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Hang Seng University (Hong Kong)

Professor Ka Ho Mok, Joshua is currently Provost and Vice President (Academic & Research) of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). Before joining HSUHK, he was the Vice President and Chair Professor of Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Since the inception of CGHE, Professor has worked closely with colleagues of the centre for promoting higher education research with focus on Asian education and development studies. He is also a Deputy Director of CGHE. Before joining Lingnan, he was the Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Education University of Hong Kong, and the Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, Professor Mok was appointed as the Founding Chair Professor in East Asian Studies and established the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Ka Ho Mok led CGHE Project 10, ‘UK international graduates in mass media and public perceptions: A comparative study of the UK, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’.

Professor Rajani Naidoo

University of Bath

Rajani Naidoo is Professor in Higher Education Management at the University of Bath and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 1.6, ‘Pathways to personal and public good: understanding access to, student experiences of, and outcomes from South African undergraduate higher education’.

Dr Vassiliki Papatsiba

University of Sheffield

Vassiliki Papatsiba is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Sheffield and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 3.5, ‘Brexit, trade, migration and higher education’.

Professor Claire Callender

University College London

Claire Callender is Professor of Higher Education Studies at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. She is a Deputy Director of CGHE. Claire led on CGHE Project 5, ‘Student loan debt and graduate decision-making’ which explored the impact of income-contingent student loan debt on English graduates’ lives using both quantitative and qualitative methods. It showed how loan debt can have negative effects on graduates’ lives.

Eva Egron-Polak

International Association of Universities

Eva is former Secretary-General of the International Association of Universities (IAU).

Professor Michael Shattock

University of Oxford

Michael Shattock is a Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at Oxford. He was formerly Registrar of the University of Warwick. He holds Honorary Degrees from Aberdeen, Leicester, Reading and Warwick Universities and from the University of Education, Ghana and is an OBE. He led the Governance group within CGHE which has been responsible for the following books published by Bloomsbury: The Governance of British Higher Education—The impact of governmental, financial and market pressures (2019), The Governance of European Higher Education—Convergence or Divergence? (2023), and Universities and Regions—The impact of locality and region on university governance and strategies (2023).

Dr Nikki Shure

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society

Nikki Shure is a Lecturer in Economics at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 2.2, ‘HE choices and post-HE destinations to age 25: parental background and effects of higher education funding reform in the UK’.

Maria Rucsandra Stan

Carlo Cattaneo University/University of Oxford

Maria Rucsandra Stan is a PhD candidate at the Carlo Cattaneo University – LIUC in Castellanza, Italy and is currently a visiting doctoral researcher on CGHE Project 3, ‘Research on Research: the research function and mission of higher education’ under the supervision of Professor Alis Oancea. Rucsandra is also part of a PRIN project (Carlo Cattaneo University local unit), on “The effects of evaluation on academic research: knowledge production and methodological issues’”. Her research focuses on the effects of the evaluation system on knowledge production and researchers in academia and research institutions.

Dr Lin Tian

Hunan University, China

Lin Tian is a Research Associate on CGHE Project 8, ‘Local and global public good of higher education: 10 nation study’.

Professor Robert Tijssen

Leiden University (Netherlands)

Robert Tijssen is Professor Emeritus of Science and Innovation Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and was a CGHE Co-Investigator on the former Project 1.3, ‘Higher education’s engagement with industry: metrics and indicators of boundary spanning UK academics’.

Associate Professor Celia Whitchurch

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society

Dr Celia Whitchurch is Honorary Associate Professor at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education. Her research interests focus on academic and professional roles, identities and careers, and on third space environments in higher education.

Professor Becky Francis

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society

Becky is Chief Executive Officer of the Education Endowment Foundation