Workshop

(INVITE ONLY) Student funding: New insights into tackling the challenges ahead

Date: Monday, 22 January 2024 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location: Central London

Speaker(s):

Please note that the event is now at full capacity and registration is closed.

The aims of this seminar are:

to bring together an international community of researchers from wide ranging disciplines and at different stages of their career to engage with the complex issues involved in student funding
to exchange ideas and explore intersections and new directions across lines of work
to build new relationships with scholars researching similar issues

Participants will explore what topics and issues are missing in debates about student funding, and the gaps in our knowledge and understanding of student financial support and its consequences for students, graduates, governments and HE institutions.

For any queries, please contact Emily Betz e.betz@ucl.ac.uk or Claire Callender claire.callender@ucl.ac.uk

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Professor Claire Callender

Claire Callender is Professor of Higher Education Studies at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. She is a Deputy Director of CGHE. Claire led on CGHE Project 5, ‘Student loan debt and graduate decision-making’ which explored the impact of income-contingent student loan debt on English graduates’ lives using both quantitative and qualitative methods. It showed how loan debt can have negative effects on graduates’ lives.

Dr Ariane de Gayardon

Ariane de Gayardon is Assistant Professor at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the financing of higher education internationally and its interaction with equity, including topics such as free higher education and student debt.

Gavan Conlon

Gavan Conlon is a Partner at London Economics and co-head of the Education and Labour Markets Practice. He specialises in the analysis of HE fees and funding, having delivered numerous research projects on the impact of policy changes across all four home nations.

Krzysztof Czarnecki

Krzysztof Czarnecki is a political scientist (MA) and economist (PhD). He works as a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and holds an assistant professorship at the Institute of Socio-Economics at Poznań University of Economics and Business.

Konstantin Dulin

Konstantin Dulin is a doctoral researcher at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and a trained high school teacher. His current research focuses on the interaction between financial markets and higher education institutions. Furthermore, his research interests encompass the financialization of education, educational policy, and comparative political economy.

Farhana Ghaffar

Farhana Ghaffar is a researcher and evaluator specialising in social mobility and inequality within Higher Education and the arts. Her research draws upon collaborative, creative and participatory research methods and she has worked on a diverse range of community research projects.

Dr Kamlesh Goyal

Dr Kamlesh Goyal is currently working as a Senior Research Associate-Post Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. At CETE-TISS, he works on the Innovative Finances for Education to Leave No One Behind (IFE-2-LNOB) project.

Christopher Grillo

Christopher Grillo is the Associate Dean for Finance and Administration in the Connell School of Nursing and an adjunct faculty member in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. As the chief operating officer of the Connell School since 2015, he helps oversee all non-academic aspects of the school. He has taught Nonprofit Management, a survey course, to MBA, MSA and MSF students.

Dr Nicholas Hillman

Nicholas Hillman is a Professor in the School of Education and Director of the SSTAR Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hillman’s research focuses on higher education finance and policy in the United States.

Elisabeth Hovdhaugen

Elisabeth Hovdhaugen is a research professor at Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) in Oslo, Norway. She has over 20 years of experience in educational research and holds a PhD in Sociology from University of Oslo.

Dr Thandi Lewin

Thandi Lewin is a CGHE Deputy Director and an Associate Professor at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Johannesburg. She has come into academia relatively late, following a career as a civil servant.

Chris Millward

Chris Millward is Professor of Practice in Education Policy at the University of Birmingham where he leads a group of researchers working on educational equity in policy and practice. He is a Deputy Director of CGHE .

Kate Ogden

Kate Ogden is a Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), where she works on higher education, including policy work on the student finance system in England (and increasingly Scotland) and academic work estimating the lifetime earnings returns to higher education.

Héctor Ríos-Jara

Héctor Ríos-Jara has his PhD in Social Sciences from the Institute of Education, University College of London and his MSc in Social Research Methodology from the University of Bristol.

Professor the Baroness Alison Wolf

Professor the Baroness Alison Wolf CBE is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. She sits as a cross-bench peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) in the UK House of Lords.