The Future of Higher Education in Japan and the UK

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

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