2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Politics of Higher Education Marketisation
| Project/Area Number |
17K03563
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
C・J Pokarier 早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 教授 (70386697)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | higher education / marketisation / universities / campus design / public policy / branding |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Substantial progress researching the Australian case was made through campus site visits & interviews (WSU, UTS, U.Syd, UQ, QUT, Griffith U.) in Sept 2019, participation in the IEAA Research Summit & AIEC conference, 10/15-18, Perth. At AIEC I presented research on shrinking higher education markets. Met with many higher education policymakers, HEI leaders, Time HE senior researchers, journalists, & site visit to UWA campus. Multiple meetings, in Sydney and Tokyo, with Dr David Walton to plan workshops in Sydney, June 2020, on higher education policy and in Tokyo (unfortunately disrupted by COVID-19 pandemic).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
2019 progress was good but the COVID-19 pandemic has since have been extremely disruptive to the project. Field research abroad is impossible. A co-organised high-level workshop on higher education policy at Western Sydney University June is cancelled. Only desk research continues. However, planned panel sessions at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) on higher education policy will still happen as an online conference event. Moreover, key organisers - including my collaborator Dr Meng-Hsuan Chou of Nanyang University, Singapore, will run an online international workshop in November on 'academic time', with plans for a book and other publications that I will contribute to. Overall, it is clear though that the project will need a one-year extension.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The project has evolved along two lines of research inquiry, both affirmed by the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic. One is around the contemporary role of the university campus - in university and public policy and in institutional branding - and has been made more stark as an important topic by the forced shift to entirely online education, and stakeholder backlashes. Secondly, border closings have disrupted higher education marketisation, bringing financial crises to higher education institutions in several case study countries. I will desk research these developments during 2020, with Australia as key case study, & disseminate digitally. I will apply for an extension, intending to use 2021 to write, attendance conferences and run one or more events to share updated research findings.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Owing to illness of both my parents that required me to assist them in the summer of 2019, and again in November, I was unable to attend planned European conferences - European Conference on Political Research (ECPR) and the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) - and also had to cancel participation in planned conference session in Beijing on the marketisation of Australia higher education in China.
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Research Products
(1 results)
