions: The Impact of Centers -- References -- Governing by Organizing: The Context of Universities in Sweden -- Introduction -- Metagovernance and Governing by Organizing -- Governing by Organizing-the Swedish University Sector -- Three Major Reforms in the Swedish University Sector -- Five Strategies of Governing by Organizing -- Storytelling -- Creating Formal Organizations -- Fostering Competition -- Positioning -- Distancing -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Responsive Research Quality Articulations of the Humanities -- Introduction: Narratives of Neglect -- Co-produced and Responsive Research Quality Articulations -- Responsive Research Quality Articulations in the Knowledge Society -- Research Quality as a Matter of Disciplinary Expertise -- Responsive Evaluations in the Humanities.

Experimenting with "Top-Down" Humanities Quality Evaluation -- Production Results and Citations for International Comparisons -- A Range of Views on the Humanities and Quality -- Humanities Quality as Something Particularly Complex -- Resources for Quality in National Research Policy -- Concluding Discussion -- References -- Sources of Policy: Knowledge Brokering in Governmental Reports -- Introduction: Forms of Impact, Ways of Mattering -- The Politics, Uniformation, and Interaction of Knowledge -- Successive Regimes of Knowledge Politics -- Two Kinds of Scientific Uniformity: Text Types and Languages of Publishing -- Nordic Modes of Science-policy Interaction -- Key Conceptualizations: Agency in Knowledge Production, Uptake, and Brokering -- Methodological Procedure -- Findings -- Variations in Language Use and Reference Type -- Detailed Analysis of Scholarly References -- Implications: Mattering Through Agentive Brokering -- Final Remarks -- Appendix 1. Studied SOUs -- References -- Valorizing the Humanities: Impact Stories, Acting Spaces, and Meandering Knowledge Flows -- Introduction -- Objective, Approach, and Organization of the Chapter -- Research on Humanities Valorization and Impact-A Brief Review -- Three Historical Impact Stories -- Case 1: "Cultivated, Simple and Comprehensible": Plain Language in Sweden -- Case 2: Bilingualism Research and the Introduction of Mother Tongue Instruction -- Case 3: Allan Etzler and the Demise of Racist Roma Studies -- Meandering Knowledge Flows Through Acting Spaces -- Meandering Knowledge Flows: The Winding Features of Valorization -- Acting Space: Conditions of Value Ascriptions -- Concluding Discussion: Humanities Matter -- References.