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

Upcoming events for 2021/22 academic year. As per the current year CHES research events will still be held online on Zoom.

The events are free to attend.

For more information, please email ioe.ches_seminar@ucl.ac.uk

2021/22

Term one

Friday 24 September 2021, 4 to 5:15pm

• Seminar: 'Meet the Editors' Higher Education Quarterly (HEQ): Early Career Researchers Network in Asian Higher Education Studies 

Panellists:
Chair - Dr Jisun Jung (The University of Hong Kong)
Speakers - Dr Tatiana Fumasoli (UCL Institute of Education) and Dr Christine Teelken (VU University Amsterdam)
Discussant - Professor Akiyoshi Yonezawa (Tohoku University).

Friday 1 October 2021, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: 'Meet the Editors' with Professor Tatiana Fumasoli, Editor of Higher Education Quarterly (HEQ) - Professor Tatiana Fumasoli (UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: Academic mavericks in the global marketplace - Dr Anatoly Oleksiyenko (The University of Hong Kong) 

Wednesday 3 November 2021, 12 to 2pm

• CHES doctoral seminar - Dinara Sultan (PhD student, UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: Opening-up as entrepreneurial internationalisation in Chinese higher education - Dr Zhou Zhong (Tsinghua University)

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: Addressing the precarity of research careers - Professor Cláudia S. Sarrico (School of Economics and Management, University of Minho)

Term two

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: University strategic positioning as a veneer obscuring institutional diversity - Dr Julian Zipparo (University of Technology Sydney)

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: International students and Higher Education systems in France and the UK: a historical perspective – Dr Vincent Carpentier (UCL Institute of Education)

Term three

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10am to 2pm

•  CHES symposium (Hosted by UCL, Tohoku University and Tsinghua University): Covid-19 crisis management - speakers tbc

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 12 to 2pm

• Doctoral seminar - speaker tbc

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 12 to 1pm

• Seminar: Agency problems in agent-based international student recruitment - Dr Pii-Tuulia Nikula (Eastern Institute of Technology)

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 10am to 2pm

• CHES symposium: UCL-Birkbeck: Innovation Network - speakers tbc

Wednesday 6 July 2022, time tbc

• CHES Symposium on Higher Education, leadership and equity – Convenor: Dr Victoria Showunmi (UCL Institute of Education) – speakers tbc

Previous events

2020-21

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 12 to 2pm 

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

Wednesday 24 February 2021,12 to 2pm 

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

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 12 to 2pm 

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

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 10am to 2pm 

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

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 12 to 2pm 

• Seminar: Framing artificial intelligence futures: implications for higher education -  Dr Inga Ulnicane (De Montfort University)

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 12 to 2pm 

• CHES doctoral seminar - Andres Perez, Wen Xiaoyu and Cassie Zhang (Doctoral students, UCL Institute of Education)

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 12 to 2pm 

• Seminar: Institutional barriers to participation in EU framework programs - Marco Cavallaro (Doctoral Student, University of Lugano)

Friday 28 May 2021, 10 to 11am

• Academic writing practice: challenges and solutions for doctoral students - Dr Yun Yu (Shanghai Normal University) and Jinyun Lee (UCL Geography)

Part of the Academic writing and publishing for doctoral students series: A UCL ChangeMakers and CHES practical webinar series on the academic writing skills for international postgraduate research (PGR) students.

Wednesday 9 June 2021, 10am to 2pm

• CHES and CDE symposium: Doctoral Education and its purposes: research training for a changing world – full speaker list on the event page

Friday 11 June 2021, 11am to 12pm

• Meeting the expectations of journal editor - Dr Yuwei Xu (UCL Institute of Education) and Dr Sin-Wang Chong (Queen’s University Belfast)

Part of the Academic writing and publishing for doctoral students series.

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 10am to 12:20pm

• UCL and Tohoku University joint symposium: reinventing international university education and the role of globally engaged universities. Dialogues between UK and Japan - full speaker list on event page

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 12 to 1:30pm

• CHES-CDE doctoral seminar (session 1 of 4) - Dr Jim McKinley and Dr Alfonso Del Percio (UCL Institute of Education)

Part of the CHES-CDE Doctoral Seminar Series.

Wednesday 23 June 2021, 12 to 1:30pm

• CHES-CDE doctoral seminar (session 2 of 4) -  Dr Will Gibson and Hao Phan (UCL Institute of Education)

Part of the CHES-CDE Doctoral Seminar Series.

Friday 25 June 2021, 10 to 11am

• Rethinking academic writing from reviewer perspectives - Dr Tinghe Jin (University of East Anglia) and Meng Liu (PhD candidate at University of Cambridge). 

Part of the Academic writing and publishing for doctoral students series.

Wednesday 30 June 2021, 12 to 1:30pm

• CHES-CDE doctoral seminar (session 3 of 4) - Dr Sue Taylor, Dr Tom Woodin and Dr Nicole Brown (UCL Institute of Education)

Part of the CHES-CDE Doctoral Seminar Series.

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 12 to 1:30pm

• CHES-CDE doctoral seminar (session 4 of 4) - Dr Giulio Marini, Dr Tatiana Fumasoli and Dr Victoria Showunmi (UCL Institute of Education)

Part of the CHES-CDE Doctoral Seminar Series.

Friday 16 July 2021, 11am to 12pm

• Navigating your academic trajectory in Hong Kong - Dr Jisun Jung (University of Hong Kong) and Dr Weiyan Xiong (Lingnan University)

Part of the UCL Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) and Chinese Educational Research Association (CERA) Summer Webinar Series.

Friday 23 July 2021, 11am to 12pm

• Navigating your academic trajectory: Mainland China and Japan - Dr Zhou Zhong and Dr Jing Liu

Part of the CHES and CERA Summer Webinar Series.

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

2018-19

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