Professor William Locke
William Locke is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 3.1, ‘Alternative, emerging and cross-border higher education provision and its relationship with mainstream provision’.
William Locke is Professor and Director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education (Melbourne CSHE) at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, he was Director of the Centre for Higher Education Studies and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London and remains an International Co-Investigator for CGHE. He is Joint Editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education. William’s research interests include the governance and management of HEIs; the changing academic profession; HE policy and policy-making; the influence of marketisation and rankings systems on HEIs and systems.
CGHE publications
- Changing Higher Education for a Changing World
- Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making
- Early career social science researchers: experiences and support needs
- The future higher education workforce in locally and globally engaged higher education institutions: a review of literature on the topic of ‘the academic workforce’
- A delicate balance: optimising individual aspirations and institutional missions in higher education
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- Whither the Academic Profession?
- Changing Higher Education for a Changing World: A Book Symposium in West Pacific
- CGHE BOOK LAUNCH: Changing Higher Education for a Changing World
- CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar: Academic work and careers online and offline
- Early career social science researchers: experiences and support needs
Select recent publications
- Kehm, B., Freeman, R.P.J. and Locke, W. (2018) ‘Growth and Diversification of Doctoral Education in the United Kingdom’, in Shin, J.C., Kehm, B.M. and Jones, G.A. (eds) Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society: Convergence or Divergence in National Approaches?, The Netherlands: Springer, 105-121.
- ‘There is a world out there we can step into’: the University of Reading (UK) and the world rankings
The global academic rankings game: changing institutional policy, practice, and academic life, March 2016 - Shifting landscapes: meeting the staff development needs of the changing academic workforce
The Higher Education Academy, January 2016 - Paying the price of expansion: why more for undergraduates in England means less for everyone
Dimensions of marketisation in higher education, November 2015 - Changing governance and management in higher education: the perspectives of the academy
Springer, 2011
