CGHE Annual Conference

CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education

Date: Monday, 22 May 2023 9:00 am to Tuesday, 23 May 2023 5:10 pm
Location: Institute of Education, UCL, London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
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The CGHE Annual Conference returns for its eighth edition on 22-23 May 2023.

Day 1 In-Person Conference: Monday 22 May 2023
Jeffery Hall, UCL Institute of Education

8.30-9.00
Coffee and registration

9.00
Conference opening and welcome
Speaker: Simon Marginson (CGHE Director)

9.05-10.55
Keynote 1 (Double keynote session): From Higher to Tertiary in Post-School Education: National and international perspectives
Chair: Chris Millward (Chair, CGHE Advisory Board)
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The Global and the Local: will tertiary education for all be much the same, everywhere?
Speaker: Alison Wolf (House of Lords, KCL)

Is it Time to Rethink Our Model of Post-Secondary Education? Progressing a Tertiary Education Eco-System
Speaker: Ellen Hazelkorn (BH Associates and TU Dublin)

10.55-11.15
Coffee/tea break

11.15-12.15
Keynote 2 and Burton R. Clark Lecture: Tertiary education and the sustainability agenda
Chair: Claire Callender (CGHE Deputy Director)
Speaker: Tristan McCowan (UCL IOE)
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12.15-1.15
Panel: Pre-election issues in UK tertiary education (regionalisation, tuition and lifelong learning)
Chair: Huw Morris (UCL IOE)
Speakers:
Mike Shattock (UCL IOE and Oxford) – Regionalising tertiary education in England
Claire Callender (CGHE Deputy Director)A structure for lifelong learning in UK
Nicholas Barr (LSE)The future of the income contingent loans system
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1.15-2.15
Lunch break

2.15-3.15
PARALLEL SESSIONS

Graduates, Knowledge and Research – Elvin Hall
Chair: Ellen Hazelkorn (BH Associates and TU Dublin)
CGHE project 1: Graduate experiences of employability and knowledge – Paul Ashwin (Lancaster)
CGHE project 3: Being a researcher in uncertain times: challenges, opportunities, futures – Alis Oancea (Oxford) facilitator, contributions from James Robson, Xin Xu, Hoonhui Cho (all Oxford), Gemma Derrick (Bristol) Read abstracts

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The Long View in Tertiary Education – Drama Studio
Chair: Diana Laurillard (UCL IOE)
CGHE project 6: Higher education governance in UK and Europe – Mike Shattock (UCL IOE and Oxford), Jürgen Enders (Bath), Aniko Horvath (VU Amsterdam) Read abstracts
CGHE project 7: Long-term trends in funding and staffing – Vincent Carpentier (UCL IOE)
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3.15-4.15
PARALLEL SESSIONS

Indebted Graduates: Disrupting Policy Rhetoric – Elvin Hall
Chair: James Robson (Oxford)
CGHE project 5: Graduate loan debt – Claire Callender (CGHE Deputy Director), Ariane de Gayardon (Twente) Read abstracts

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Mapping International Flows of Funding to Education and Research in the Global South – Drama Studio
Chair: Xin Xu (Oxford)
CGHE project 9: Mapping the global tertiary education spaceTristan McCowan (UCL IOE), Maia Chankseliani (Oxford), Lee Rensimer (UCL IOE), David Mills (Oxford) (discussant)
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Health Hazard and Symbolic Violence: The Impact of Double Disturbance on International Learning Experiences and Implications for Hong Kong – Nunn Hall
Chair: Janja Komljenovic (Lancaster)
CGHE project 10: UK international graduates in East Asia – Ka Ho Mok (Lingnan, Hong Kong)
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4.15-4.30
Coffee/tea break

4.30-5.30
Keynote 3: Tertiary Education: Challenges and responsibilities
Chair: Simon Marginson (CGHE Director)
Speaker: Alis Oancea (Oxford)
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5.30
Conference close
Speaker: Simon Marginson (CGHE Director)

5.40-6.30
Book launch
Universities and Regions, Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath (Bloomsbury, published 4 May 2023)
Chair: Chris Millward (Chair, CGHE Advisory Board)
Speakers: Huw Morris (UCL IOE), John Morgan (Times Higher Education)

Day 2 Global Online Conference: Tuesday 23 May 2023

9.00
Conference opening and welcome
Speaker: Simon Marginson (CGHE Director)

9.15-10.15
Keynote 1: An index, a publisher and an unequal global research economy
Chair: Vincent Carpentier (UCL IOE)
Speaker: David Mills (Oxford)
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10.15-10.30
Break

10.30-11.30
Panel 1: Tertiary education and research amid global crises
Chair: James Robson (Oxford)
Speakers:
Richard Watermeyer (Bristol)
Xin Xu (Oxford)
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11.30-11.45
Break

11.45-12.45
Panel 2: The ‘public’ character of tertiary education
Chair: Lili Yang (Hong Kong)
Speakers:
Aline Courtois (Bath)
Elisa Brewis (Oxford)
Krystian Szadkowski (Adam Mickiewicz)
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12.45-1.30
Lunch break

1.30-2.30
Keynote 2: Information overload and the echo chamber effect in higher education research
Chair: Elisa Brewis (Oxford)
Speaker: Rebecca Schendel (Boston)
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2.30-2.45
Break

2.45-3.45
CGHE project 2 (digital) session: Democratising collaborative professional development on UN SDGs: From MOOC to CoMOOC
Chair: Ka Ho Mok (Lingnan University)
Speakers: Diana Laurillard (UCL IOE), Eileen Kennedy (UCL IOE), Preeti Shroff (Northwestern) (discussant)
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3.45-4.00
Break

4.00-5.00
Keynote 3: Beyond “Business as Usual” in University Climate Action
Chair: Simon Marginson (CGHE Director)
Speaker: Sharon Stein (British Columbia)
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5.00
Conference close
Speaker: Simon Marginson (CGHE Director)

Event Notes

For any further queries about the conference, please contact
Emily Betz (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society)
e.betz@ucl.ac.uk
or
Mary Bowen-Perkins (University of Oxford)
mary.bowen-perkins@education.ox.ac.uk

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