August 2014
Louise Morley made a keynote presentation Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy [PPTX 12.87MB] at the Finnish Symposium of Higher Education Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 19-20 August.
July 2014
Professor Valerie Hey presented 'Writing the Feminist Imaginary' at the CIE Research Day, University of Sussex, 3 July.
CHEER-hosted Doctoral Network Lunch: 1 July 2014
For students attending the International Doctor of Education Summer School to meet other CHEER students and staff researching higher education and share ideas and insights.
The event was well attended by scholars from India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Israel, Serbia and Tanzania. Other participants had recently conducted research in Kazakhstan, Spain, South Asia, Ghana and Senegal. Key topics identified included: - The need for more critical thinking in university education - The privileging of STEM disciplines and the downgrading of social sciences - Raising aspirations and the disappointment of un/under-employment - What does participation mean? - How does women's access to HE impact on their rights in wider civil society? - Are quality systems transferable from the Global North to the Global South? - Stratified HE for different social groups?
June 2014
1. CHEER presented a symposium Feminism and the Knowledge Factory at the 'Governing Academic Life' conference at the London School of Economics (LSE), 25-26 June. Papers presented included: - Dr Barbara Crossouard: Materializing Foucault? [PPTX 249.00KB] - Professor Valerie Hey: Dissident Daughters? The psychic life of academic feminism [PPT 286.00KB] - Professor Louise Morley: Researching the future: Closures and culture wars in the knowledge economy [PPTX 1.27MB]
2. Professor Miriam David is author of the following book due to be published at the end of the month: Feminism, Gender and Universities: politics, passion and pedagogies [PDF 70.66KB]. This flyer gives a 50 per cent discount on the price of the volume which features the CHEER-hosted Robbins Report 50 Years On: Feminist Responses event on the cover.
3. Professor Louise Morley presented a seminar at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent on the 12th June. View/download her presentation: Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy, Kent, June 2014 [PPTX 1.69MB]
May 2014
Professor Louise Morley was a keynote speaker at the conference Beyond the glass ceiling: Women rectors across Europe, role of leadership in structural changes in Istanbul, Turkey, 15-17 May 2014. See Louise's presentation: Lost Leaders: Women in the global academy - Istanbul, May 2014 [PPTX 454.02KB]
April 2014
Professor Louise Morley presented on the British Council-funded CHEER research on Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy [PPTX 453.94KB] in South Asia at the 'Going Global' Conference in Miami. She was a keynote speaker in the session on 'Dangerous Demographics: Women in Higher Education Leadership'.
See also podcast of Janet Beer reporting on Simonetta Manfedi's research for the Leadership Foundation.
March 2014
1. Dr Kalwant Bhopal, Reader in Education and Director of Postgraduate Research Degrees from the University of Southampton presented "Understanding minority ethnic academic flight from UK higher educatuion" on Monday 24th March 2014. See: Seminar Series Promo - 24mar2014 [DOC 140.50KB]
2. CHEER referenced in article by Holly Else in the Times Higher Education on 20 March: Research councils may tie funding to diversity accreditation.
3. Professor Louise Morley gave the following presentation on the 13th March at a seminar for the Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford: Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy [PPTX 1.89MB]
4. Professor Louise Morley and Dr Barbara Crossouard spoke about their British Council-funded research on women in higher education leadership in South Asia at the Dangerous Demographic: Women Leadership and the Looming Crisis in Higher Education policy dialogue seminar in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in March 2014.
Dangerous Demographic: Women, Leadership and the Looming Crisis in Higher Education: Sri Lanka, March 2014
February 2014
1. Professor Louise Morley made a keynote presentation at the British Council's Global Education Dialogue on Inclusive Leadership conference in Hong Kong. Whilst in Hong Kong, Professor Morley delivered a fuller version of this presentation, Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy, as a seminar for the University of Hong Kong's Community of Higher Education Researchers' group.
British Council Conference
Seminar for the University of Hong Kong
2. Professor Valerie Hey presented at the conference: Orienting Feminism(s): Feminist 'Turns' and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production, at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick on Friday 28 February. Other speakers included Professor Clare Hemmings - LSE, Dr Carolyn Pedwell - Newcastle, Dr Rebecca Coleman - Goldsmiths and Professor Lisa Blackman - Goldsmiths.
3. Professor Valerie Hey gave the keynote presentation Past Perfect - Present Dis/Possessive - Future Conditional?: Generation, Gender, Class and Feminism [PPT 1.15MB] at the British Academy's Critical Terrain: Dividing Lines and Lives conference at the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University, on Friday 7 February.
December 2013
CHEER members presented 'Performing Difference in the Global Academy' at the 2013 SRHE Conference at Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales on Thursday 12th December. Presentations included:
- Lost Leaders: Women in the global academy [PPT 10.55MB] Professor Louise Morley, Director of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER)
- Managing social differences in higher education: Hidden distinctions [PPT 496.00KB] Dr Linda Morrice, CHEER, University of Sussex
- Making a difference? Conducting a study of the experience of BME staff in English higher education [PPT 554.50KB] Professor Valerie Hey, CHEER, University of Sussex
- Student Performativity: How presenteeism, learnerism and globalism are eroding the freedom to learn Professor Bruce Macfarlane, University of Hong Kong and Visiting Professor to CHEER
- Troubling the concept: Students' experiences of critical thinking in higher education [PPTX 1.24MB] Emily Danvers, CHEER, University of Sussex
See also CHEER Symposium for the 2013 SRHE Conference: RATIONALE [DOCX 142.04KB]
SRHE Conference, Newport, Wales - 12 December 2013: Photo Gallery
November 2013
1. Professor Louise Morley was a keynote speaker on Researching the Future: Towards an Inclusive Global Knowledge Economy [PPT 8.88MB] at the Second International Conference on Emerging Research Paradigms in Business and Social Sciences organised by Middlesex University, Dubai, 26-28 November 2013.
2. Professor Louise Morley was the guest speaker at the Imagining the University of the Future [PPT 2.08MB] Public Lecture hosted by Group 22 in Zagreb, Croatia on 8 November 2013. Group 22 is a think tank based at the University of Zadar dedicated to green and left progressive politics. They are committed to nourishing alternative models of socially just, democratic and materially sustainable societies for the 22nd centuries. Group 22 has also produced the "Declaration on Science and Higher Education [PDF 263K]" with the Academic Solidarity Union in Zagreb, a document which expresses concerns about the neoliberal agenda in science and higher education.
October 2013
1. Professor Louise Morley made the keynote presentation Lost Leaders: Women in the global academy [PPT 12.31MB] at the European Union Conference 'Female Empowerment in Science and Technology (FESTA)' conference at the University of Limerick, Ireland, 23-25 October 2013.
2. CHEER member, Professor Valerie Hey, was a panel member at the conference 'A Discussion of the Role of Black and Minority Ethnic Academies in Higher Education' at the University of Manchester on Friday 18th October. Rob Berkeley, Director of The Runnymeade Trust since 2009, was the panel Chair. Professor Hey will also be the keynote speaker at the upcoming conference 'Critical Terrain: Dividing lines and lives' on Friday 7th February 2014. She will present Past Perfect - Present Dis/Possessive - Future Conditional?: Generation, Gender, Class and Feminism.
3. CHEER cited in the Times Higher Education on the 10th October. See Athena SWAN gender equity charter spreads across sector by Jack Groves.
September 2013
1. Professor Louise Morley visited the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan) where she is the Inaugural Chair in the Tun Fatimah Hashim Centre for Women and Leadership from 13th-28th September. During her visit, Louise gave public lectures in Sabah and Kuala Lumpur on 'Lost Leaders: Women in the Global Academy' and lectures on 'Knowing Women: Gender, Power and Research' and 'Getting Published'. Louise also chaired discussions on collaborative publishing, research, doctoral training and the development of links with the CHEER research centre. Louise met with Ministers for Women and Families in Community Development in Kuala Lumpur, Sabah and Sarawak.
2. Third year CHEER doctoral researcher, Jessica Gagnon, has been awarded funding from The Fran Trust to present her paper entitled "You don't seem damaged": Exploring the identities of the daughters of single mothers as they experience higher education as first generation students at the annual conference for the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in Wales in December. The Fran Trust funds scholarly activity in the fields of feminism, gender and women's studies.
3. CHEER members presented a keynote symposium on Defending Difference in Higher Education at the BERA Conference, 3-5 September 2013, University of Sussex. Download the presentations here:
- BERA 2013: Leading higher education differently: Desiring, dismissing or disqualifying women - Louise Morley [PPT 5.63MB]
- BERA 2013: Bad New Days? A state of feminist emergency of, in and beyond higher education - Valerie Hey [PPT 574.50KB]
- BERA 2013: Gender difference, feminism and universities - Miriam David [PPT 222.50KB]
- BERA 2013: Laddism and violence in a marketised sector - Alison Phipps [PPT 2.32MB]
- BERA 2013: Defending difference in higher education pedagogies - Penny Jane Burke [PPT 3.77MB]