Social and economic impact of higher education

Project 1
International Student Funding Network
Project 1
Graduate Experiences of Employability and Knowledge (GEEK) Project
Project 1.1
Local and global public good contributions of higher education: a comparative study in six national systems
Project 1.2
Internationalisation of HE as a public good: a comparative study in four national systems
Project 1.3
Higher education’s engagement with industry: metrics and indicators of boundary spanning UK academics
Project 1.4
The governance of higher education in Europe and the UK
Project 1.5
UK international graduates from East Asia: careers, earnings, jobs and mobility
Project 1.6
Pathways to personal and public good: understanding access to, student experiences of, and outcomes from South African undergraduate higher education
Project 2
Realising the potential of digital technology for scaling up higher education
Project 2.1
Higher education participation and macro-economic fluctuations: a historical and comparative study
Project 2.2
HE choices and post-HE destinations to age 25: parental background and effects of higher education funding reform in the UK
Project 2.3
The heterogeneity of the graduate labour market in UK and Europe
Project 2.4
The effects of student loan debt on graduates’ financial and life decisions in the UK and USA
Project 2.5
Issues in the economics of higher education financing
Project 3
Research on Research: the research function and mission of higher education
Project 3.1
Alternative, emerging and cross-border higher education provision and its relationship with mainstream provision
Project 3.2
The future higher education workforce in locally and globally engaged HEIs
Project 3.3
Knowledge, curriculum and student agency
Project 3.4
The transformative potential of MOOCs and contrasting online pedagogies
Project 3.5
Brexit, trade, migration and higher education
Project 4
Graduate labour market and equity
Project 5
Student loan debt and graduate decision-making
Project 6
The impact of locality and region on university governance
Project 7
A historical lens on higher education staffing: UK and France
Project 8
Local and global public good of higher education: 10 nation study
Project 9
Mapping supranational higher education space
Project 10
UK international graduates in mass media and public perceptions: A comparative study of the UK, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Social and economic impact of higher education

This research programme investigates the ways in which higher education can lead to greater equality and social mobility, and how policy can anticipate its social and economic effects. Claire Callender leads this programme.
2015-2020
Global higher education engagement
Social and economic impact of higher education
Local higher education engagement
2020-2024
2024-2029