Simon Marginson

Professor of Higher Education, Department of Education and Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK

 

Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Higher Education. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, Monash University and University College London. His research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, global science, higher education in East Asia, and the public and social contributions of higher education. His books include Markets in Education (1997), The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia (2000), with Mark Considine, Higher Education and the Common Good (2016), and High Participation Systems of Higher Education (2018), edited with Brendan Cantwell and Anna Smolentseva. The most recent is Changing Higher Education in East Asia (2022), edited with Xin Xu. Simon has published more than 300 papers (Google Scholar h-index 78), and received the Distinguished Research Award from the Association for Studies of Higher Education in the United States in 2014, the year he was also the Clark Kerr Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of California. He is a member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in the UK, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.