The public good role of higher education

This conference will discuss the ESRC Centre for Global Higher Education's Project 8: Local and Global Public Good of Higher Education, a 10-nation study.

Speakers

• Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford.
• Vincent Carpentier is a Reader in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.
• Elisa Brewis is a Research Associate at CGHE. 
• Aline Courtois is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath.
• Lin Tian is a Research Associate on CGHE Project 8.
• Lili Yang is an assistant professor at Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong.
• Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at Oxford. 
• Debbie McVitty is Editor of Wonkhe.
• Chris Millward is Professor of Practice in Education Policy at the University of Birmingham where he leads a group of researchers working on educational equity in policy and practice.
• Olga Munn is a co-convenor of the Philosophy of Education Reading Group at the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.
• Dorothy Ferary is Vice Rector for Research, Community Engagement, and Collaboration at Satya Terra Bhinneka University, Indonesia.
• Professor Melanie Walker is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of Cape Town.
• Jamie Arrowsmith leads Universities UK International (UUKi) which exists to enable UK universities to flourish internationally through their unique ability to represent them and act in their collective interests.
• Hilligje van’t Land serves the global higher education community as Secretary General of the International Association of Universities (IAU).
• Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela is a full time professor at the Universidad de Tarapacá in Chile.
• Krystian Szadkowski is senior researcher at Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland).
• Rebecca Schendel is Managing Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College (USA).
• Darcie Jones is the current Vice President Education at the University of Plymouth Students Union.

This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, policymakers and students.

Related links

• Centre for Global Higher Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society