Reconciling marketisation
#HigherEdSeminarSeries
2024-2025
Understanding the political economy of higher education
From Sep 2024 to April 2025
What to expect
In this co-curated #HigherEdSeminarSeries, we seek to interrupt and break the discursive hegemony around marketisation. We intend to nurture new theoretical and empirical pathways towards visions and materialisations of higher education that are unstuck from the weight and efficiency of singular explanations and which are dialectically accommodating.
To do so, we will draw on the expertise of a multi-disciplinary community of field-leading thinkers addressing concerns related to the widest community of higher education scholars, higher education administrators, higher education support and membership organisations and funders, and higher education policymakers.
Themes
Financing Higher Education
Massification
Internationalisation
Digital Technologies
Employment and Public Citizenship
Prestige and Rankings
Polycrisis
7 online seminars
28 Speakers
Online Seminars 2025
February
26th
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (BST), Online
From higher education to employment and public citizenship: reassessing the higher education value proposition
Andy Westwood, University of Manchester
Ellen Hazelkorn, BH Associates & TU Dublin
James Robson, University of Oxford
Martin Kitchener, University of Cardiff - Discussant
March
26th
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (BST), Online
The death of prestige: disbanding a rankings imperative
Leslie D Gonzales, The University of Arizona
Michelle Stack, University of British Columbia
Georgiana Mihut, University of Warwick
Camille Kandiko Howson, Imperial College London - Discussant
April
2nd
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (BST), Online
The implications of polycrisis for higher education
Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia
Basma Hajir, University of Bristol
Steven Jones, University of Manchester
Richard Hall, De Montfort University - Discussant
Online Seminars 2024
September
25th
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (BST), Online
Refinancing higher education
Vincent Carpentier, University College London
Kate Ogden, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mark Corver, DataHE
Huw Morris, University College London - Discussant
October
30th
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (GMT), Online
The end of higher education massification – rebalancing the HE offer?
Ka Ho Mok, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Christopher Millward, University of Birmingham
Christopher Newfield, Independent Social Research Foundation
Michael Tomlinson, University of Southampton - Discussant
November
27th
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (GMT), Online
Undoing internationalisation?
Hans de Wit, Boston College
Jenna Mittelmeier, University of Manchester
Malcolm Tight, University of Lancaster
Catherine Montgomery, University of Durham - Discussant
December
11th
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (GMT), Online
The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies
David Staley, The Ohio State University
Tanner Mirrlees, Ontario Tech University
Darren Moon, London School of Economics
Janja Komljenovic, University of Edinburgh - Discussant
Organisers
Reconciling marketisation #HigherEdSeminarSeries 2024-2025