Professor Alis Oancea
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.
In recent years, she was Director of Research in the Department of Education and REF2021 coordinator for the unit. Through scholarly and professional collaborations, she hopes to champion knowledge, justice, generosity and integrity in research practices and discourses, research policy and research leadership and cultures in different types of organisation. She has led and collaborated on research projects, change and development initiatives, and administrative processes on impact and knowledge exchange, and held advisory and leadership roles in education reform and research assessment. She has conducted research on research ecosystems, values in research, open knowledge, impact, ethics and integrity, epistemic diversity, research careers, understandings of quality and excellence, research assessment, research in teacher education, philosophy of research, and responsible research and engagement. Contributions to the integration and development of the field of meta-research include the collaborative production of the Handbook of Meta-Research (2024).
Funded work includes studies of interpretations and practices of research quality and ‘excellence’ and of research impact in the full range of disciplines; responsible knowledge exchange, impact and engagement; comparative analyses of principles, strategies and mechanisms for research assessment internationally; the impacts of successive RAEs on institutional, departmental and individual academic behaviours; interpretations of cultural value from arts and humanities research (AHRC); reviews of the current state of, and future prospects for, education research (including the BERA Observatory and the BA/RS landscape review); quality and ethics in applied and practice-based research; research cultures; the roles of the social sciences within innovation ecosystems. She is interested in research on higher education, contemporary challenges for philosophy of education and research, and science and technology studies.
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- Webinar 2 | CGHE Research on Research Project
- CGHE Webinar Series: Research on Research Project
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model
- WEBINAR PANEL — Global research in the Covid-19 pandemic
- CGHE series on international and global higher education – seminar 4: Similarities and differences
