Keynote Speakers
Speakers
.jpg) |
Professor Marek Kwiek
|
Keynote Address |
Post-keynote Address Interview |
 |
 |
Plenary 1. Wednesday 5th December
Social Stratification in Higher Education:What It Means at the Micro-Level of Individual Academics
Marek Kwiek, Professor and Director of the Center for Public Policy Studies, Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy, University of Poznan, Poland.
Marek has been a Principal Investigator or country Team Leader in 25 international higher education research projects (funded by the European Commission; the European Science Foundation; and several international foundations). His research focus is changing university funding and governance, public sector reforms, and the academic profession. His most recent monograph, Changing European Academics: A Comparative Study of Social Stratification, Work Patterns and Research Productivity, is forthcoming from Routledge (October 2018). He published in Science and Public Policy, Scientometrics, Comparative Education Review, Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Studies in International Education, etc.
Marek was a Fulbright Foundation scholar (University of Virginia), Kosciuszko Foundation scholar (University of California, Berkeley) and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow (National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, DC). He was also a Fulbright New Century Scholar (NCS) from 2007 to 2008.
Marek is an editorial board member for Higher Education Quarterly, European Educational Research Journal, British Educational Research Journal, and European Journal of Higher Education. Marek is also an international higher education policy expert for the European Commission, USAID, the OECD, the World Bank, UNESCO, OSCE, the Council of Europe, national governments, and higher education institutions and a higher-education reforms advisor in 12 countries.
 |
Professor John Taylor
|
Keynote Address |
Post-keynote Address Interview |
 |
 |
Having had over 20 years of experience as a senior manager in higher education, working at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and Southampton, John’s academic career began at the University of Bath, then as Professor of Higher Education Management and Policy at the University of Southampton. Prior to his current role at Lancaster university, John was Professor of Higher Education Management and Special Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool. This combination of high level practical management experience and international recognition for teaching and research provides an unusual and distinctive approach to the study of higher education, combining a practical understanding of leadership and management issues and higher education policy with cutting edge research.
John’s most recent publication is a book entitled The Impact of the First World War on British Universities: Emerging from the Shadows, which was published earlier this year by Palgrave Macmillan.
 |
Professor Kalwant Bhopal
|
Keynote Address |
Post-keynote Address Interview |
 |
 |
Plenary 2. Thursday 6th December
Challenging ‘excellence’ in higher education: racism, inclusion and white privilege
Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education in the School of Education. Kalwant’s research focuses on the achievements and experiences of minority ethnic groups in education. She has conducted research on exploring discourses of identity and intersectionality examining the lives of Black minority ethnic groups as well as examining the marginal position of Gypsies and Travellers. Her research specifically explores how processes of racism, exclusion and marginalisation operate in predominantly White spaces with a focus on social justice and inclusion. She is Visiting Professor at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education and Visiting Professor at Kings College London (Department of Education and Professional Studies). Her book White Privilege: the myth of a post racial society was recently published by Policy Press.
 |
|
Keynote Address |
Post-keynote Address Interview |
 |
 |
Plenary 2. Thursday 6th December
The prestige claims of UK universities: rhetoric and reality
Vikki Boliver is a Professor of Sociology at Durham University. Professor Boliver leads projects on fairness in university admission funded by the ESRC and the Nuffield Foundation; on private providers of higher education in the UK as a member of the Centre for Global Higher Education; and the UK component of a multi-country study of the effects of educational tracking on labour market outcomes funded by NORFACE. She is best known for her work on socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in admission to highly selective universities, on widening access through the use of contextualised admissions policies, and on patterns and processes of social mobility.
.jpg) |
Professor Ellen Hazelkorn
|
Keynote Address |
Post-keynote Address Interview |
 |
 |
Plenary 2. Thursday 6th December
Does a world-class university strategy lift all boats?
Ellen Hazelkorn is Emeritus Professor and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland) and works as an education policy consultant (BH Associates Education Consultants). She is International Co-Investigator, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education, London, and Research Fellow, Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA. She was policy advisor to, and board member of, the Higher Education Authority (Ireland), 2011-2017, and President of EAIR (European Society for Higher Education), 2013-2016. She has over 15 years’ experience working with international organizations and governments, and 20 years’ experience as Vice President, Dublin Institute of Technology (1995-2014). Ellen is a board member of national agencies, university and higher education/research organizations, and has led and/or been involved in national/institutions reviews and policy advice.
Ellen is internationally recognized for her writings and analysis of rankings on higher education and policy: Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2015), and editor, Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education (Routledge 2016). Other recent publications include: co-author, The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); and co-editor, The Civic University: Meeting the Leadership and Management Challenges (Edward Elgar 2016). She is co-editor of Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education (Edward Elgar 2017 forthcoming).
 |
Professor Louise Morley
|
Keynote Address |
|
 |
Plenary 3, Friday 7th December
Changing the Shape of Higher Education: Troubling Neoliberalism and Imagining Alternativity
Louise Morley FAcSS is a Professor of Education and Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/) at the University of Sussex, UK. Louise has an international profile in the field of the sociology of gender in higher education, and has made keynote conference presentations on five continents.
Her current research interests focus on internationalisation and equity, the equity and affective implications of the neoliberal university, and higher education as a public good. She is Principal Investigator for the CHEER Project Higher Education Knowledge Exchange and Policy Learning in the Asian Century (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/japan), and is a Co-Investigator for an ESRC Newton Fund research project on Higher Education and the Public Good: Reflections from Four African Contexts. She is leading the University of Gothenburg’s project on Fika in the Swedish Neoliberalised University, and is also participating in a new research network with Chile and Denmark: Internationalization and Knowledge Construction in Higher Education from a Gender Perspective co-ordinated by the Pontifical Catholic University, Chile.
She has recently completed a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded project Higher Education Internationalisation and Mobility: Inclusions, Equalities and Innovations (HEIM) (www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/heim). During her career she has undertaken research on women and leadership in higher education for the British Council and for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education on women and leadership, for the ESRC/DFID on Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania (www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/wphegt), for the ESRC on knowledge exchange, the HEFCE on graduate employability and for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Department for International Development on Gender Equity in Commonwealth Universities.
Louise is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education. She was a Guest Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2016-18), a Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Gender Excellence, University of Örebro, Sweden (2011), and the 2013-2014 Inaugural Chair, Women’s Leadership Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia. In 2018-2019, she will be a Guest Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland. Louise has published widely in the field of higher education studies. See Sussex Research Online- http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/view/creators/461.html
the global higher education research community…