Associate Professor Maia Chankseliani
Maia Chankseliani is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford, UK. She works at the intersection of tertiary education and development. Her work as part of CGHE Project 9 included a seminal paper on international development higher education, as well as explorations of regional spaces in higher education and cross-border flows of funding for globally visible research in the Global South.
Her recent two books – What Happened to the Soviet University? (2022) and Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries (2022) – engage specifically with higher education in Eurasia. At Oxford, she leads Comparative and International Education Research Group and a flagship master’s course MSc in Comparative and International Education. Maia Chankseliani is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Educational Research. Twitter: @MChankseliani
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- Rethinking The Geopolitics Of Higher Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- Mobilizing Whiteness: Race, Futurity and Globalization of Higher Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- What happened to the Soviet University?
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- University Research Capacity in Post-Soviet Countries: Case Studies of Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Russia
- A Big Picture: Bibliometric Study of the Quantity, Quality, and Impact of Academic Publications from Post-Soviet Countries
Select publications
- A big picture: bibliometric study of academic publications from post-Soviet countries
Scientometrics, August 2021 - Higher education and the sustainable development goals
Higher Education, November 2020 - Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: new empirical and conceptual insights
Higher Education, June 2020 - The politics of exporting higher education: Russian university branch campuses in the “Near Abroad”
Post-Soviet Affairs, June 2020 - Rural disadvantage in the context of centralised university admissions: A multiple case study of Georgia and Kazakhstan
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, May 2020
