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0000-0002-6738-3128
Current Organisations
University of Oxford
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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-05-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S11233-023-09123-0
Abstract: This paper assesses how UK universities seek to maintain their global dominant position post-Brexit through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key European institutions as part of their internationalisation strategies. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted from November 2017 to July 2018 in 12 UK universities vertically differentiated and spread along the highly hierarchised spectrum of British universities in all four nations, we aim to examine which types of universities are most inclined to form international comprehensive university-wide strategic partnerships, and how they identify their partners. The analysis is framed within Bourdieu’s theory of “economy of practices” which considers all university practices as economic practices that are ultimately tailored towards maximising either material or symbolic profit. Unlike in business and industry, where organisations traditionally compete to maximise profit, universities must both compete and collaborate with one another in order to improve (or maintain) their position in the field. UK universities will need to navigate the post-Brexit space they find themselves thrown into, and in the process will need to review international institutional links with both European Union (EU) based and non-EU universities. This paper will assess how UK universities seek to maintain their dominant position in the field through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key foreign institutions.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-10-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-05-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-06-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-09-2018
DOI: 10.1111/HEQU.12140
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-09-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-09-2020
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-05-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10734-021-00712-9
Abstract: Since 1990, a large and dynamic global science system has evolved, based on grass roots collaboration, and resting on the resources, infrastructure and personnel housed by national science systems. Euro-American science systems have become intensively networked in a global duopoly and many other countries have built national science systems, including a group of large- and middle-sized countries that follow semi-autonomous trajectories based on state investment, intensive national network building, and international engagement, without integrating tightly into the global duopoly. The dual global/national approach pursued by these systems, including China, South Korea, Iran and India, is not always fully understood in papers on science. Nevertheless, China is now the number two science country in the world, the largest producer of papers and number one in parts of STEM physical sciences. The paper investigates the remarkable evolution of China’s science funding, output, discipline balance, internationalisation strategy and national and global networking. China has combined global activity and the local/national building of science in positive sum manner, on the ground of the nationally nested science system. The paper also discusses limits of the achievement, noting that while China-US relations have been instrumental in building science, a partial decoupling is occurring and the future is unclear.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-10-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-07-2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Date: 2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-11-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10734-022-00955-0
Abstract: The 2002 ‘glonacal’ paper described higher education as a multi-scalar sector where in idual and institutional agents have open possibilities and causation flows from any of the interacting local, national and global scales. None have permanent primacy: global activity is growing the nation-state is crucial in policy, regulation and funding and like the other scales, the local scale in higher education and knowledge is continually being remade and newly invented. The glonacal paper has been widely used in higher education studies, though single-scale nation-bound methods still have a strong hold. Drawing on insights from human geography and selected empirical studies, the present paper builds on the glonacal paper in a larger theorization of space and scale. It describes how material elements, imagination and social practices interact in making space, which is the sphere of social relations it discusses multiplicity in higher education space and sameness/different tensions and it takes further the investigation of one kind of constructed space in higher education, its heterogenous scales (national, local, regional, global etc.). The paper reviews the intersections between scales, especially between national and global, the ever-changing ordering of scales, and how agents in higher education mix and match scales. It also critiques ideas of fixed scalar primacy such as methodological nationalism and methodological globalism—influential in studies of higher education but radically limiting of what can be imagined and practised. Ideas matter. The single-scale visions and scale-driven universals must be cleared away to bring a fuller geography of higher education to life.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-07-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-10-2022
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 2015
End Date: 2021
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2020
End Date: 2023
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
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