Ingjerd Thon Hagaseth is Associate Professor in Organization, Leadership and Innovation at NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She describes herself as a pracademic, combining extensive leadership experience from education and public services with teaching, research and educational development in higher education. She leads development work on flexible and online study programmes at NTNU, with a particular interest in student engagement, progression, learning design and the balance between flexibility and structure in online education.