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Simon Marginson FBA FAcSS (born 1951)[1] is an Australian academic who researches higher education. He held professorships in education or higher education at Monash University (2000–06) and the University of Melbourne (2006–13) before moving to the United Kingdom as professor of international higher education at University College London (2013–18). As of 2021, he is the director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education and professor of higher education at the University of Oxford.[2][3]

Education and career

Marginson received a BA in history and politics from the University of Melbourne (1974). His PhD in education (1996) is also from Melbourne; his thesis is entitled "Markets in Education".[4]

He held various positions at the University of Melbourne (1993–98) before moving to the Department of Education of Monash University (1998–2006), where he held a chair in education from 2000. He returned to the University of Melbourne as professor of higher education (2006–13). In 2013, he moved to the United Kingdom, becoming professor of international higher education at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London (2013–18) and director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (from 2015), and then professor of higher education at the University of Oxford (from 2018).[4]

He is one of the editors-in-chief of the journal Higher Education.[5]

Research and writings

His monographs published in the late 1990s are described by Helen Proctor and Claire Aitchison as the earliest descriptions of Australia's "market-oriented" governmental educational reforms.

Michael A. Peters and Peter Murphy, he wrote a series of three books on "the global knowledge economy" (2009–10), which Roger King, in a review for Higher Education, describes as "an engaging and critical account of the social, cultural, economic and cultural changes associated with the increased centrality of theoretical knowledge or ideas in the post-industrial age."[8]

Awards and honours

Marginson is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK.[9] He gave the Clark Kerr Lectures in 2014, the text of which was expanded into a book, The Dream is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education (University of California Press; 2016).[10] He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.[11]

Selected works

Sources:[1][4]

Authored books and monographs

Edited books

Research papers

  • Simon Marginson (2006). Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education. Higher Education 52: 1–39
    doi:10.1007/s10734-004-7649-x His highest-cited research paper according to Google Scholar, with 1583 citations.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b Marginson, Simon 1951–, WorldCat (accessed 17 December 2021)
  2. ^ Simon Marginson, Department of Education, University of Oxford (accessed 17 December 2021)
  3. ^ Professor Simon Marginson, Centre for Global Higher Education (accessed 17 December 2021)
  4. ^ a b c Professor Simon Marginson PhD FAcSS: Short Curriculum Vitae, Centre for Global Higher Education (accessed 17 December 2021)
  5. ^ Editors, Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, Springer (accessed 17 December 2021)
  6. ^
    JSTOR j.ctt1b9s0b8.15
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    JSTOR 3447575
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    JSTOR 41343634
  9. ^ Fellows: M, Academy of Social Sciences (accessed 17 December 2021)
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    JSTOR 26448971
  11. ^ "Professor Simon Marginson FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  12. JSTOR 41477924
  13. JSTOR 23074650
  14. JSTOR 10.1086/341161
  15. JSTOR 23275723
  16. ^ Simon Marginson, Google Scholar (accessed 16 December 2021)
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