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Bristol/WUN GHEAR Conference Globalising Geographies of Higher Education and Research
Wednesday 1 – Friday 3 February 2012The Great Hall, Wills Memorial BuildingUniversity of Bristol
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Welcome
• Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol and the President of Universities UK
• Wendy Larner, Research Director, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol
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Where are we now?
• Most universities have well developed internationalisation strategies
• Active membership of international consortium (WUN, Universitas 21, APRU, LERU...)
• Privilege international activities in reward structures
• Encourage PhD and early career researchers to build international networks
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The Institutional Challenges
• Often surprisingly difficult to deliver on so-called ‘Global Challenges’
• Variable research models across disciplinary fields and national cultures
• Sometimes difficult to get past extravagant claims and skilful publicity
• ‘Herding Cats’
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The Political Challenges
• Are we entrenching international research hierarchies?
• Are the new globalising research geographies underpinned by resourcing worries?
• Are universities competing with multi-national corporations, consultants and think-tanks?
• Is the globalisation of higher education itself becoming a globalising phenomenon?
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Globalising Geographies
• Reject the ‘bulldozer model’ of inexorable processes ‘out there’ that do things to us ‘in here’.
• ‘Globalising’ rather than ‘globalisation’• Important studies of bio-technology, professional
services and architecture amongst others• Don’t know much about the globalising
knowledge networks of academic research itself
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The Issues
• What are the views of the academics themselves? (Workshop A)
• How do we build infrastructure to better support globalising intellectual and institutional ambitions? (Workshop B)
• What are the implications for learning and pedagogy? (Workshop C)
• How is the wider institutional terrain shifting? (Workshop D)
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The Format
• Each session will open with four ‘provocations’• The ‘rapporteur’ will identify cross-cutting issues
and key themes• Roundtable discussions to tease out ideas and
concrete proposals• Open discussion to present these ideas and
proposals to the group as a whole
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Housekeeping
• Mutual respect• ‘Chatham House’ rules• All filming, tweeting and subsequent reports will
report only what is said, not who said it.• Relax, eat and enjoy!
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Workshop A: Globalising Academics
Chair: Wendy Larner
Provocateurs: Matt Sparke
Sue Parnell
Paul Valdes
Richard Le Heron/Nick Lewis
Rapporteur: Nan Yeld
What are the views of the academics themselves?
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Workshop B: Globalising Infrastructure
Chair: David Langley
Provocateurs: Rowan Douglas
John Kirkland
Glenn Swafford
Frans Swanepoel
Rapporteur: John Rogers
How do we build infrastructure to better support globalising intellectual and institutional ambitions?
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Workshop C: Globalising Learning
Chair: Ian Wei
Provocateurs: Hugh Lauder
Simon Marginson
Susan Robertson
Amy Stambach
Rapporteur: Ka Ho Mok
What are the implications for learning and pedagogy?
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Workshop D: Globalising Institutions
Chair: Guy Orpen
Provocateurs: Martin Bean
Peter Gist
Joanna Newman
Rapporteur: Nigel Thrift
How is the wider institutional terrain shifting?