Our people

Justyna Bandola-Gill

Associate, CHET

Email: j.e.bandola-gill@bham.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Birmingham

Dr Justyna Bandola-Gill is an Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Justyna works in the area of higher education and research policy. Her research explores the cultural, institutional and political effects of measurement and evaluation.

Justyna has a particular interest in the evolving evaluation principles (for example, the research impact agenda) and their impact on the broader academic cultures. She is currently leading a project exploring the emergence of ‘research culture’ as a governable object.

Martin W Bauer

Associate, CHET

Email: m.bauer@lse.ac.uk

Profile at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Martin read Psychology and Economic History (Bern, Zurich and London) and joined LSE in the mid-1990s, after a post-doctoral fellowship at the Science Museum London. A former Head of the LSE Methodology Department (2008-2010), he currently directs the MSc Social and Public Communication. He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Public Understanding of Science (2009-2016) and a regular academic visitor in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Campinas and Rio) and recently also to China, where he co-directs the Centre for Study of Science Cultures, an LSE-NAIS-Tsinghua University venture in Beijing. Martin is an International Fellow of ‘acatech’ (German Academic of Technical Sciences).

His research focus is the relationship between science and common sense (‘sensus communis’) through theoretical elaboration and comparative research using national surveys, mass media monitoring and also qualitative enquires. He analysed public controversies over Biotechnology in the 1990s, and he is currently working with colleagues across Europe, India, China, Africa, North and South America on a global database to construct indicators of local ‘science cultures’ (www.MORE-PE.com/ & https://poiesis-project.eu/). He is a member of the scientific committee of PCST. His papers appeared in Nature, Science, Nature-Biotechnology, Public Understanding of Science, Genetics & Society, SSS, IJPOR, Science Communication and DIOGENE. You can find Martin’s publications via Google Scholar.

Richard Bolden

Associate, CHET

Email: richard.bolden@uwe.ac.uk

Profile at UWE Bristol

Richard Bolden has been Professor of Leadership and Management and Director of Bristol Leadership and Change Centre at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England (UWE) since 2013. Prior to this he worked at the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School for over a decade and also as an independent consultant, research psychologist and in software development in the UK and France.

Richard’s research explores the interface between individual and collective approaches to leadership and leadership development in a range of sectors, including higher education, healthcare and public services. He has published widely on topics including distributed, shared and systems leadership; leadership paradoxes and complexity; cross-cultural leadership; and leadership and change.

Richard is Associate Editor of the journal Leadership, Fellow of the International Leadership Association, Visiting Professor at the University of Pretoria and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His latest book Exploring Leadership: Individual, organizational and societal perspectives, 2nd edition was published by Oxford University Press in March 2023.

Projects

Richard has secured funded research and evaluation projects for organisations including:

• The NHS Leadership Academy
• Public Health England
• Advance HE
• Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
• Singapore Civil Service College
• Bristol Golden Key

He regularly engages with external organisations.

At UWE Richard leads modules on leadership, complexity and change for the MBA and Advanced Clinical Practitioner degree apprenticeship programme and contributes to a wide range of other undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience programmes on leadership, management and change.

Jelena Brankovic

Associate, CHET

Email: jelena.brankovic@uni-bielefeld.de

Profile at personal website

Jelena Brankovic is a sociologist with an interdisciplinary background and an interest in theoretical, qualitative, and historical research. Her research focuses on the practices of comparison and quantification, global governance, and processes of institutionalization, with particular attention to organizational status dynamics in the university sector. Currently, she is researching the (history of) comparing universities across borders, with a focus on data and information infrastructures that enable the listing, classifying, and sorting of universities on a global scale.

Jelena holds a PhD in sociology from Ghent University (2018). Until 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. This fall she will join the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where she will be leading the research project “Datafying Universities: The Social Construction of Organizations as Statistical Units,” funded by the German Research Foundation.

Katja Brøgger

Associate, CHET

Email: kb@edu.au.dk

Profile at Aarhus University

Katja Brøgger, PhD, is Associate Professor (tenure track) at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is a founding research program director of Policy Futures and is heading the Policy Futures International Webinar Series. Brøgger is the Principal Investigator of two comparative projects and an EU COST Action on how new nationalisms and geo-political shifts affect European higher education and research openness, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and Horizon Europe.

Katja’s research on higher education policy and governance spans the relationship between universities, nation-states, and international polities such as the EU, the European Higher Education and Research Area, as well as privatisation and accountability policies. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education Policy and Globalisation, Societies and Education, a remote evaluator for the European Research Council and a member of the Advisory Board for the Universities and the Future of Europe project under The European University Association (EUA).

Rachel Brooks

Associate, CHET

Email: rachel.brooks@education.ox.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Oxford

Professor Rachel Brooks is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education at Oxford and current President of the British Sociological Association. Rachel has recently moved to Oxford from the University of Surrey where she held a variety of management roles (including head of department and associate dean for research) and was principal investigator of the university’s ESRC-funded Impact Acceleration Account.

She is part of the Sociology editorial team, chair of the executive editors of the British Journal of Sociology of Education, co-editor of the Routledge/SRHE ‘Research into Higher Education’ book series, and was a member of the education sub-panel for the UK’s national research assessment exercise (REF2021).

Publications

Rachel has published widely in the sociology of higher education. Recent books include:

• Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives from across Europe (2022, with Sazana Jayadeva, Achala Gupta, Anu Lainio and Predrag Lazetic)
• Student Migrants and Contemporary Educational Mobilities (2021, with Johanna Waters)
• Reimagining the Higher Education Student (2021, with Sarah O’Shea)

Penny Jane Burke

Associate, CHET

Email: pennyjane.burke@newcastle.edu.au

Profile at the University of Newcastle, Australia

Professor Penny Jane Burke is UNESCO Chair in Equity, Social Justice and Higher Education, Global Innovation Chair of Equity and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her personal experience of accessing higher education against the odds has shaped her tenacious commitment to transforming higher education for equity over the past three decades.

Publications

Dedicated to developing pedagogical methodologies that enable transformative equity and social justice, Penny has published widely in the field of equity, including her Routledge books Equity in Higher Education:

• Time for Praxis (Burke & Lumb, 2024)
• Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education (Burke, Crozier and Misiaszek, 2017)
• The Right to Higher Education: Beyond widening participation (Burke, 2012)
• Reconceptualising Lifelong Learning (Burke and Jackson, 2007)

Penny is co-editor of the Bloomsbury Gender and Education book series and Global Chair of Social Innovation at University of Bath. She has held the position of Executive Editor of Teaching in Higher Education (2010 – 2020), received the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Fellowship Award (2008) and was an expert member of the Australian government’s Equity in Higher Education Panel (2020-2021) and Equity Research & Innovation Panel (2018-2020).

Penny has held the positions of Professor of Education at the University of Sussex and University of Roehampton and Reader at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Vincent Carpentier

Associate, CHET

Email: v.carpentier@ucl.ac.uk

Profile at University College London

Vincent Carpentier is a Professor of History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. His comparative research on the historical relationship between educational systems, Kondratiev cycles and social change is located at the interface of history of education and political economy.

Vincent’s research explores the long-term connections and tensions between funding, equity and quality in higher education at both national and global levels. He was an expert witness to the 2014 Committee on national higher education strategy set up by the French Ministry of Education.

Vincent is Associate editor of the London Review of Education

Memberships

• Scientific committee of the French Network on HE research (RESUP)
• UCL Centre for Higher Education Studies
• UCL International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE)
• ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE)

Zan Chen

Associate, CHET

Email: chen_zan@ial.edu.sg

Profile at Singapore University of Social Sciences

Dr Zan Chen is a Principal Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Adult Learning at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. She has 20 years of research and teaching experiences in universities in both China and Singapore. Her research focuses on adult education and teacher professional learning, digital futures of learning, and training and adult education systems at both national and international levels.

Zan’s research seeks to inform both policy and practice so as to enhance understanding of the impact of continuing education and training and enable its future developments. She has led flagship research which have great impact on higher education, training and adult education in Singapore.

Dr Chen has published widely in her field and presented regularly at both international and local conferences. She is now the Asian Coordinator of Research Network 3 of the ASEM Education and Research Hub for Lifelong Learning. She also serves as a national expert to projects related to adult education and training run by the UK, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture, Korea, and Australia.

Aline Courtois

Associate, CHET

Email: ac2630@bath.ac.uk

Profile at University of Bath

Aline Courtois is a sociologist of education and higher education and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath.

Research interests

• Critical perspectives on student mobility
• Academic precarity
• Gender and international mobility/migration
• Higher education from a comparative perspective
• Elite education

Aline co-edits International Studies in the Sociology of Education.

Tom Crick

Associate, CHET

Email: thomas.crick@swansea.ac.uk

Profile at Swansea University

Professor Tom Crick is Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University and Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Whilst his disciplinary background is in computer science, his interests sit at the research-policy-practice interface, identifying and addressing domain problems with broad digital, data-driven and computational themes, and especially focusing on the impact on citizens, culture and the economy: STEM/digital education, curriculum reform, science and innovation policy, artificial intelligence, data science, and skills/infrastructure for the digital/data economy.

Tom has led the major science and technology curriculum reforms in Wales over the past 10+ years, and has recently driven the development of Swansea University’s civic mission strategy. He was an inaugural Commissioner of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales from 2018-2022, as well as a member of the expert panel for the Welsh Government’s 2019 Review of Digital Innovation for the Economy and the Future of Work in Wales.

Alongside his academic work, Tom has held senior advisory roles with Nesta, Ofcom, and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, as well as non-executive roles in the utilities, engineering/manufacturing, and health sectors.

Tom is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Academy of Social Sciences, and was appointed MBE in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to computer science. He was awarded the 2020 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award for Leading the Future of Science and Technology Education in Wales, as well as a 2022 IET Achievement Medal in STEM Education and Policy, the 2023 Learned Society of Wales Hugh Owen Medal for educational research, and the 2023 BCS Lovelace Medal for Computing Education.

Rob Cuthbert

Associate, CHET

Email: rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk

Rob Cuthbert is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management. He has worked in universities, further education colleges and government agencies worldwide as a manager, academic and consultant; his publications include six books and many reports, articles and papers on HE policy, management, teaching and learning.

A frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences, he has 20 years’ senior management experience as a Dean, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Acting Vice-Chancellor. Rob is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, was Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in 2002-2003 and editor of Higher Education Review (www.highereducationreview.com) 2012-2015. He is chair of the SRHE Publications Committee and the Editorial Advisory Board for Studies in Higher Education, and a doctoral supervisor at the University of Bath. An SRHE Fellow, he conceived, compiles and edits SRHE News and the SRHE Blog, which is read by HE researchers, managers and policymakers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Rob is co-director of the consultancy partnership Practical Academics and past chair of the independent not-for-profit ‘Improving Dispute Resolution Advisory Service’ for higher education.

John A Douglass

Associate, CHET

Email: douglass@berkeley.edu

John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow and Research Professor, Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), Goldman School of Public Policy, at the University of California, Berkeley.

Profile at University of California, Berkeley

Research

John’s research focuses on:

• The forces and politics of globalization
• The future of Democracy, and the role of universities in economic development and socioeconomic mobility
• The student experience and institutional self-improvement
• The history of higher education

His most recent book is Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, and available as a free Open Access eBook via Project Muse).

John was a Fellow at The New Institute (Hamburg) in fall 2021 and has been a Visiting Professor at:

• The University of Bergamo (Italy)
• The Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
• Amsterdam University College (a unit of the University of Amsterdam and Vrije University of Amsterdam)
• The Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil)
• Sciences Po (Paris)
• The Oxford Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS)

Articles

Recent articles include:

• US universities face a precipice under a Trump presidency
• Creating a Great University: Shared Governance at the University of California.

Additional publications

Other books include:

• The New Flagship University: Changing the Paradigm from Global Ranking to National Relevancy (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) and the follow-up book Envisioning the Asian New Flagship University (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2017)
• The Conditions for Admissions (Stanford Press 2007)
• The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford University Press, 2000)
• With Jud King and Irwin Feller (ed.) Globalization’s Muse: Universities and Higher Education Systems in a Changing World (Public Policy Press, 2009)

Reports include:

• Approaching a Tipping Point?: A History and Prospectus on Funding for the University of California
• The Role of Universities in Economic Competitiveness in California

Among the research projects John founded is the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) Consortium: a group of major research universities in the US and internationally that conduct survey research on undergraduates and graduate students, share data, and seek innovation and institutional self-improvement. He served as the founding Editor of the Center’s Research and Occasional Paper Series (ROPS), sits on the editorial board of international higher education journals in the UK, China, and Russia, and serves on the international advisory boards of a number of higher education institutes.

For more information on John’s research and publications, see his CSHE profile.

Linda Evans

Associate, CHET

Email: linda.evans@manchester.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Manchester

Linda Evans is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Education, and currently holds the role of deputy head of the university’s School of Environment, Education and Development, within which the Manchester Institute of Education sits. She has also worked at the University of Warwick, and before her appointment to Manchester in 2017, she was a professor of leadership and professional learning at the University of Leeds. She researches working life in education contexts, with specific foci on, inter alia: professionalism, professional development, researcher development, workplace attitudes, and leadership – including research leadership, academic leadership and intellectual leadership. She adopts a critical, leadership-sceptic perspective, and her most recent publications question whether leadership exists and whether it may be distinguished from other social influence phenomena.

Linda has carried out funded research projects into teaching and learning in higher education, academic leadership, university professors, and academic journal editorship. Her most recently published monograph, Professors as Academic Leaders: Expectations, Enacted Professionalism and Evolving Roles, appeared in 2018 and was translated into Spanish in 2019. Linda has been editor-in-chief of The International Journal for Researcher Development from (2010–2013), associate editor of Educational Management, Administration and Leadership (2013-2023), and she currently sits on the editorial board of Educação, Sociedade & Culturas. She has served on the governing council of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) and was the SRHE elected vice-chair from 2015 until 2018.

A former student of European studies and modern foreign languages, Linda remains a fluent French speaker who, from time to time, collaborates with francophone colleagues and presents her work in French. She also speaks reasonably fluent German. In 2011, she lived in France as a visiting professor at the Institut Français de l’Education within the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She has travelled to Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam to serve as an invited member of the international expert reviewer and assessor panels of, respectively, the Agence nationale de la recherche (French National Research Agency); Swedish National Research Council, and the Nationaal Regieorgaan Onderwijsonderzoek (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Linda is an elected fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Tatiana Fumasoli

Associate, CHET

Email: t.fumasoli@ucl.ac.uk

Profile at University College London

Tatiana Fumasoli is a Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, where she is the director of the UCL Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES). Her research interests lie at the intersection between management studies, organisation theory and sociology of professions and expertise.

Tatiana has led several international projects focusing on global governance, strategic management, and the academic profession. Her research activities investigate new practices of internationalisation, crisis management, and networks of innovation in teaching and learning.

Tatiana is currently leading a World Bank-funded project on internationalization and research governance for the Ministry of Education and Science in Georgia.

Lisa Given

Associate, CHET

Email: lisa.given2@rmit.edu.au

Profile at RMT University

Prof Lisa M. Given, PhD, FASSA, is the Director of the Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, Professor of Information Sciences, and Co-Director and Founder of the Centre for Human-AI Information Environments at RMIT University (Melbourne). Her interdisciplinary research in human information behaviour brings a critical, social research lens to studies of technology use and user-focused design. Her studies embed social change, focusing on diverse settings and populations and methodological innovations across disciplines. A former President of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Prof Given is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and has served on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC’s) College of Experts. She holds numerous grants funded by ARC, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, working with university and community partners across disciplines.

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, lead author of Looking for Information: Examining Research on How People Engage with Information (2023), author of 100 Questions (and Answers) about Qualitative Research (2016), and editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008). You can follow her on X/Twitter @lisagiven and read more about her work at https://lisagiven.com/

Julian Hamann

Associate, CHET

Email: julian.hamann@hu-berlin.de

Profile at Humboldt University of Berlin

Julian Hamann is a junior professor for higher education research at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. His research lies at the intersection of sociological higher education research and sociology of science.

Julian’s work is concerned with academic careers, processes of evaluation, disciplines and epistemic cultures, and social inequality. Studying these issues, he draws on a variety of qualitative methods, from document analysis to interviews and discourse analysis to ethnographic approaches.

Joanne Hardman

Associate, CHET

Email: Joanne.Hardman@uct.ac.za

Profile at the University of Cape Town

Joanne (Jo) Hardman, a psychologist, is a Professor at the University of Cape Town School of Education, where she is the Deputy Director. A Commonwealth Scholar, she obtained her PhD in 2008. She holds the Distinguished Teachers Award at UCT for her work with students and in curriculum design and implementation. She also received the Mellon Young Scientist Award for her work on child development.

Jo has published numerous articles, reports, and book chapters in her field of research interest, developmental psychology, technology, pedagogy, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory. Bloomsbury Press has just published her latest book: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Pedagogical Transitions.

Jo’s research predominantly focuses on child development and teaching and learning, specifically on using technology as a developmental tool. She is working with her team on developing a digital science game to promote primary school students’ conceptual grasp of science.

Jo is an NRF-rated scientist and serves as an exco member for Africa of the International Society for Cultural Historical Activity research and African secretary for the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology.

Petar Jandrić

Associate, CHET

Email: petar.jandric@tvz.hr

Profile at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences

Petar Jandrić is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University, UK. His research interests are situated at the post-disciplinary intersections between technologies, pedagogies and the society, and research methodologies of his choice are inter-, trans-, and anti-disciplinarity.

Petar is Editor-in-Chief of Postdigital Science and Education journal, book series, and encyclopaedia.

Glen Jones

Associate, CHET

Email: glen.jones@utoronto.ca

Profile at the University of Toronto

Glen A. Jones is Professor of Higher Education, Ontario Research Chair in Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. His research focuses on higher education policy, governance and academic work, and he contributes to both the Canadian and the international/comparative scholarship in these areas. He has been a visiting scholar at Beijing Normal University, Fudan University, University of Hong Kong, University of Oslo, and the University of the West Indies. He is a former OISE Dean, Associate Dean and Department Chair. He has received numerous national and international awards for his contributions to scholarship, including an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba.

Publications

His recent books include:

• Governance of Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Theories and Practices (2nd edition) (2024, with Ian Austin)
• Internationalization and the Academic Profession: Comparative Perspectives (2023, with Alper Calikoglu & Yangson Kim)
• The Role of Governing Boards in Canadian Higher Education: Sociological Perspectives on the Form and Functioning of Boards (2023, with Dominik Antonowicz)
• University Governance in Canada: Navigating Complexity (2022, with Julia Eastman, Claude Trottier & Olivier Bégin-Caouette, McGill-Queen’s)
• Universities and the Knowledge Society: The Nexus of National Systems of Innovation and Higher Education (2021, with Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein & Jisun Jung, Springer, 2021)
• International Education as Public Policy in Canada (2020, with Merli Tamtik & Roopa Desai Trilokekar, McGill-Queen’s)
• Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in Global Perspective (2019, with Martin Finkelstein, Johns Hopkins).

Steven Jones

Associate, CHET

Email: sj@manchester.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Manchester

Steven Jones is Professor of Higher Education at Manchester Institute of Education, which is part of The University of Manchester. Co-author of commissioned reports for the Sutton Trust, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and HEFCE, Professor Jones is particularly interested in how the marketisation of higher education has impacted staff and students. He is one of the most prominent commentators on English universities, having written op-ed pieces for the Guardian and other national newspapers, and made regular contributions to WonkHE, HEPI, the Times Higher and the Conversation. Always keen to disseminate his work to as wide a range of stakeholders as possible, he has presented research findings to Universities UK, HM Treasury, the Association of School and College Leaders, and the Sunday Times Festival of Education, and given evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary University Group in the House of Commons. Professor Jones’s latest book, Universities Under Fire, was published in 2022.

Janja Komljenovic

Associate, CHET

Email: j.komljenovic@ed.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Edinburgh

Janja is a Senior Lecturer in Education Futures and a Data Society research area member at the Centre for Research in Digital Education, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the political economy of higher education and its digital transformation. She is especially interested in digital markets, EdTech, and datafication in higher education. As the Principal Investigator of an ESRC-funded project, she has led an international team to explore value creation through digital assets in the sector. Her interdisciplinary approach intersects economic sociology, science and technology studies, and higher education research. She has published internationally on higher education policy, higher education markets and educational technology. Janja is a consultant on various international higher education policy projects, an evaluator of national quality assurance agencies, and a member of international organisations’ committees.

Anna Kosmützky

Associate, CHET

Email: anna.kosmuetzky@lcss.uni-hannover.de

Profile at Leibniz University Hannover

Prof. Dr Anna Kosmützky is a sociologist and professor for the “Methodology of Higher Education and Science Research” at the Leibniz Center of Science and Society (LCSS) at Leibniz University Hannover. Her expertise encompasses higher education research, sociology of science, and organisation studies, focusing on research methodology, particularly comparative research.

Anna investigates the dynamics and consequences of competition in science and higher education. Her research explores the intricate interplay between competition, collaboration, and conflict, explicitly emphasising the institutional and organisational changes occurring within higher education and research institutions. Additionally, she investigates the dynamics of globalisation processes in higher education and is interested in the spatial dimensions of the university as a global institution.

Among Anna’s most recent research projects are Competitive Positioning of Universities and their Members (DFG 2021-2027), a part of the DFG research group Multiple Competition (DFG Phase I 2021-2024, Phase II 2024-2207, which is devoted to an international comparison) and Knowledge Transfer on Cooperation Paths – Types, Contextual Conditions, and Potential for Interventions (BMBF, 2022-2025).

Anna is also a member of the EU Cost Action, Rising nationalisms, shifting geopolitics, and the future of European higher education/research openness (CA22121), where she serves on the managing committee and as the head of a working group.

Donna Lanclos

Associate, CHET

Email: donna.lanclos@gmail.com

Dr Donna Lanclos is an anthropologist who has been working with libraries and higher education as her field site since 2009. Her first fieldwork was in the late 1990s in Northern Ireland, which prepared her well for dealing with the fragmented and fractious landscape of universities and libraries, and conflicting and confounding identities, practices, and priorities therein. She writes, thinks, and speaks about the nature of information, digital and physical places, and higher education generally. Her work is relevant not just to libraries or universities but to conversations about how we as a society make sure that people have opportunities to learn how to think critically, to practice those skills, and to find their voices. She is a methodologist, invested in training people in qualitative approaches to institutional research in education, as well as a qualitative practitioner in her own right.  She runs workshops and talks on these issues and blogs about her work at www.donnalanclos.com.

Hugh Lauder

Associate, CHET

Email: edshl@bath.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Bath

Hugh Lauder is a Professor of Education and Political Economy at the University of Bath and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was formerly Director, The Institute for Policy Research University of Bath, (2014-2016). Hugh studied at the University of London (UCL, Institute of Education) and earned his Doctorate at the University of Canterbury (NZ). He was formerly Dean of Education at Victoria University of Wellington.

He specialises in the relationship of education to the economy and has for over 20 years worked on national skill strategies and, more recently, on the global skill strategies of multinational companies and their implications for graduate recruitment. He is a member of the Royal Society’s Working Party on Broadening the Curriculum. His current work is on the alternatives to human capital theory, the theoretical basis for neoliberalism.

His most recent book is Brown, P., Lauder, H. and Chung S.Y (2020) The Death of Human Capital? Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption, New York, Oxford University Press. A related paper is Lauder, H, Brown, P, and Cheung, S-Y (2018) The Fractured Relationship between Education and the Economy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 34 No. 2: Technology & the Labour Market.

Kevin McClure

Associate, CHET

Email: mcclurek@uncw.edu

Profile at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

Dr Kevin R. McClure is the Murphy Distinguished Scholar of Education and Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He also serves as Director of Public Engagement for the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges.

Kevin is an expert on college leadership, management, and finance, especially at broad-access institutions. He is the co-editor of Regional Public Universities: Addressing Misconceptions and Analyzing Contributions and Unlocking Opportunity through Broadly Accessible Institutions.

Dr McClure’s public scholarship covers a range of topics, and throughout the pandemic he has written viral articles on morale, burnout, disengagement, staffing, and leadership in higher education. He is currently working on a 3-year research project to improve the higher education workplace, including a book titled The Caring University.

Bruce MacFarlane

Associate, CHET

Email: bmac@eduhk.hk

Profile at the University of Hong Kong

Bruce Macfarlane is Chair Professor of Educational Leadership at the Education University of Hong Kong, where he is also Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS). He has held chairs at five other universities including the University of Hong Kong, the University of Southampton and the University of Bristol. Bruce’s work centres on developing conceptual frameworks for interpreting academic practice, ethics and leadership in higher education and his publications include Freedom to Learn (2017), Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education (2012), Researching with Integrity (2009), The Academic Citizen (2007) and Teaching with Integrity (2004).

Simon Marginson

Associate, CHET

Email: simon.marginson@education.ox.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Oxford

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. He is also a Professorial Associate of the University of Melbourne, a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences in UK and of the Society for Research into Higher Education, and a member of Academia Europaea. He formerly worked at Monash and Melbourne universities in Australia and at UCL Institute of Education in London, and from 2015-2024 was Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE).

In 2014 Simon was the Clark Kerr Lecturer on Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and received the Research Achievement Award at the U.S. Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.

Advisory roles

Simon has advisory functions at:

• Peking University
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• The University of Tokyo
• Lingnan University in Hong Kong
• The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
• The National University of Chile

Simon’s research is focused primarily on global, international and comparative higher education, global science, higher education in East Asia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and social inequality. He is associated with concepts including higher education as a positional good, the glonacal (global + national + local) perspective, the post-Confucian model of higher education in East Asia, and higher education as self-formation.

Simon’s scholarship is well published and cited (Google h-index 85). His last two books are Changing Higher Education in East Asia, edited with Xin Xu (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Assessing the contributions of higher education, edited with Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Anna Smolentseva (Edward Elgar, 2023).

Julia Melkers

Associate, CHET

Email: julia.melkers@asu.edu

Profile at the Arizona State University

Julia Melkers is ASU Foundation Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD). Her research focuses on the academic research system, how it engages with the broader environment, and how scientific careers advance in this setting. Her scholarly interests and advisory work also focus on the developmental and outcome evaluation of the organization, activities and outcomes of science and technology-based research teams and organizations, informed by the extensive experience of more than two decades in advising and working with large interdisciplinary scientific teams.
As CORD Director, she leads a group of interdisciplinary scholars whose research focuses on how organizations create new solutions to complex challenges by blending new technologies, scientific discovery, and human capital.

Her work has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, and several foundations. She is the U.S. co-editor of the Journal of Research Evaluation (Oxford University Publishers). Dr. Melkers holds an honorary visiting appointment at INGENIO [CSIC], University Polytechnic Valencia, Spain, is an affiliated researcher with the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET) in Bristol, U.K. and the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS) in Granada, Spain. She was a Fulbright Specialist Program in Latvia, and has served as an advisor for the transformation of research units for the OECD (Austrian Higher Education system), INGENIO (Spain), Riga Stradiņš University (Latvia), among others. Prior to joining ASU, she was Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Research on Careers in Science (ROCS) lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has held faculty positions at the Andrew Young School at Georgia State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Christopher Millward

Associate, CHET

Email: c.millward@bham.ac.uk

Profile on the University of Birmingham website

Christopher joined the University of Birmingham in January 2022 as Professor of Practice in Education Policy, previously serving as Director for Fair Access and Participation and Director of Policy for England’s regulatory and funding agencies. His work is focused on generating and deploying robust evidence for tertiary education policy and practice. He is particularly interested in issues of equity and inclusion across the life course, how different educational systems influence local and national prosperity, and how they could be improved.

In addition to his position at Birmingham, Christopher is a member of MEDR, the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research in Wales, a Marshall Scholarships Commissioner, a Trustee and Council member for the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Trustee of the Society for Research into Higher Education.

Ka Ho Mok

Associate, CHET

Email: joshuamok@hsu.edu.hk

Profile at the The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Professor Joshua Mok is the Provost and Vice-President (Academic and Research) and concurrently Dean of Graduate School and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). He is also the Co-Director of Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education based in the University of Oxford, UK.

Prior to his current role at HSUHK, Professor Mok has held leadership positions at various universities in Hong Kong and UK including the Vice President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong and the Vice President (Research and Development) and Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at The Education University of Hong Kong. Professor Mok was also a Chair Professor and Founding Director of the Centre of East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

Professor Mok has an extensive background in sociology, political science, social policy and social development. He has made significant contributions to the fields of comparative education policy, comparative development and policy studies, as well as social development in China and the East Asia region, with numerous publications. Professor Mok has been recognized as the “Top Leader in Social Sciences and Humanities” by the international academic research portal, Research.com; the “Top Leader of Comparative and International Education Research” by the World Council of Comparative Education Societies; and also one of the “Top 2% Scientists” by Stanford University.

Publications:

• Mok, K.H., Shen, W. and Gu, F. (2024). “The impact of geopolitics on international student mobility : The Chinese students’ perspective”, Higher Education Quarterly, e-print on 27 Feb 2024.
• Zhao, K. and Mok, K.H. (2024). “The COVID-19 pandemic and post-graduation outcomes: Evidence from Chinese elite universities”, International Journal of Educational Research, 124, 102312.
• Mok, K.H. (2023). Globalizing China: Social and Governance Reforms, London: Routledge.
• Dai, K., Mok, K. H., & Li, X. (2023). “Mapping the historical development and landscape of research about transnational higher education: a scientometric analysis from comparative and international perspectives”, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 1–19.

Research areas:

• Comparative Higher Education Policy
• University Governance
• International Higher Education

Darren Moon

Associate, CHET

Email: d.p.moon@lse.ac.uk

Darren Moon is Senior Learning Technologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with more than fifteen years’ experience in higher education, designing and developing digital education solutions. Beyond higher education, he has experience working with both NGOs and further education institutions on delivering digital education at scale.

He has experience of teaching at both Imperial College Business School (“Evaluating Evidence for Managerial Decision Making”, MSc International Health Management) and LSE (the award-winning, “IR318: Visual International Politics” course, BSc International Relations) and has been an advisor to the Association for Learning Technology on matters related to digital media policy and practice.

He currently holds a Visiting Fellowship at University of Sydney Business School, where he advises on the use of media in effective and authentic assessment for teaching and learning. His work has been recognised by the Online Learning Consortium (Sloan-C Effective Practice), Association for Learning Technology, Campus Technology, QS Wharton Stars (Reimagine Education) and LSE’s Excellence in Education awards.

Huw Morris

Associate, CHET

Email: huw.morris@ucl.ac.uk

Profile at the University College London

Huw Morris is an Honorary Professor of Tertiary Education at the Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, where he is seconded by the Welsh Government. Prior to this role, he was Director of Skills, Higher Education and Lifelong Learning for nine years, overseeing a range of reforms to the student finance system, governance arrangements for post-compulsory education and development of apprenticeships. Before this role, he was an academic for twenty-five years, moving from the post of research assistant to the lecturer, associate dean, dean pro vice chancellor and deputy vice-chancellor at Imperial College, Bedfordshire, Kingston, UWE, Manchester Metropolitan, and the University of Salford.

Christopher Newfield

Associate, CHET

Email: chris.newfield@isrf.org

Profile on personal site

Christopher Newfield was Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is now Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London. He is the immediate past president of the Modern Language Association.

Research areas

A multidisciplinary scholar, his areas of research are:

• Critical University Studies
• Literary criticism
• Quantification studies
• Innovation studies
• The intellectual and social effects of the humanities
• U.S. cultural history before the Civil War and after World War II

Christopher’s current research project involves the nature and effects of literary knowledge.

Publications

Christopher has written a trilogy of books on the university as an intellectual and social institution:

• Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 (Duke University Press, 2003)
• Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2008)
• The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).

His research on universities emerged from practical experience with university planning and budgeting through the University of California’s academic senate. He is a co-author of What Metrics Matter? Academic Life in the Quantified University (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) and is co-editor of The Limits of the Numerical (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

Christopher has served as co-principal investigator on multi-year grants from the National Science Foundation (Nanotechnology in Society) and as PI on a multi-year collaborative research grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (Limits of the Numerical: Metrics and the Humanities in Higher Education). He has co-authored a film: What Happened to Solar Innovation? He also writes about American intellectual and cultural history (The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America, University of Chicago Press), and has co-edited Mapping Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press) with Avery F. Gordon.

Other writing

Christopher blogs on higher education policy at Remaking the University, and has written for:

• The Huffington Post
• Inside Higher Ed
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• WonkHE (UK)
• The Guardian’s Higher Education Network
• The Boston Review
• The Los Angeles Review of Books

Lawrie Phipps

Associate, CHET

Email: lawrie.phipps@jisc.ac.uk

Profile at personal website

Lawrie Phipps is the Senior Research Lead at Jisc. His current portfolio includes research into institutional digital practices, digital leadership and a range of emerging issues impacting on digital experiences in education and digital transformation. He is a qualified executive coach and has worked with a range of individuals and teams to support digital transformation and change initiatives in universities over more than 25 years. He is a Visiting Professor of Digital Education at the University of Chester and a Senior Research Fellow at Munster Technological University.

Anatoly Oleksiyenko

Associate, CHET

Email: anatoly@eduhk.hk

Profile at The Education University of Hong Kong website

Anatoly Oleksiyenko is Professor of International Higher Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). His research focuses on the challenges of globalisation in higher education and the transformations of universities in the 21st century. His publications address the dilemmas of agency of internationalization in higher education, the complexity of governance, and the ethics of leadership in neoliberal universities.

He is a leading scholar on the challenges of organizational change in post-soviet higher education. His publications received awards from the Comparative and International Education Society in the USA (2016 – best article award from Higher Education SIG; 2019 – best book award from the SIG International Students and Study Abroad; and 2024 – best research paper award from the SIG Europe and Central Asia). Professor Oleksiyenko holds a PhD in Higher Education from OISE-University of Toronto.

KerryAnn O’Meara

Associate, CHET

Email: kao2162@tc.columbia.edu

Profile at Teachers College, Columbia University website

KerryAnn O’Meara is Professor of Higher Education and the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Teachers College, Columbia University. She draws on insights from organisational behaviour, higher education research, and behavioural economics to identify and test policies, practices, and interventions to recruit and retain a diverse faculty. KerryAnn has led evidence-based interventions in inclusive hiring, retention and third-space networks, workload reform, and faculty evaluation. She uses various methods to study equity in faculty careers and reward systems, including longitudinal approaches, randomised control trials, ethnography, time-diary methods, surveys, case studies, and interviews. Her research and practice have been continuously funded by NSF since 2010. KerryAnn recently completed a study of the effects of nudges on faculty evaluation and is interested in factors that shape executive decision-making in higher education.

Rille Raaper

Associate, CHET

Email: rille.raaper@durham.ac.uk

Profile at Durham University

Rille Raaper is Associate Professor in Sociology of Higher Education at Durham University. Her research centres around university students with a particular focus on student identity, experience and political agency in a variety of higher education settings.

Rille’s research interests lie in the sociology of higher education. Her research is primarily concerned with how universities organise their work in competitive higher education markets, and the implications market forces have on current and future students. The two particular strands of Rille’s research relate to:

1. student identity and experience in consumerist higher education
2. student agency, citizenship and political activism

Her recent book titled Student Identity and Political Agency: Activism, Representation and Consumer Rights (Routledge, 2024) captures various strands of Rille’s work from the past ten years.

Rille’s further research projects build on this, exploring students in a variety of new and altered settings: student influencers on social media platforms such as TikTok, and students as complaint-makers in consumerist higher education.

Rille is an editor of the journal Critical Studies in Education, and a member of the editorial boards for the British Journal of Sociology of Education, and Teaching in Higher Education.

James Robson

Associate, CHET

Email: james.robson@education.ox.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Oxford

James Robson is the Director of the Oxford University Centre for Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) and Associate Professor of Tertiary Education Systems in the Department of Education, Oxford University. His research focuses on the political economy of Tertiary Education systems, bringing together key interests in the nexus of education and employment, the critical study of skills supply and demand, research eco-systems, access, social justice and sustainability.

Funders

James has received major funding from:

• ESRC
• AHRC
• GCRF
• The Edge Foundation
• The Royal Society
• The British Academy
• Nuffield Foundation
• The Office for Students
• Research England

Nicolás Robinson-García

Associate, CHET

Email: elrobin@ugr.es

Profile at the University of Granada

Nicolás Robinson-García is Ramón y Cajal fellow in the field of bibliometrics and research evaluation at the University of Granada. He is the scientific director of the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS) and head of the EC3 Research Group. He is Associate Editor of Open Science and New Metrics for the journal Scientometrics and a member of the Steering Committee of the European Summer School for Scientometrics. His research interests include research careers, diversity, science communication, and social outreach. He is also a member of the editorial board of Research Evaluation and Quantitative Science Studies.

Kalpana Shankar

Associate, CHET

Email: kalpana.shankar@ucd.ie

Profile at University College Dublin

Kalpana Shankar is a Full Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. Her research and teaching focus on the research ecosystem itself, open data, and data archives and sharing, as well as other work on research evaluation and peer review. Her current focus is on studying tensions between open science and commercialisation in the digital health research and innovation ecosystem in Ireland.

Kalpana’s other interests include practices of equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education.

Hanne Shapiro

Associate, CHET

Email: futures@hanneshapiro.com

Profile at personal webpage

Hanne Shapiro is a policy analyst and consultant with over 30 years of experience in education, labour force, and business themes, with a focus on the digital economy. Hanne has carried out international policy studies and provided strategic advice to national governments, OECD, UNESCO, WEF, and the EU Commission. She is well-grounded in future methodologies and has, in several contexts, actively applied these to explore and reimagine lifelong learning scenarios and the role of human ingenuity in shaping technological change. In that context, she has worked with numerous sector bodies in Denmark, Scandinavia, and Europe, such as financial services, including Fintech, engineering services, advanced manufacturing, and Edtech. More recently, she has supported the European Commission in a European consultation process to define a European approach to micro-credentials in the context of lifelong learning.

Mary P. Sheridan

Associate, CHET

Email: maryp.sheridan@louisville.edu

Profile at the University of Louisville

Dr Mary P. Sheridan is a Professor of English and Director of the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville (US). Her teaching and research explore questions at the nexus of Higher Education, community engagement, and feminist methodologies.

Mary has published widely and has earned two national book awards in her field; is a co-recipient of her field’s Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award for a collaborative web text; and is part of an edited collection that was awarded her field’s book of the year.

Mary has earned recognition for her work from the Kaiser Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and Verizon, and she has been awarded the Dr Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Gender Equity Award from the University of Louisville’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Robin Shields

Associate, CHET

Email: robin.shields@uq.edu.au

Profile at the University of Queensland

Robin Shields’ research examines how new sources of data and statistical models can be used to understand global trends in education. He is particularly interested in using social network analysis to understand global networks in education, and his recent research has also examined how international higher education is implicated in the crisis of global climate change. Robin has held grants from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council, the European Commission, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and other funders. He has also served as co-editor of the journal Comparative Education Review and has undertaken consultancies for national and international NGOs and UNESCO.

Robin is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Queensland, where he has overall responsibility for leadership, strategy, and development of a leading center of educational research and teaching in Australia and beyond.

Michelle Stack

Associate, CHET

Email: michelle.stack@ubc.ca

Profile at the University of British Columbia

Michelle Stack is the Academic Director of the Learning Exchange at the University of British Columbia and an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies. Before her academic career, she worked for the government of British Columbia as a policy and communications advisor. She is frequently invited by media outlets to comment on issues related to university rankings and educational equity.

Dr Stack’s primary research interest revolves around categorising people, knowledge, and institutions and how these categorisations impact our collective ability to address growing inequity. Her current research focuses on cooperative colleges and universities to offer learning opportunities for democratic decision-making while enhancing student and staff food, job, and housing security.

She is the author of Global University Ranking and the Mediatization of Higher Education (Palgrave), editor of  Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge (Open Access Book, University of Toronto), and co-editor with Dr. André Mazawi of Course syllabi in faculties of education: Bodies of knowledge and their discontents, international and comparative perspectives (Bloomsbury Academic Publishers).

Sharon Stein

Associate, CHET

Email: sharon.stein@ubc.ca

Profile at the University of British Columbia

Dr. Sharon Stein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. In her work, she asks how higher education can prepare people to respond to wicked challenges in socially relevant, relationally rigorous, and intergenerationally responsible ways. In particular, she examines the challenges of confronting difficult truths about colonialism and climate change in different fields of study and practice, and the complexities and paradoxes of enacting regenerative forms of social and institutional change.

She is the author of Unsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of Higher Education, founder of the Critical Internationalization Studies Network, and co-founder of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective.

Cassidy R. Sugimoto

Associate, CHET

Email: sugimoto@gatech.edu

Profile at Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto is Tom and Marie Patton Professor and School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research examines the formal and informal ways in which knowledge is produced, disseminated, consumed, and supported, with an emphasis on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sugimoto was a professor of Informatics in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington from 2010-2021 and served as the Program Director for the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program at the National Science Foundation from 2018-2020. She has received the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award (2014), a national service award from the Association for Information Science and Technology (2009), and a Bicentennial Award for service from Indiana University (2020). She holds a bachelor’s in Music Performance, a master’s in Library Science, and a doctoral degree in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Christine Teelken

Associate, CHET

Email: j.c.teelken@vu.nl

Profile at the VU Universiteit Amsterdam

Christine Teelken is an Associate Professor and Programme Director at the Department of Organization Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the sustainability of academic organizations, especially concerning post-PhD career developments and gender diversity in higher education. One of her recent research projects involves the well-being of postdoctoral researchers and a critical perspective on waking. She has published widely in various higher education and public administration journals, especially Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education. In 2023, with colleagues from Italy and Danmark, she published a special issue, “An international exploration of post-PhD careers. Discussing the issues of employability and intersectoral mobility” in Studies in Higher Education.

She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Higher Education, co-editor of Higher Education Quarterly, and highly active in the EERA and EGOS research communities. Between 2015 and 2021, she was the link convenor of the Higher Education Research network of the EERA, ECER.

Michael Tomlinson

Associate, CHET

Email: m.b.tomlinson@soton.ac.uk

Profile at the University of Southampton

Michael Tomlinson is Professor in Higher Education, Work & Employability at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. He has extensively researched the area of graduate employability and transitions to the labour market and his work is conceptually and critically informed. He has pioneered a number of key models, including the Graduate Capital model which has been actively incorporated in the University of Southampton careers and employability strategy, as well as other UK and international institutions. In addition, he has researched developments in higher education policy, including critical approaches to the marketisation of UK higher education and the implications this has for institutions, students and academics. He has published widely in these areas. Michael is the author and co-author of five books which have brought together his thinking in these fields and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Education and Work, Higher Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education and Higher Education Policy.