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Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER)

Higher Education, Knowledge Exchange and Policy Learning in the Asian Century

A UK/Japanese Partnership

Japan Report coverWhat is the project?

A bi-lateral research partnership between the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), ßÏßÏÊÓƵ, and the new Research Institute for Japan, the UK and Europe (RIJUE), Hiroshima University.

The partnership will develop original comparative higher education research on current policy priorities in the two countries.

What is the project's focus?

  • Privatisation
  • Internationalisation
  • Teaching and Learning
  • Equity and Inclusion
  • Leadership
  • The Future of Doctoral Education.

What is the timescale of the project?

The project will run for three years from 1 November 2016 - 30 October 2019.

What are the project objectives?

  1. To establish a new institutional framework for bi-lateral research collaboration, policy learning and knowledge exchange about current challenges, policy discourses and strategic priorities in higher education in Japan and the UK.
  2. To develop original comparative higher education research on internationalisation, equity and inclusion, leadership, teaching and learning, privatisation, and the future of doctoral education in Japan and the UK.
  3. To interrogate the concept of the Asian Century in higher education.
  4. To enhance the global profile of the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), through a partnership with RIJUE - a major player in higher education in the Asian Century and the Global Knowledge Economy.
  5. To build capacity and sustainability of early career researchers in the field of international higher education research via the inclusion of ßÏßÏÊÓƵ doctoral scholars in the project.
  6. To support the internationalisation and mobility of ßÏßÏÊÓƵ academic staff and doctoral scholars through secondments to the RIJUE.
  7. To submit a minimum of two research funding bids e.g. to the ESRC and Horizon 2020.
  8. To produce a minimum of two co-authored journal articles and an edited book on the topic of Higher Education Challenges in Japan and the UK.
  9. To attract International Students through the promotion of CHEER’s research and publications in equity and inclusion in higher education.

What activities are taking place?

Year 1: Mapping

Year 2: Co-Creativity

Two secondments from ßÏßÏÊÓƵ to Japan for 10 days per visit. Each visit will include one ßÏßÏÊÓƵ member of staff and one doctoral scholar.

Aims:

  • to collect data/ search literature/ exchange knowledge for co-authored papers
  • to draft collaborative research proposals e.g. to the ESRC/ Horizon 2020
  • to co-author papers and submit them to major higher education journals e.g. Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Higher Education, Teaching in Higher Education.

Year 3: Impact and dissemination

  1. We will produce an edited collection with chapters from authors from RIJUE and Sussex.
  2. An impact seminar with particpants from HEFCE, HEA, OFFA, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, NUS:

Date: Friday 28 June 2019
Time: 9.15am-3.15pm
Venue: 
Title: Experts' Knowledge Exchange Seminar - Internationalising Higher Education in Japan

An opportunity to share findings from the research project Higher Education, Knowledge Exchange and Policy Learning in The Asian Century: A UK/Japanese Partnership with policymakers and relevant higher education professionals and stakeholders. The project investigated how internationalisation in Japan was experienced by migrant academics and doctoral researchers. 

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Project News

Latest publication from the project:

Morley, L., Leyton, D. & Hada, Y. (2019): 'The Affective Economy of Internationalisation: Migrant academics in and out of Japanese Higher Education', Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 3:1, 51-74, DOI: 10.1080/23322969.2018.1564353.

The Training Module Internationalisation in Higher Education: Practical Guidance is now available in Japanese. This module is designed for staff at Higher Education Institutions - Human Resources, Equality and Diversity personnel and managers - involved in the recruitment, support and development of international academics. The content is designed to offer concise and practical advice, helping users to identify and develop reflexive practices for their own training programmes.

Japanese students explain the differences they see between the UK and Japanese higher education systems

Internationalising Higher Education in Japan: End of project seminar

Experts from MEXT the OECD, and the UUK and scholars, university leaders, members of professional services, and doctoral researchers participated in discussions on the findings from this research project on 28 June 2019 at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts on the ßÏßÏÊÓƵ campus.

We were delighted to welcome our research parters from Japan - Professor Yumiko Hada and Dr Ryo Sasaki. We were also honoured that colleagues from around the globe joined us for the event: Professor Greg Poole, from Doshisha University, Japan, Dr Carolina Guzman from the University of Chile, and Ms Shizuka Kato from the OECD, Paris, and our CHEER Associates Professor Carole Leathwood and Dr Terri Kim.

See details, presentations, photographs and video on the event web page.