Sharon Rider is Professor of Philosophy at Uppsala University. Her publications in English include World Class Universities: A Contested Concept (with M. A. Peters, M. Hyvönen & T. Besley, 2021), Post-truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity and Higher Education (with M. A. Peters, M. Hyvönen & T. Besley, 2018), Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: The Breakdown of Scientific Thought (with Y. Hasselberg & A. Waluszewski, 2013) and numerous articles on cultural epistemology.