CGHE Conference on ‘The public good role of higher education’
- Vincent Carpentier, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society
- Simon Marginson, University of Oxford
- Elisa Brewis, CGHE, Department of Education, University of Oxford
- Aline Courtois, Department of Education at the University of Bath
- Lin Tian, Hunan University, China
- Lili Yang, University of Hong Kong
- Michael Shattock, University of Oxford
- Debbie McVitty, Wonkhe
- Chris Millward, University of Birmingham
- Olga Mun, St Edmund Hall
- Dorothy Ferary, Satya Terra Bhinneka University, Indonesia
- Professor Melanie Walker, University of the Free State
- Jamie Arrowsmith, UUKi
- Hilligje van’t Land, International Association of Universities, International Universities Bureau
- Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Universidad de Tarapacá
- Krystian Szadkowski, Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
- Rebecca Schendel, Center for International Higher Education
- Darcie Jones, University of Plymouth Students Union
We have now reached full capacity for the conference. Any further registrations will be placed on a waiting list. In the event that space becomes available due to cancellations or changes, we will be in touch.
ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education Project 8: Local and Global Public Good of Higher Education, a 10-nation study
08.30
Registration
09.00 – 09.45
The public and common good in a multi-polar world in existential crisis: What are the contributions of higher education?
Chair: Vincent Carpentier (UCL Institute of Education)
Speaker: Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)
View presentation slides
Read speech
9.45 – 11.15
Reports from CGHE Project 8: A 10-nation study on higher education and the local and global public good
Chair: Elisa Brewis (University of Oxford)
Speakers, panel on Anglophone nations/the Americas: Simon Marginson (UK), Rebecca Schendel (USA), Elisa Brewis (Canada), Carolina Guzman-Valenzuela (Chile)
Speakers, panel on Europe: Vincent Carpentier & Aline Courtois (France), Krystian Szadkowski (Poland), Elisa Brewis (Finland)
Speakers, panel on East Asia: Olga Mun (South Korea), Lin Tian (China), Lilan Chen (Japan)
View presentation slides on Higher education and public good: The case of the UK (England)
Read speech on Higher education and public good: The case of the UK (England)
11.15 – 11.30
BREAK
11.30 – 12.00
Panel Discussion: Comparison of similarities and differences between the national cases
Chair: Elisa Brewis (University of Oxford)
Speakers: Rebecca Schendel (Boston College), Lili Yang (University of Hong Kong), Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)
View presentation slides on Comparison between eight countries and transpositional analysis
Read speech on Comparison between eight countries and transpositional analysis
View presentation slides on The Public Good in French Higher Education
12.00 -13.00
World Cafe Discussion: Reflections on the public good and higher education
Breakout groups (40 min) followed by Plenary report back (20 min)
Which aspects of the public role of higher education resonate in your institutional/organisational context?
Are there useful ideas for the public good work of higher education in the national cases other than your own?
Chair: Elisa Brewis (University of Oxford)
13.00 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 14.30
Panel on the public good of higher education in England
In England, how can we enhance the contributions of higher education and knowledge to public good?
Chair: Mike Shattock (UCL Institute of Education)
Speakers: Debbie McVitty (WonkHE), Chris Millward (University of Birmingham), Darcie Jones (University of Plymouth Student Union)
14:30-15:30
World Cafe Discussion: Reflections on the public good and higher education in the UK
Breakout groups (40 min) followed by Plenary report back (20 min)
In England, how can we enhance the contributions of higher education and knowledge to public good?
Chair: Mike Shattock (UCL Institute of Education)
15.30 -15.45
BREAK
15.45-16.15
Panel on the public, common and ecological good of higher education in decolonising contexts
Chair: Olga Mun (University of Oxford)
Speakers: Dorothy Ferary (Universitas Satya Terra Bhinneka Indonesia / UCL Institute of Education), Melanie Walker (University of the Free State)
16.15 – 16.35
Panel on global public good and global common good, including measures
Chair: Jamie Arrowsmith (UUK international)
Speakers: Lin Tian (Hunan University), Hilligje Van’t Land (International Association of Universities)
16.35 – 17.35
World Cafe Discussion: Reflections on global public good and common good
Breakout groups (40 min) followed by Plenary report back (20 min)
How can we enhance the contributions of higher education and knowledge to global public and common good?
Chair: Jamie Arrowsmith (UUK international)
17.35 – 17.45
Closing remarks
Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)
17.45 – 18.30
Refreshment and networking
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Elisa Brewis is a Research Associate at CGHE and is currently working on Project 8 ‘Local and global public good of higher education: A 10 nation study’.
Aline Courtois is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. She holds a PhD in Sociology from University College Dublin and Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
Olga is a co-convenor of the Philosophy of Education Reading Group at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. Olga’s main research interest is in the topics of epistemic injustice across all levels of education and across national borders with a focus on higher education and the process of knowledge production in academic institutes and universities. Her core interest lies between the areas of social epistemology, research on research (RoR) and comparative and international education (CIE). She has been a recipient of multiple research awards in the United States and the United Kingdom and is an elected co-convenor of the Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group at the British Educational Research Association (BERA).
Dorothy Ferary is Vice Rector for Research, Community Engagement, and Collaboration at Satya Terra Bhinneka University, Indonesia. Her background is in development studies and her research interests are gender and development, decolonising and inclusive higher education (including integrating local wisdom in research, teaching, and community engagement), and language.
Professor Melanie Walker is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Cape Town, where she completed her PhD after teaching at disadvantaged secondary schools for a number of years. She joined the University of the Free State in February 2012 as Senior Research Professor in Higher Education and Human Development. In 2013 she was appointed as NRF Chair in Higher Education and Human Development. She is an Al-rated NRF researcher.
Jamie leads Universities UK International (UUKi) which exists to enable UK universities to flourish internationally through their unique ability to represent them and act in their collective interests.
Dr. Hilligje van’t Land serves the global higher education community as Secretary General of the International Association of Universities (IAU) – global NGO with UNESCO Associate Status. IAU celebrated it’s 70th Anniversary from 9 December 2020 to 9 December 2021. For the past two decades, she has fostered the key role of higher education in societal transformation. She supervises the overall programme activities of the IAU, develops the Association’s strategic plans and oversees the everyday work of the secretariat. She positioned the IAU as partner in UNESCO work on Education for sustainable development and in the UNESCO Futures of Education initiative, and higher education as a key stakeholder for the UN Agenda 2030 – Transforming our world. Hilligje van’t Land strongly believes in the importance of international cooperation and intercultural understanding and has developed multilateral projects related higher education and beyond.
Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela is a full time professor at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile. Her research over the last 12 years has focused on the public-private divide, the decolonisation of universities, the production of social science knowledge, and internationalisation, with a particular focus on Chile and Latin America.
Krystian Szadkowski is senior researcher at Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland). His interests cover Marxist political economy and transformations of higher education systems in Central Eastern Europe.
Rebecca Schendel is Managing Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College (USA). Her scholarship focuses on the impact of higher education on human development in resource-poor contexts, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa.
Darcie Jones is the current Vice President Education at the University of Plymouth Students Union. As the first in her family to attend university, she uses her platform to campaign on issues affecting students from underrepresented backgrounds, with a large focus on lobbying on behalf of commuter students to highlight the disadvantages the student group face, particularly in light of the cost-of-living crisis. She also commits herself to speaking out on the experiences of working-class student leaders in Higher Education and highlighting the need for better support for WC student leaders in enabling them to use sector resources to enact effective change.
