CGHE Webinar 99

What is the value of international HE research?

Date: Thursday, 31 January 2019 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location: Room 828, UCL Institute of Education

Speaker(s):

To celebrate the end of the first hundred seminars conducted under the aegis of the Centre for Global Higher Education, we are putting together a panel of CGHE researchers to discuss the very raison d’être of the research centre. Simon Marginson, Director of CGHE, Tristan McCowan, Deputy Director of CGHE, and Lorraine Dearden, a Co-Investigator on CGHE’s social and economic impact of higher education research programme, and Head of Quantitative Social Science at UCL Institute of Education, will be debating the value of international higher education research. The conversation will include such considerations as the importance of international higher education research for development and policy.

Claire Callender, Deputy Director of CGHE, will chair the debate.

Booking

All seminars are free and open to the public. No advance booking required.

Professor Lorraine Dearden

Lorraine Dearden is Professor of Economics at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 2.2, ‘HE choices and post-HE destinations to age 25: parental background and effects of higher education funding reform in the UK’.

Professor Simon Marginson

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, founding Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, and a Professorial Associate with the University of Melbourne. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, the global science system, higher education in East Asia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and social inequality. Simon led CGHE’s project 8 which investigated the public good role of higher education in ten countries. The project found that while a broad notion of public good has been largely emptied out of policy in the English-speaking countries, where economic definitions of individualised pecuniary value are dominant, recognition of the broader individual and collective outcomes of higher education continues in different ways in other jurisdictions including France, Finland, South Korea and China. The study in England discovered however that despite the narrow economic framing used by Westminster policy makers, both higher education practitioners and policy professionals believe that higher education makes a large and multiple contribution to both national and global public goods.

Professor Tristan McCowan

Tristan McCowan is Professor of International Education at the Institute of Education, University College London. His work focuses on higher education in the international context, including issues of access, curriculum, alternative models and sustainability. His CGHE Project 9 explored the supranational space in higher education – the ways in which this space is formed and developed above or beyond nation-states, the actors that form this space, and the resource and knowledge flows within this space, and between the national, regional, and supranational spaces.