Centre for Higher Education Studies

Director: Dr Tatiana Fumasoli

The CHES Team

Professor Claire Callender
Dr Vincent Carpentier
Dr Tatiana Fumasoli
Dr Gwyneth Hughes
Professor Simon Marginson
Professor Emeritus Sir Peter Scott
Dr Holly Smith
Dr Celia Whitchurch

Administrator

Fatiha El-Ghorri

Visiting academics

Professor Robert Behrens, Visiting Professor
Professor Michael Shattock, Visiting Professor

Emeriti Professors

Professor Emeritus Ron Barnett
Dr Paul Temple, Reader Emeritus
Professor Emeritus Gareth Williams

We welcome academic visitors from across the UK and from around the world, for further information contact Dr Tatiana Fumasoli.

We also have a number of CHES Associates who work with us on different activities.

CHES Associates

Professor Mary Henkel, Visiting Professorial Fellow, UCL Institute of Education
Dr Terri Kim, University of East London
Professor Ian McNay, Emeritus Professor, University of Greenwich
Graeme Wise, Assistant Director - Head of Policy, Universities Alliance

See UCL Research Portal, IRIS for more information about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes.

Our centre conducts funded research into higher education.

Projects

Recent projects include:

• Research on 'Shifting Landscapes: meeting the staff development needs of the changing academic workforce' for the Higher Education Academy
• Discussion document on 'Shifting academic careers: implications for enhancing professionalism in teaching and supporting learning' for the Higher Education Academy
• Review of the National Student Survey for HEFCE, with NatCen and IES
• Managing the Student Experience, for the Higher Education Academy
• Project with LLAKES on student debt, higher education participation and intermediate skills development.

Literature

We also produce books and papers as a contribution to the research literature and other research and scholarly output.

For full details see:

• Featured research
• UCL Research Portal, IRIS for more about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes.

We undertake a wide range of consultancy projects, from one day to several months duration.

Themes

Major themes CHES has recently worked on include:

• theoretical and conceptual issues in higher education
• national and international policy
• higher education operational management
• HE in further education institutions
• professional identities
• the academic profession
• and part-time HE.

Clients

Recent consultancy clients include:

• Higher Education Academy
• HEFCE
• the Leadership Foundation
• the NCDER (China), the DEST (Australia)
• the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• the World Bank
• a variety of universities
• and other HE bodies in the UK and abroad.

See more:

• consultancy case studies

CHES seminar series

The CHES seminars provide a forum for debate and analysis of issues affecting policy, practice and research in higher education, supporting the exchange of views and experiences across higher education.

• See seminar series schedule

Doctoral seminar series

This doctoral seminar series offers an opportunity for PhD and EdD students in the field of Higher Education Studies to present their research: in the beginning illustrating their literature reviews and research questions towards the upgrade, at an intermediate stage on theoretical, analytical and methodological issues and towards the end of their doctorate to report and discuss their findings.

Doctoral students, research associates and members of the faculty are welcome to attend and contribute to the ongoing conversation on higher education at IOE.

If you are interested in delivering a presentation in the 2018/19 CHES Doctoral Seminar Series, please contact Dr Tatiana Fumasoli.

• See all upcoming CHES events