Staff

Director

• Professor Tatiana Fumasoli

CHES team

• Dr Annette Bamberger from 1/1/2026
• Professor Vincent Carpentier
• Dr Gwyneth Hughes
• Dr Evelyn Kim
• Professor Paul Morris
• Professor Victoria Showunmi
• Dr Holly Smith

Associate members

• Dr Will Brehm – University of Canberra
• Dr Andrea Detmer – International HE consultant
• Professor Adam Dubis – University of Utah Health and UCL Honorary Professor
• Dr Kaiyun Feng – King’s College London
• Professor Richard Freeman – CDE Centre for Doctoral Education, UCL IOE
• Professor Magda Hercheui – UCL School of Management
• Dr Huw Morris, Social Research Institute, UCL IOE
• Professor Abel Nyamapfene – Education, Practice and Society, UCL IOE
• Dr Michael Plouffe – Department of Political Science, UCL
• Prof Davide Ravasi – UCL School of Management
• Professor Richard Watermeyer – University of Bristol

PhD students

• Junic Kim – Redefining university business model: A platform-based approach
• Jiajie Liu – Early career academics identity development and experience between teaching and research
• Eric Man – Global Business Schools: strategic positioning and distinctiveness
• Joel McConnell – Universities and digital transformation: the role of corporate skill assessment
• Taixing Shen – Universities’ strategic engagement in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
• Dinara Sultan – The role of the board of directors in universities in Kazakhstan
• Yu Yang – Job mismatch for engineering PhD holders in the UK, US and China
• Tao Zou – The link between trade openness and international student mobility