The public good role of higher education
27 March 2024, 9:00 am–5:45 pm
Join this event to hear speakers discuss the public good role of higher education.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Emily Betz
Location
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Drama StudioUCL IOE20 Bedford WayLondonWC1H 0AL
This conference will discuss the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education's Project 8: Local and Global Public Good of Higher Education, a 10-nation study.
Speakers
- Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford.
- Vincent Carpentier is a Reader in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.
- Elisa Brewis is a Research Associate at CGHE.
- Aline Courtois is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath.
- Lin Tian is a Research Associate on CGHE Project 8.
- Lili Yang is an assistant professor at Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong.
- Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at Oxford.
- Debbie McVitty is Editor of Wonkhe.
- 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.
- Olga Munn is a co-convenor of the Philosophy of Education Reading Group at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.
- Dorothy Ferary is Vice Rector for Research, Community Engagement, and Collaboration at Satya Terra Bhinneka University, Indonesia.
- Professor Melanie Walker is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Cape Town.
- Jamie Arrowsmith leads Universities UK International (UUKi) which exists to enable UK universities to flourish internationally through their unique ability to represent them and act in their collective interests.
- Hilligje van’t Land serves the global higher education community as Secretary General of the International Association of Universities (IAU).
- Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela is a full time professor at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile.
- Krystian Szadkowski is senior researcher at Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland).
- Rebecca Schendel is Managing Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College (USA).
- Darcie Jones is the current Vice President Education at the University of Plymouth Students Union.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, policymakers and students.