Research events

The CHES research events provide a forum for academic debate, policy analysis and practice insight in higher education, supporting the exchange of theories, methods and data across social sciences.

Schedule

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, CHES research events will be held online on Zoom during the academic year 2020/21.

The events are free to attend. For information and to register to the research events, please email ioe.ches_seminar@ucl.ac.uk

Upcoming events 2020/2021

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 12-2pm 

• Seminar: Digital wayfaring: post-human knowledge practices in higher education - Professor Lesley Gourlay (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 24 February 2021,12-2pm 

• Seminar: Leadership and identity - Dr Victoria Showunmi (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 12-2pm 

• CHES doctoral seminar - Hugh Kilmister, Kaiyun Feng and Alison Wheaton (PhD students at the UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 10am-2pm 

• CHES symposium: Strategy in higher education: global and national perspectives

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 12-2pm 

•  Seminar: Framing artificial intelligence futures: implications for higher education -  Dr Inga Ulnicane

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12-2pm 

• CHES doctoral seminar - speakers to be confirmed

See all forthcoming CHES events

Previous events

2019-20

Wednesday 2 October 2019, 5:30-7pm

• Seminar: Studying similarities and differences in higher education organisations based on their websites - Dr Predrag Lažetić (University of Bath)

Wednesday 6 November 2019, 5:30-7pm

• Seminar: Falling through the cracks? Gender inequality, precarious work and higher education research - Dr Aline Courtois (University of Bath)

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 12-2pm

• Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) doctoral seminar - Sally Holt (UCL Institute of Education), Katia Nielsen (University of Copenhagen) and Paola Eiras (University of Surrey)

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 5:30-7pm

• Seminar: Scale and scope of private providers in English higher education - Dr Stephen Hunt (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 12:30-2pm

• Seminar: Young people within European higher education systems: contested constructions - Professor Rachel Brooks (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 6 May 2020, 10am-3:30pm

• Symposium: Understanding patterns of expansion and retrenchment in internationalisation of higher education - full speaker list on the event page

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 12-2pm

• Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) doctoral seminar - Amanda Walker, Ayse Gur Geden, Kaiyun Feng, and Alison Wheaton (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 10:30am-3:30pm

• Symposium: What is global leadership in higher education? - full speaker list on the event page

2019-18

Wednesday 3 October 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Re-claiming the mission of the civic university in the 21st century - Professor Mary Stuart CBE (University of Lincoln)

Wednesday 7 November 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Does it have a price tag? Student perceptions of a value-for-money higher education - Elizabeth Staddon (University of the Arts London)

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 5:30-7pm

• The neoliberal turn in higher education research and writing - Professor Malcolm Tight (Lancaster University)

Wednesday 9 January 2019, 5:30-7pm

• The promise and politics of meta-research - Professor James Wilsdon (University of Sheffield)

Wednesday 6 February 2019, 5:30-7pm

• Does proximity affect the impact of university-industry collaborations? - Dr Federica Rossi (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 6 March 2019, 5:30-7pm

• Varieties of European universities' engagement with social media platforms - Dr Janja Komljenovic (Lancaster University)

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 5:30-7pm

• The strength of weak expertise: understanding the influence of global university rankers - Dr Miguel Antonio Lim (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 1 May 2019, 5:30-7pm

• Transnationalisation of higher education through quality assurance - Dr Eva Hartmann (University of Cambridge)

2017-18

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 5:30-7pm

• Equal competition among unequals: strategic positioning of higher education institutions - Dr Tatiana Fumasoli (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 10 January 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Paradoxes of competitive accountability: The deleterious effects of the REF to science and society - Dr Richard Watermeyer (University of Bath)

Wednesday 7 February 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Beyond allocation: the evolving purposes of UK research assessment - James Wilsdon (University of Sheffield) and Dr Steven Hill (Higher Education Funding Council for England)

Wednesday 7 March 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Why universities should seek happiness and contentment - Professor Paul Gibbs (Middlesex University)

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Contracting with students? Re-thinking higher education as invitation to treat - Dr Amanda Fulford (Leeds Trinity University)

Wednesday 2 May 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Forensic and agent accountability in HE - Dr Morgan White 

Wednesday 6 June 2018, 5:30-7pm

• Researcher Developers: An emerging third-space profession? - Dr Richard Freeman (UCL Institute of Education) and Dr Anna Price (Queen Mary University of London)

Contact us 

If you have any questions, please contact: ioe.ches_seminar@ucl.ac.uk