Project 3

Research on Research: the research function and mission of higher education

This comparative and multi-disciplinary study explores and theorizes the research function of higher education within the wider dynamics of education, research and innovation ecosystems.

About this project

The CGHE Research on Research project, led by Professor Alis Oancea, has involved a core team from Oxford and Bristol (see below) and an international advisory board. The project has adopted a multi-layered approach to understanding research ecosystems internationally, and has considered values and discourses; practices and outputs; organisational environments and relationships; evaluation and assessment frameworks; policy and funding; individual careers and perspectives; and meta-scholarship. It includes a comparative study of the weight given to research in academic life and evaluations, in relation to: individual careers, organisational environments, teaching and learning, sectoral policy, and relationships with other sectors, including publishing and industry. This is complemented by a comparative international study of assessment systems for higher education-based research, considering critically their role in framing arguments about the public contributions and value of research in higher education.

Between 2020 and 2024, the team conducted global research stakeholder interviews (n=72), complemented by analytic insights from a corpus of current and historical policy documents (n=308) mapping the history of research assessment in Australia, Italy, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom. It also conducted multilingual interviews with professional and academic staff at different career stages and with unit and institutional leadership (n=98) and bibliometric analysis, to support case studies in 12 higher education institutions in six countries and across 27 research units spanning the spectrum of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. The study has also generated a global comparative analysis framework for research on research and a suite of survey modules for further research on research on different scales.

As part of CGHE 2024-2029, the project continues to generate further analysis, publications, conference presentations and dissemination and engagement.

Team

Professor Alis Oancea

University of Oxford

Alis is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Research Policy at the University of Oxford, where she has also been Director of Research in the Department of Education. Her interests are in research on research and philosophy of research. Her research has focused on research policy and governance, research assessment and evaluation, incentives and criteria for worthwhile research (including openness, quality, impacts), methodological theory and research capacity building; higher education policy and reform, including the reform of teacher education in international contexts; and empirical, theoretical and philosophical exploration of different modes of research.

Gemma Derrick

The University of Bristol

Gemma Derrick is Associate Professor (Research Policy & Culture) at The University of Bristol and a CGHE Co-Investigator on CGHE Project 3, ‘Research on Research: the research function and mission of higher education’.

Dr James Robson

University of Oxford

James Robson is Co-Director of Oxford University’s Centre for Skills, Knowledge, and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), Associate Professor of Tertiary Education Systems, and leads Oxford’s MSc in HE. He was a CGHE co-investigator on Project 3, ‘Research on Research: the research function and mission of higher education’.

Dr Xin Xu

University of Oxford

Xin Xu (许心) is a Departmental Lecturer in Higher/Tertiary Education at the University of Oxford. Her research concentrates on higher/tertiary education and research.

Antonin Charret

University of Oxford

Antonin Charret is a Research Assistant on Project 3 for the Centre for Global Higher Education and a Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oxford.

Dr Jess Pilgrim-Brown

University of Bristol and University of Oxford

Dr Jess Pilgrim-Brown is a sociologist and researcher in education. She focuses on issues relating to social class, gender and wider social inequalities.

Research Assistants

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Lingxuan Chen

University of Oxford

Lingxuan Chen is a Clarendon Scholar and is currently studying for a DPhil in Education at the University of Oxford. Her thesis focuses on the endogenisation of China’s social science research and the underpinning power dynamics. Her doctoral research is fully funded by the Clarendon Fund Scholarship. Lingxuan worked as a Research Assistant on the Centre for Global Higher Education ‘Research on Research’ project. She has a strong interest in China’s social science research, global epistemic justice, international relations and politics, and knowledge-power nexus.

Dr Soyoung Lee

University of Oxford

Dr Soyoung Lee was a research assistant on Project 3 and a member of Global Higher Education research group. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge. Soyoung’s research interests involve international students, student agency and student self-formation in higher education.

McQueen Sum

University of Oxford

McQueen Sum is currently reading for a DPhil in Education at the University of Oxford. She is supervised by Professor Alis Oancea and Dr Victoria Elliott. McQueen is a member of the Centre for Global Higher Education interested in higher education, teaching, teachers’ work, and technology. Her research interests are influenced by her prior experiences of working as an academic tutor at the University of Hong Kong and a researcher for Khan Academy and HarvardX (edX).

Szilvi Watson

University of Oxford

Szilvi Watson is a final-year DPhil student at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education. She was a doctoral research assistant in the Centre for Global Higher Education on the Research on Research and the Responsible KEEI projects. Her doctoral research pertains to the experiences of religious postgraduate students at universities in England. Previously Szilvi was senior project manager of a world-wide science and religion project at Oxford University’s Materials Department. She is a qualified teacher with extensive experience in varied educational settings and has an interest in higher education research.

Benjamin Hart

University of Oxford

Benjamin Hart was a research assistant on Project 3 while also a doctoral student in the Department of Education conducting research in the field of English Higher Education. His research focusses on evaluation within a widening participation setting and his interests lie primarily in the field of higher education and the philosophy of education. Following his B.A., and MSc in Sociology, Benjamin completed his MSc Education (Research Design and Methodology) at the University of Oxford. Prior to his Doctoral studies, Benjamin worked in Evaluation at the University of Oxford.

Other Team Members

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Dr Maria Rucsandra Stan

Dr Maria Rucsandra Stan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca, Italy. In 2022 she was a visiting doctoral researcher on CGHE Project 3, ‘Research on Research: the research function and mission of higher education’ under the supervision of Professor Alis Oancea. Rucsandra was also part of a PRIN project (Carlo Cattaneo University local unit), on “The effects of evaluation on academic research: knowledge production and methodological issues’”. Her doctoral research focused on the effects of the evaluation system on knowledge production and researchers in academia and research institutions.

Dr Hoonhui Cho

Ministry of Education in the Republic of Korea

Dr Hoonhui Cho was a visiting researcher in the ESRD/RE Centre for Global Higher Education at the University of Oxford in 2023, and is a senior official of the Ministry of Education in the Republic of Korea. He has been working as an educational policy practitioner since 2004 in the South Korean government. In the meantime, Hoonhui finished his doctoral thesis on the Korean state and its approaches to policy making in higher education at the University of Oxford in 2014. His research interests includes higher education governance and policy, research assessment and comparative higher education.

Bruno Mallett

Former intern

Bruno Mallett worked as an intern on this project in May 2022. Bruno is an emerging educational researcher who is developing specialisms in higher education, global educational governance and education philosophy. He is currently working on a research project which investigates the ways in which numeracy and literacy requirements are assessed on initial teacher training programs in England following reforms to the prior QTS Professional Skills Tests model in 2019.

Advisory Board

Professor Ka Ho Mok

Hang Seng University (Hong Kong)

Professor Ka Ho Mok, Joshua is currently Provost and Vice President (Academic & Research) of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). Before joining HSUHK, he was the Vice President and Chair Professor of Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Since the inception of CGHE, Professor has worked closely with colleagues of the centre for promoting higher education research with focus on Asian education and development studies. He is also a Deputy Director of CGHE. Before joining Lingnan, he was the Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Education University of Hong Kong, and the Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Mok was appointed as the Founding Chair Professor in East Asian Studies and established the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Ka Ho Mok led CGHE Project 10, ‘UK international graduates in mass media and public perceptions: A comparative study of the UK, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’.

Dr Siri Brorstad Borlaug

Nordic institute for studies in innovation, research and education NIFU

Dr Siri Brorstad Borlaug is a senior researcher at NIFU (Nordic institute for studies in innovation, research and education). She studies the effects of funding and governance in research policy and research institutions on researchers and research. Her interests also include the role of societal stakeholders in research and how researchers engage in society.

Professor Jonathan Boston

Victoria University of Wellington

Jonathan Boston, ONZM, is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). His research interests include climate change, child poverty, governance, public management, research funding, and welfare state design. He has served at various times as Director of the Institute of Policy Studies and Director of the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at VUW. In the early 2000’s he was a member of the Tertiary Education Advisory Committee and helped design and implement the Performance-Based Research Fund in New Zealand’s tertiary education sector.

Dr Elizabeth Gadd

University of Glasgow and Loughborough University

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gadd is Head of Research Operations at the University of Glasgow and a Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University. She chairs the International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS) Research Evaluation Group, the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) Research Evaluation Special Interest Group and the LIS-Bibliometrics Forum. She founded The Bibliomagician Blog which provides bibliometric advice and guidance ‘by practitioners, for practitioners’. Elizabeth was the recipient of the 2020 INORMS Award for Excellence in Research Management Leadership.

Dr Steven Hill

Research England

Steven Hill is Director of Research at Research England. Steven was formerly Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and leads on all aspects of research policy and funding. Steven is responsible for research funding, including quality-related funding (QR), general capital funding and the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF). He also leads Research England’s research assessment and policy work, and is the chair of the steering group for the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Dr Phyllis Kalele

Academy of Science of South Africa

As a research and programme management professional, Dr. Phyllis Kalele heads the African Collaboration sub-programme at the Academy of Science of South Africa. She directs strategic academy projects in Africa with the aim of bolstering science diplomacy, promoting the use of evidence-based science in policy making and increasing the visibility of African scientists. Dr. Kalele also leads gender in science initiatives at the academy and from 2019 to 2020 she was the Africa Regional Focal Point Coordinator for Gender in Science, Innovation, Technology and Engineering (GenderInSITE), a global, multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder initiative to promote the role of women in SITE. She holds a BSc. in Botany and Zoology, a MSc. in Environmental Sciences and a PhD. in Science and Technology Studies.

Professor Vincent Larivière

Université de Montréal

Vincent Larivière holds the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication at the Université de Montréal, where he is professor of information science and associate vice-president (planning and communications). He is also scientific director of the Érudit journal platform, associate scientific director of the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST) and regular member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST). His research focuses on science policy, scholarly publishing, and diversity and equity in science.

Professor Cameron Neylon

Curtin University

Cameron Neylon is Professor of Research Communication at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University where he is co-lead on the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. He is interested in how to make the internet more effective as a tool for scholarship. He writes and speaks regularly on scholarly communication, the design of web based tools for research, and the need for policy and cultural change within and around the research community.

Associate Professor Heidi Prozesky

Stellenbosch University

Heidi Prozesky is an associate professor at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, located at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies and a master’s degree in social science methods. As a sociologist of science, Heidi employs both quantitative and qualitative strategies to investigate her main research interests, namely women in science and early-career researchers in (South) Africa, in particular their research productivity.

Professor Emanuela Reale

Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth IRCRES CNR

Emanuela Reale is Director of the Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth IRCRES CNR. Her main areas of interest are higher education policy, governance, R&D funding, STI indicators, research evaluation and impact assessment -with a special focus on SSH research. Currently she is PI in the RISIS project Research Infrastructure for science and innovation studies, and coordinator of the PRIN project on effects of evaluation on universities research. She is Member of the Board of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers CHER, of the European Network of Indicator designer ENID, and President of the European Forum for Research and Innovation-EU-SPRI.

Professor Leandro Rodriguez Medina

Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Leandro Rodriguez Medina (PhD Cambridge) is Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science, Universidad de las Americas Puebla (Mexico). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level 2) at the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) and founding Editor-in-Chief of Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. He has held visiting positions at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Albert Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany) and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III and Université Descartes-Paris V (France). His research interests are Latin American STS, international circulation of academic knowledge, social aspects of diseases (zika and covid-19), and the relationship between culture and city in Mexico. Recent publications include Migrants, parasites et exploitation minière: coproduction de problèmes publics et de connaissances scientifiques dans la périphérie (2021, Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances), Cultural practices and rough sociality in Mexico’s midsize cities: Tijuana, Puebla and Monterrey (2021, Urban Studies), De la posverdad al populismo epistémico: una visión CTS (2021, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales), Personal bonds in the internationalization of the social sciences: a view from the periphery (2021, International Sociology), Who’s Afraid of Ebola? Epidemic Fires and Locative Fears in the Information Age (2020, Social Studies of Science), and International Ties at Peripheral Sites: Co-producing Social Processes and Scientific Knowledge in Latin America (2019, Science as Culture), among others.

Publications

Oancea, A., Derrick, G., Xu, X. and Nuseibeh, N. (2024) Handbook of Meta-Research. Edward Elgar.

Derrick, G.E., Robson, J., Oancea, A., Xu, X., Stan, M. R. (2024) The gravity of the status quo: the response of research governance to system-level shocks. Higher Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01309-8

Oancea, A. (2024). Hard-to-assess research-impact nexuses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. In A. Oancea, G. Derrick, N. Nuseibeh, & X. Xu (Eds.), Handbook of Meta-Research (pp. 55-61). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105722.00012

Derrick, Nuseibeh, Oancea and Xu (2024) Meta-research as a discipline, field or spectrum. In: A. Oancea et al (eds) Handbook of Meta-Research. Elgar Publishing, pp. 1-11.

Xu, X. (2022). Epistemic diversity and cross-cultural comparative research: ontology, challenges, and outcomes. Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1932438

Other relevant publications

2022

Punch, K. & Oancea, A. (2022) 《教育研究方法导论》 Introduction to Research Methods in Education. Chinese Edition. SAGE.

Fancourt, N., Foreman-Peck, L. and Oancea, A. (2022) Addressing ethical quandaries in practitioner research: A philosophical and exploratory study of responsible improvisation through hermeneutical conversation. Teaching and Teacher Education, 116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103760

Derrick, G. & Hettrick, S. (2022) Time to celebrate science’s ‘hidden’ contributors. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00454-3

Xu, X., Braun Střelcová, A., Marini, G., Huang, F. and Cai, Y. (2022). International academics in mainland China: what do we know and what do we need to know? European Journal of Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2074865

Xu, X. (2022). Epistemic diversity and cross-cultural comparative research: ontology, challenges, and outcomes. Globalisation, Societies and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1932438

Yang, L, Marginson, S, and Xu, X. (2022). 以“天下”思天下：“天下”思想对全球高等教育的新启发 (Thinking through tianxia: a new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education), 《清华大学教育研究》 (Tsinghua Journal of Education). 43(2) 1-13. http://doi.org/10.14138/j.1001-4519.2022.02.000113

Marginson, S. & Xu, X. (forthcoming). Hegemony and inequality in global science: problems of the center-periphery model”, Comparative Education Review.

2021

Oancea, A., Fancourt, N., Robson, J., Thompson, I., Childs, A., & Nuseibeh, N. (2021). Research capacity-building in teacher education, Oxford Review of Education, 47:1, 98-119, DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2020.1842184

Oancea, A., Xu, X., Robson, J., McDermott, T. and Scutt, C. (2021). Educational research in the United Kingdom, 2010–2020. In: Research Intelligence, 149. https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/winter-2021-22

Xu, X., Oancea, A. & Rose, H. (2021). The impacts of incentives for international publications on research cultures in Chinese humanities and social sciences. Minerva: a review of science, learning and policy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09441-w

Derrick, G. & Bayley, J. (2021). The Corona-Eye: Exploring the risks of COVID-19 on fair assessments of impact for REF 2021, Research Evaluation, https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-article/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvab033/6371882

Gemma Derrick and her Research Phoenix team including Alessandra Zimmerman and Richard Klavans from Proposal Analytics, and The Wellcome Trust published their project report “Building a formative peer review system for ECR applicants at The Wellcome Trust” in December 2021.

Robson, J. (2021). Micro-credentials: The new frontier of adult education and training, OECD Network Forum, https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/micro-credentials-the-new-frontier-of-adult-education-and-training?room_id=equity-in-education-unlocking-opportunities-throughout-life

Robson, J. (2021). Pandemic and higher education policy: the UK as a policy laboratory, UK in a Changing Europe, https://ukandeu.ac.uk/pandemic-and-higher-education/

Robson, J., Holgate, B. and Randhawa, A. (2021). Storycraft: The Importance of Narrative and Narrative Skills in Business. Swindon: Arts and Humanities Research Council (https://skope.ox.ac.uk/publications/storycraft/) [featured in the Edge Foundation’s Autumn Skills Shortages Bulletin: https://www.edge.co.uk/research/projects/skills-shortages-uk-economy/skills-shortage-bulletin-9/

Xu, X. (2021). A policy trajectory analysis of the internationalisation of Chinese humanities and social sciences research (1978–2020). International Journal of Educational Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102425

Marginson, S. & Xu, X. (2021). Moving beyond centre-periphery science: Towards an ecology of knowledge. CGHE Working Paper. /publications/working-paper/moving-beyond-centre-periphery-science-towards-an-ecology-of-knowledge/

Marini, G. & Xu, X. (2021). “The Golden Guests”? International Faculty in Mainland Chinese Universities. Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Research Report. https://srhe.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/SRHE-Research-Report_Marini_Xu_Oct-2021_Final.pdf

Impact

Events

ESRC/CGHE Research on Research project (2024) Webinar series:

Webinar 1: Pilgrim-Brown, J. – Working-class Professional Service and Administrative Staff in UK Higher Education: Reflections on Reward, Recognition and Responsibility, 16th April
Webinar 2: Oancea, Robson, Derrick, Xu, Pilgrim-Brown, Charret, Chen, Sum – Findings from the CGHE Research on Research Project , 18 April
Webinar 3: Bayley, J.and Derrick, G. – Research Assessment and Impact, 23 April
Webinar 4: Larivière, V. and Ross-Hellauer, T. – Open Science, 25 April

ESRC/CGHE Research on Research project (2023) Stakeholders workshop: Evidence-informed research assessment reform. 13 September, Oxford

Project sessions

Project session (2022) Research on Research: The role of research and research assessment in higher education. Centre for Global Higher Education conference, 24 May. WATCH HERE

Project session (2021) Research on Research: The research function and mission of higher education. Centre for Global Higher Education conference, 11 May. WATCH HERE

Conference presentations

Oancea, A., Xu, X., et al (2024) Navigating Evaluation Frameworks in Humanities and Social Sciences: A Comparative International Analysis. Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities conference, 23-24 May 2024, Galway, Ireland.
Charret, A., Xu, X. , Oancea, A., et al (2024) Unveiling contrasting visions and mechanisms for research assessment in Europe: A Comparative study of three national systems. CHER 36^th conference: Higher Education and Science Future(s), Luxembourg, 4-6 September.
Minelli, E., Stan, R., Engwall, L., Oancea, A., Reale, E. and Zuccala, A. (2024) Research Evaluation at the Crossroads of Science: The Effects and Implications of the Machinery of Research Evaluation. Sub-plenary, European Group of Organisational Studies (EGOS) 40^th Colloquium, “Crossroads for organizations: Time, space and people”, University of Milan-Bicocca, 4-6 July (https://www.egos.org/2024_milan/general_theme)
Oancea, A., Cai, W., Wang, X. and Yu, K. (2024) Responsible collaborations across geographical, sectoral and disciplinary boundaries. Behavioural Science and Metascience Insights Workshop, Department of Economics, Oxford, 11-12 Sep 2024
Troiano, M., Sidwell, N., Boyle, J., Oancea, A., Bandola-Gill, J. and Barbrook-Johnson, P. (2024) Should universities shift from evidence producers to co-producers? Agile Initiative, Oxford Martin School, 3 June
Case, J. (chair), Carpentier, V., Chankseliani, M., Mills, D., McCowan, T., Laurillard, D., Kennedy, E., Marginson, S., Oancea, A., Shattock, M. (2024) Worldwide higher education? What are the similarities and differences between national systems? Plenary panel, CGHE Conference, London, 15 Feb
Oancea, A. (2023) Definitions of ‘research’, ‘researchers’ and ‘research excellence’ in international research assessment systems. National Commission of the Reform of Higher Education in Portugal/ University of Porto, Portugal, 10 July
Oancea, A. (2023) Tertiary Education: Challenges and responsibilities. Keynote, CGHE Conference, London, 22 May
Derrick, G.E., Robson, J., Oancea, A. and Xu, X. (2023) Global research governance and its adaptation to research ‘shocks’: COVID disruption, response and recovery. Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, May 24-26.
Derrick, G., James, K. and RoR team (2023) The value of competitive hires within institutions under audit: A global comparison of university departments. Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, 24-26 May.
Derrick, G., Robson, J., Xu, X. and Oancea, A. (2023) Global research governance and its adaptation to research ‘shocks’: COVID disruption, response and recovery. Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, 24-26 May.
Oancea, A. (2022) The roles of indicators in research evaluation: ethical and epistemological reflections. Keynote, 26th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, 7-9 Sep, Granada, Spain
Oancea, A., Derrick, G., Robson, J. and Xu, X. (2022) The role of research in higher education and research assessment: an international comparative study. British Educational Research Association conference, Manchester.

Oancea, A. (2022) Understanding (the) good (of) research in higher education in times of change and challenge. Keynote to ‘Changing Landscapes in European Higher Education. 5th International Conference (Communication and Education in Knowledge Societies)’. European University Alliances & West University, Timisoara.

Oancea, A. (2022) Research-impact nexuses and thinking beyond the framework. Invited contribution to ‘Rethinking Policy Impact’, Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Oancea, A. (14 June 2022) ‘Higher education and research ecosystems around the world’, invited seminar to Department of Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Relevant CGHE events

2024

ESRC/CGHE Research on Research project (2024) Webinar series:

Webinar 1: Pilgrim-Brown, J. – Working-class Professional Service and Administrative Staff in UK Higher Education: Reflections on Reward, Recognition and Responsibility, 16th April
Webinar 2: Oancea, Robson, Derrick, Xu, Pilgrim-Brown, Charret, Chen, Sum – Findings from the CGHE Research on Research Project , 18 April
Webinar 3: Bayley, J.and Derrick, G. – Research Assessment and Impact, 23 April
Webinar 4: Larivière, V. and Ross-Hellauer, T. – Open Science, 25 April

2023

ESRC/CGHE Research on Research project (2023) Stakeholders workshop: Evidence-informed research assessment reform. 13 September, Oxford

2022

Oancea, A. (chair), Soudien, C., Xu, X., Connell, R. and Beigel, F. (panellists). Broadening the epistemic agenda: equity and diversity in global circuits of knowledge. Panel at the Centre for Global Higher Education annual conference, 24 May 2022. WATCH HERE

Xu, X. (chair) Sharon Stein, Riyad Shahjahan, Solomon Zewolde and David Mills (panellists) Coloniality and racism in higher education, Panel at the Centre for Global Higher Education annual conference, 25 May 2022. WATCH HERE

Robson, J. (April 2022) put together a CGHE four-part webinar series on ‘The Critical Economics of Higher Education’ designed to problematise current economic approaches to HE and discuss alternative economic frameworks.

Marginson, S. (chair). Robson, J. (speaker) Agency, Purposeful Work, and Economic Change: reconceptualising the relationship between HE and the Economy. CGHE Webinar April 2022. WATCH HERE

Marginson, S. (chair). Robson, J. (speaker) Mapping the political economy of digital technology in higher education. CGHE Webinar March 2022. WATCH HERE

2021

Xu, X. (chair). Pan, C. and Welch, A. (speakers) Geopolitical Tensions and their Implications for Australia-China Relations in HE. CGHE webinar December 2021. WATCH HERE.

Callender, C. (chair). Marginson, S. and Xu, X. (speakers) The rise and rise of research in China: what does it mean for China and the world? CGHE webinar November 2021. WATCH HERE.

Oancea, A. (chair), Rodriguez Medina (speaker) On Decentralizing: epistemic authority beyond the centers of knowledge, CGHE webinar September 2021. WATCH HERE.

Oancea, A. (chair). Marginson, S. and Xu, X. (speakers) Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model. CGHE webinar February 2021. WATCH HERE.

2020

Oancea, A. (chair), Derrick, G., Xu, X., Colavizza, G. (panellists) (2020) Global research in the Covid-19 pandemic. CGHE Webinar panel, CGHE, 18 June 2020. WATCH HERE.

CGHE events chaired:

Xu, X. (chair), McCowan, T., Chankseliani, M., Rensimer, L. and Mills, D. (2023) Mapping International Flows of Funding to Education and Research in the Global South. CGHE Annual Conference 22-23 May.

Robson, J. (chair), Watermeyer, R. and Xu, X. (2023) Tertiary education and research amid global crises. CGHE Annual Conference 22-23 May.

Oancea, A. (chair), Soudien, C., Xu, X., Connell, R. and Beigel, F. (2022). Broadening the epistemic agenda: equity and diversity in global circuits of knowledge. Panel at the Centre for Global Higher Education annual conference, 24 May https://youtu.be/dnZR2iUj4KE

Xu, X. (chair) S. Stein, R. Shahjahan, S. Zewolde and D. Mills (Coloniality and racism in higher education, Panel at the Centre for Global Higher Education annual conference, 25 May 2022. https://youtu.be/-tTurIhXKaY

Xu, X. (chair). Pan, C. and Welch, A. (2021) Geopolitical Tensions and their Implications for Australia-China Relations in HE. CGHE webinar December. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZRl_VTlUI

Oancea, A. (chair), R. Medina (2021) On Decentralizing: epistemic authority beyond the centers of knowledge, CGHE webinar September 2021. https://youtu.be/_Tl6oVYna8U

Oancea, A. (chair). Marginson, S. and Xu, X. (2021) Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model. CGHE webinar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFhAPRrd8N4

Oancea, A, (chair), Derrick, G., Xu, X., Colavizza, G. (2020) Global research in the Covid-19 pandemic. Webinar panel, CGHE, 18 June 2020. https://youtu.be/PQ_IkQVmed4