Professor Michael Shattock
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).
Michael is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and the former Registrar of Warwick University. He is the founder of UCL Institute of Education’s MBA in Higher Education Management.
CGHE publications
- Universities and Regions: the ‘Hinterland’ Issue in European Higher Education Policymaking
- The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures
- Universities and Regions: The Impact of Locality and Region on University Governance and Strategies
- Intersectoral relationships within higher education: the FE/HE interface in the UK
- University governance in flux. The impact of external and internal pressures on the distribution of authority within British universities: a synoptic view
- University governance and academic work: the ‘business model’ and its impact on innovation and creativity
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- CGHE Conference on ‘The public good role of higher education’
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence?
- Higher Education and the Regional Dimension in England
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- Intersectoral relationships within higher education: the FE/HE interface in the UK
- Decentralising government: the impact of devolution on the governance of UK higher education
- CGHE 2019 annual conference: Challenging higher education
- Changing patterns of HE governance in Europe and the UK: are they fit for purpose?
Select recent publications
- Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures
Bloomsbury Academic, October 2019 - University governance in flux. The impact of external and internal pressures on the distribution of authority within British universities: A synoptic view
Higher Education Quarterly, July 2017 - University governance in flux. The impact of external and internal pressures on the distribution of authority within British universities: A synoptic view
CGHE working paper, February 2017 - Managing successful universities
Open University Press, 2010
