Research
Research activities in the Centre for Higher Education Studies.
Publications
A selection of recent publications from CHES members:
- 2027 – (guest editors, special issue, forthcoming) Reconciling Marketisation: Plotting post-market reform and a new political economy of higher education. Studies in Higher Education. Tatiana Fumasoli and Richard Watermeyer
- 2026 – Is There a Case for the Revival of Public Funding in UK Higher Education? Lessons from History. Globalisation, Societies and Education. Vincent Carpentier
- 2026 – Higher Education’s Geopolitical Agency: A Constructivist Perspective. In C. Y. Gao & W. Shen (Eds.), Reshaping Higher Education Research: Emerging Perspectives and Methodologies. Springer Nature Switzerland. Jingran Yu & Lee Rensimer
- 2026 – Distributed Place Leadership in the Global South. An integrated strategic framework for public value at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Rastros Rostros. Tatiana Fumasoli
- 2026 – Internationalization in Higher Education Beyond the Western Horizon: Critical Perspectives. Comparative Education. Annette Bamberger, Benjamin Mulvey & Fei Yan
- 2026 – Constructing national higher education brands: Korea, India and Israel Compared. European Journal of Education. Annette Bamberger, Evelyn Kim & Sazana Jayadeva
- 2025 – Universities as strategic navigators: place leadership in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Regional Studies. Tatiana Fumasoli & Fumi Kitagawa
- 2025 – (guest editors, special issue). New Models of the University– Innovative Structures, Adaptive Responses, and Strategic Behaviour. Journal of Higher Education Development. Barbara Sporn, Tatiana Fumasoli, René Krempkow & Liudvika Leišytė
- 2025 – A model of selective integration: higher education dynamics in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. Tatiana Fumasoli & Taixing Shen
- 2025 – Conceptualizing nation branding in the field of higher education: A systematic literature review. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education. Evelyn Kim & Annette Bamberger
- 2025 – Higher Education and the Public Good in France”. Higher Education. Higher Education. Vincent Carpentier and Aline Courtois
- 2024 – Critical perspectives on internationalization in higher education: commercialization, global citizenship, or postcolonial imperialism? Critical Studies in Education. Annette Bamberger & Paul Morris
- 2024 – Developing as a teacher: changing conceptions of teaching and the challenges of applying theory to practice. Teaching in Higher Education. Gwyneth Hughes; Baume, David; Silva-Fletcher, Ayona & Linda Amrane-Cooper
- 2024 – Higher education actors’ responses to the Ukraine-Russia conflict: an analysis of geopolitical spatial imaginaries. Journal of Education Policy. Rachel Brooks and Lee Rensimer
- 2024 – Academic workforce in France and the UK in Historical Perspectives. Comparative Education. Vincent Carpentier and Emmanuelle Picard
Public engagement
Examples of public engagement from CHES members to inform policies and practices in higher education:
- 2026 – Roundtable on Funding in Higher Education in France” Association des Directeurs généraux des services d’établissements d’enseignement supérieur, Paris, 30 January. Vincent Carpentier
- 2026 – International students as a national project: how states brand their higher education – Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) News Blog, 5 May. Evelyn Kim, Annette Bamberger and Sazana Jayadeva
- 2026 – “Critical Scholarship and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Quo Vadis?”, International Wednesday, University of Vienna, 13 May. Paul Morris
- 2026 – A new social contract and a revival in public funding for higher education. Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) News Blog, 8 May. Vincent Carpentier
- 2025 – Transnational education: Critical perspectives under the ‘new geopolitics’ paradigm. Panel convenor and presenter, CGHE conference, 7 April. Lee Rensimer
- 2024 – Panellist: Refinancing higher education #HigherEdSeminarSeries Centre for Higher Education Studies (UCL IOE)/Centre for Higher Education Transformation (University of Bristol), 25 September. Vincent Carpentier
- 2023 – Expert witness Projet de Loi de Finances 2024 – Avis budgétaire Enseignement supérieur et vie étudiante, 19 September. Vincent Carpentier
- 2023 – Universités : comment les inégalités se sont renforcées en France et au Royaume-Uni. The Conversation, 23 October. Vincent Carpentier & Emmanuelle Picard
- 2022 – Rethinking the Business Model of Higher Education, QS event Crisis Management: Remaking European higher education amid unfolding social realities. 28–30 June. Tatiana Fumasoli
- 2022 – Universities’ crisis management response to the global pandemic. Bristol Conversations in Education, University of Bristol. 15 June. Tatiana Fumasoli
- 2022 – The globally engaged university: organisational capacity and strategic positioning at times of Covid 19, Institute for Higher Education Management (Vienna) 24 March. Tatiana Fumasoli
Consultancies
We undertake consultancy projects on the topic of policy, governance, management and organisation of Higher Education.
- Tatiana Fumasoli. Lead International Expert and Team Leader: Internationalisation of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Science, and Youth of Georgia; Programme: Innovation, Inclusion and Quality Project with the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) €976,000 (2023–2025)