Simon MarginsonFBAFAcSS (born 1951)[1] is an Australian academic who researches
higher education. He held professorships in education or higher education at
Monash University (2000–06) and the
University of Melbourne (2006–13) before moving to the United Kingdom as professor of international higher education at
University College London (2013–18). As of 2021, he is the director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education and professor of higher education at the
University of Oxford.[2][3]
Education and career
Marginson received a BA in history and politics from the
University of Melbourne (1974). His PhD in education (1996) is also from Melbourne; his thesis is entitled "Markets in Education".[4]
He held various positions at the University of Melbourne (1993–98) before moving to the Department of Education of
Monash University (1998–2006), where he held a chair in education from 2000. He returned to the University of Melbourne as professor of higher education (2006–13). In 2013, he moved to the United Kingdom, becoming professor of international higher education at the UCL Institute of Education,
University College London (2013–18) and director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (from 2015), and then professor of higher education at the
University of Oxford (from 2018).[4]
His monographs published in the late 1990s are described by Helen Proctor and Claire Aitchison as the earliest descriptions of Australia's "market-oriented" governmental educational reforms.[6] His book The Enterprise University (2000), co-authored with
Mark Considine, reviews Australia's higher education system via 17 university case studies, and broadens to consider the international picture. According to a review for Higher Education by Barbara Zamorski, the book focuses on "the new kind of higher education institution now emerging" and describes features necessary for universities to successfully compete internationally.[7] With
Michael A. Peters and Peter Murphy, he wrote a series of three books on "the global knowledge economy" (2009–10), which Roger King, in a review for Higher Education, describes as "an engaging and critical account of the social, cultural, economic and cultural changes associated with the increased centrality of theoretical knowledge or ideas in the post-industrial age."[8]
Educating Australia (Cambridge University Press; 1997)[6]
Education and Public Policy in Australia (Cambridge University Press; 1993)
Edited books
The Handbook on Higher Education and Globalization (with Roger King and Rajani Naidoo;
Edward Elgar Publishing; 2011)[15]
Research papers
Simon Marginson (2006). Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education. Higher Education 52: 1–39
doi:
10.1007/s10734-004-7649-x His highest-cited research paper according to
Google Scholar, with 1583 citations.[16]
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abcHelen Proctor, Claire Aitchison. "Markets in education: 'School choice' and family capital" in Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy (Gabrielle Meagher, Susan Goodwin; eds), p. 321 (
Sydney University Press; 2015)
JSTORj.ctt1b9s0b8.15
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abBarbara Zamorski (2003). Review: The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia by Simon Marginson, Mark Considine. Higher Education 46: 543–544
JSTOR3447575
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abcdRoger King (2012). Review: Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy by Michael A. Peters, Simon Marginson, Peter Murphy; Global Creation: Space, Mobility and Synchrony in the Age of the Knowledge Economy by Simon Marginson, Peter Murphy, Michael A. Peters; Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy by Peter Murphy, Michael A. Peters, Simon Marginson. Higher Education 63: 393–395
JSTOR41343634
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abM. Shattock (2017). Review: The Dream is Over. The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education by Simon Marginson. Higher Education 74: 1121–1123
JSTOR26448971
^Russel Potter, Jenny J. Lee (2012). Review: International student security by S. Marginson, C. Nyland, E. Sawir, H. Forbes-Mewett. Higher Education 64: 135–137
JSTOR41477924
^Mary Stiasny (2011). Review: International student security by Simon Marginson, Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir, Helen Forbes-Mewett. Comparative Education 47: 286-287
JSTOR23074650
^Brendan Cantwell (2012). Review: Handbook on globalization and higher education by Roger King, Simon Marginson, Rajani Naidoo. Higher Education 64: 731–733
JSTOR23275723