Centre for Global Higher Education

Our centre

Director: Professor Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)

Deputy Directors: Professor Claire Callender (IOE and Birkbeck) and Professor Paul Ashwin (Lancaster University)

The Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) is an international research centre focused on higher education and its future development. Its research aims to inform and improve higher education policy and practice.

CGHE is a research partnership of 15 UK and international universities and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, with support from Office for Students and Research England.

Its 10 research projects integrate local, national and global perspectives, and its researchers are based in nine countries across five continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America.

Objectives

• Conduct and publish basic and applied research across 10 integrated research projects.
• Build theory about higher education and new methods of inquiry and research.
• Respond to issues arising within the frame of the 10 research projects.
• Maximise its impacts in higher education policy in the four UK nations and worldwide. 

Background

CGHE’s research integrates local, national and global perspectives on higher education, each having major policy implications.

During the first phase of CGHE between 2015 and 2020, research was organised into three research programmes: Global higher education engagement, Social and economic impact of higher education, and Local higher education engagement.

For the Transition Centre phase of CGHE between 2020 and 2023, research is organised into 10 international higher education research projects, featuring eight projects from the previous CGHE centre and two new projects.