Biographical Information
Louise Morley FAcSS is a Professor of Education and Director of the Centre
for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER) (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/) at the University of Sussex, UK, and a Guest Professor at the University
of Gothenburg, Sweden (2016-17). Louise has an international profile in
the field of the sociology of gender in higher education, and has made
keynote conference presentations on five continents.
Her current research includes a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie funded
project Higher Education Internationalisation and Mobility: Inclusions,
Equalities and Innovations (HEIM) (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/education/cheer/researchprojects/rise), an ESRC research project on Higher Education and the Public Good: Reflections
from Four African Contexts in 2017, and a CHEER Partnership with the University
of Hiroshima, Japan on Higher Education Knowledge Exchange and Policy Learning
in the Asian Century.
She has recently completed research on women and leadership in higher education
in South Asia for the British Council, undertaken research for the Leadership
Foundation for Higher Education on women and leadership, for the ESRC/DFID
on Widening Participation in Higher Education in Ghana and Tanzania (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/wphegt/), for the ESRC on knowledge exchange, the HEFCE on graduate employability
and for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Department for International
Development on Gender Equity in Commonwealth Universities.
Louise is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society
for Research into Higher Education, was a Senior Research Fellow, Centre
for Gender Excellence, University of Örebro, Sweden (2011), and the 2013-2014
Inaugural Chair, Women’s Leadership Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia.
Louise has published widely in the field of higher education studies. See
Sussex Research Online- http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/view/creators/461.html