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GES coordinator

Susan Robertson
Processes of globalisation and  regionalisation;  multiscalar governance of education; knowledge economy strategies;  neoliberalism and its consequences for education; teachers' labour;  research methodologies for globalisation.

GES members

• Roger Dale
  Processes of globalisation and  regionalisation; multiscalar governance of education; development of knowledge-based economies; social implications of technologies; sociology of education; research methodologies
• Frances Giampapa
  Negotiation of identities in multilingual contexts; critical ethnography, issues of methodology in language research, language and globalisation, multiliteracies, ethnic minority students and equity in education
• Peter Jones
  Political economy of knowledge; European Union education policy; globalisation and education policy; ethnographic discourse analysis; neo-liberalism
• Fumi Kitagawa
  The role of higher education in innovation systems, regionalisation of science and innovation, and multi-level governance of innovation and competence building.
• Lisa Lucas
  Research Interests: Sociology of Higher Education, International Comparison of Systems of Research Evaluation and Funding, The Link Between Research and Teaching in Higher Education, Qualitative Research Methodology.
• John Morgan
  Geography education - especially the production and circulation of geographical knowledge, social and cultural geography, the theory and practice of critical pedagogy., critical pedagogy.
• Thomas Muhr
  Globalisation and regionalisation; Latin America and the Caribbean; Venezuela and counter-hegemonic projects; theories of scale and geo-politics.
• Jenneth Parker

• Michele Smith

• Leon Tikly
  Education policy in postcolonial settings, particularly sub-Saharan Africa; 'race', culture and education policy; social justice and disadvantage in education settings; neo-liberalism and its consequences for education
• Marina Gall
  Social implications of digital technologies; music education across Europe

GES research students

Follow this link for a list and profiles of GES research students

Visiting scholars (2008)

Rixia Zang
Beijing Normal

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