In a new edition of Austral Investiga, Julio Durand, director of the Doctorate in Higher University Education , reflects on academic life, the importance of university research and his commitment to institutional strengthening.

“Universities are institutions that can provide an enormous service to society,” says Julio Durand, director of the Doctoral Program in Higher Education, in a new episode of Austral Investiga . In this interview, he shares his academic and professional journey, as well as his vision of the role of universities in the current context.

Durand began his career in administration at Universidad AustralThere, encouraged by the architect Carlos Pujadas, he became interested in academic management. This interest led him to pursue a doctorate at the University of Navarra, focusing on the departmental structure of universities and the management functions of department heads.

“University life fascinates me,” she affirms. Driven by this enthusiasm, she currently directs the doctoral program in the Universidad Australconvinced that research, dialogue and pluralism are fundamental pillars for addressing society's most complex challenges.

“The university is the ideal setting to promote interdisciplinary work and contribute to coexistence,” he points out. In that sense, Durand emphasizes the role that university institutions can play in recovering the prestige that Argentine higher education once held in the world.

Towards the end of the interview, she expresses her wish that the Universidad Austral contribute to that collective mission: “If we have also managed to do so with our research on higher education, on the purpose that universities should have, I think that I will have contributed in some way to making this world a little better.”

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