Biography

Simon Marginson holds a Personal Chair in Education at Monash University, and is an Australian Professorial Fellow (APF), the first APF in the field of Education. He has worked at Monash since July 1998 and is now Director of the Monash Centre for Research in International Education in the Faculty of Education. His current research and writing projects are concerned with higher education, and comparative and international education, in the context of globalization, economic and cultural globalisation. His APF program of work 'The Enterprise University in the Global Environment' is focused on the research-intensive university and its future trajectories in a networked global environment. Professor Marginson is a frequent public commentator on economic and education policy and has conducted Australian Research Council-funded projects continuously since 1993. His books include 'Markets in Education' (Allen and Unwin 1997) from his doctoral thesis, awarded the Chancellor's Prize at the University of Melbourne; and 'The Enterprise University' (Cambridge University Press 2000, with Mark Considine) which won the 2001 American Educational Research Association publications award for publications on post-secondary education. An article with Marcela Mollis on theory and method in comparative education, in the global context, achieved the George Z. F. Bereday award from the Comparative and International Education Society, for the article in Comparative Education Review that did most to advance the field of comparative education in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, a Fellow of the Australian College of Education, Editor of the Australian Journal of Education, and chairs the International Forum of the Association for Studies in Higher Education (ASHE) in the U.S.A. He is also a member of El Seminario de Educacion Superior de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (the National University of Mexico, Mexico City).

Research Interests

AREAS OF SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH

Globalisation in Higher education

International and comparative education, in the context of globalisation

The Political Economy of education

Educational and Economics policy, with emphases on Australia and the Asia-Pacific

Studies in the History and Sociology of education

CURRENT GRANTS

1. Australian Professorial Fellow ARC with a program of work studying 'The Enterprise University in the Global Environment' (2003-2007)

2. The Enterprise University as networked university: investigating the contribution of Australian higher education institutions to social capital ARC Discovery Grant (2003-2005)

3. Tertiary education and social capital in Victoria: the effects of the new economy courses in Business and IT ARC Linkage Grant with Victorian government [with Leesa Wheelahan] (2003-2005)

4. The social and economic protection of cross-border students in the global education market ARC Discovery Grant [with Chris Nyland, Gaby Ramia, Michael Gallagher] (2005-2007)

5. Global people movement and the social protection needs of migrants: International students in New Zealand, Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements [with Ana Deumert, Chris Nyland, Gaby Ramia, Felicity Rawlings-Sanaei] (2005-2006)

Publications

BOOKS

MARGINSON, S. - The free market: a study of Hayek, Friedman and Buchanan, Monograph No. 1, Public Sector Research Centre, University of NSW, ii + 100 pp. (1992)

MARGINSON, S. - Education and public policy in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & Melbourne, xv + 286 pp. (1993)

MARGINSON, S. - Educating Australia: Government, economy, and citizen since 1960, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & Melbourne, xi + 276 pp. (1997).

MARGINSON, S. - Markets in education , Allen and Unwin, Sydney, xvi + 324 pp. (1997)

MARGINSON, S. Monash: the remaking of the university, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, xvi + 280 pp. (2000)

MARGINSON, S. and CONSIDINE, M. The enterprise university: Power, governance and reinvention in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & Melbourne, xiii + 272 pp. (2000)

MARGINSON, S. (ed.) Investing in social capital: postgraduate training in the social sciences in Australia, Queensland University Press, Brisbane, also published as Journal of Australian Studies 74 (2002)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (2000 and after)

MACINTYRE, S. and MARGINSON, S. The university and its public, in Why universities matter: a conversation about values, means and directions, ed. T. Coady, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. 49-71 (2000)

MARGINSON, S. Research as a managed economy: the costs, in Why universities matter: a conversation about values, means and directions, ed. T. Coady, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. 186-213 (2000)

MARGINSON, S. Competition in Australian higher education since 1987 intended and unintended effects, in Beyond nostalgia: reshaping Australian education, eds. T. Seddon and L. Angus, ACER Press, Melbourne, pp. 48-69 (2000)

SEDDON, T. and MARGINSON, S. The crisis trifecta education, in Globalisation: Australian impacts, ed. C. Sheil, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 202-218 (2001)

MARGINSON, S. Towards a politics of the Enterprise University, S. Cooper, J. Hinkson and G. Sharp (eds.) Scholars and Entrepreneurs: The universities in crisis, Arena Publications, Melbourne, pp. 109-136 (2002)

MARGINSON, S. - The Whitlam government and education, in Its Time Again Whitlam and modern Labor, eds. J. Hocking and C. Lewis, Circa, Melbourne, pp. 244-272 (2003)

MARGINSON, S. Education, in D. Hayward and P. Ewer (eds.), Visions for Victoria, The Vulgar Press, Melbourne 2003, pp. 123-144 (2003)

BERMAN, E.H. with S. MARGINSON, R. PRESTON, B.E. MCLENNAN and R.F. ARNOVE The political economy of educational reform in Australia, England and Wales, and the United States, in R.F. Arnove and C.A. Torres (eds.) Comparative Education: The dialectic of the global and the local, Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, pp. 252-291 (2003)

MARGINSON, S. Higher education reform in Australia an evaluation, in H. Eggins (ed.) Globalisation and Reform in Higher Education, SRHE/Open University Press, pp. 133-163 (2003)

MARGINSON, S. Higher education, in R. Manne (ed.) The Howard Years, Black Inc. Agenda, Melbourne, pp. 216-244 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. Going global: governance implications of cross-border traffic in higher education, in W. Tierney (ed.), Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the perfect storm, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 1-32 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. and McBURNIE, G. Cross-border post-secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region, in OECD, Internationalisation and Trade in Higher Education, OECD, Paris, pp. 137-204 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. Australian higher education: national and global markets, in P. Teixeira, B. Jongbloed, D. Dill and A. Amaral (eds.) Markets in Higher Education: Rhetoric or reality?, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 207-240 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. Global education markets and global public goods, in J. Zajda (ed) Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (Springer). [Accepted 28 December 2004]

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES (2000 and after)

MARGINSON, S. and MOLLIS, M. Comparing national education systems in the global era. Australian Universities Review, 42 (2) & 43 (1), pp. 53-63 (1999/2000)

MARGINSON, S. Rethinking academic work in the global era. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 22 (1), pp. 23-35 (2000)

MARGINSON, S. The Enterprise University in Australia. Leading and Managing, 5 (3), pp. 98-112, (2000)

CLYNE, F., MARGINSON, S. and WOOCK, R. International education in Australian universities: concepts and definitions. Melbourne Studies in Education, 42 (1), pp. 111-127 (2001)

MARGINSON, S. Trends in the funding of Australian higher education. The Australian Economic Review, 34 (2), pp. 205-215 (2001)

MARGINSON, S. and MOLLIS, M. The door opens and the tiger leaps: theories and reflexivities of comparative education for a global millenium. Comparative Education Review, 45 (4), pp. 581-615 (2001)

MOLLIS, M. and MARGINSON, S. The assessment of universities in Argentina and Australia: between autonomy and heteronomy. Higher Education, 43 (3), pp. 311-330 (2002)

MARGINSON, S. Nation-building universities in a global environment: the case of Australia. , Higher Education, 43 (3), pp. 409-428 (2002)

MARGINSON, S and RHOADES, G. Beyond national states, markets, and systems of higher education: a glonacal agency heuristic. Higher Education, 43 (3), pp. 281-309 (2002)

MARGINSON, S. Postgraduate training in the social sciences: knowledge, engagement, vocation, in S. Marginson (ed.) Investing in social capital: postgraduate training in the social sciences, also published as Journal of Australian Studies 74, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, pp. 7-43 (2002)

MARGINSON, S. - They make a desolation and they call it F. A. Hayek: Australian universities on the brink of the Nelson reforms, Australian Book Review, 260, April, pp. 28-35 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. National and global competition in higher education, The Australian Educational Researcher, 31 (2), pp. 1-28 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. Dont leave me hanging on the Anglophone: The potential for online distance education in the Asia-Pacific region, Higher Education Quarterly, 58 (2/3), pp. 74-113 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. Competition and markets in higher education: a glonacal analysis, Journal of Education Policy Futures, 2 (2), pp. 175-244 (2004)

MARGINSON, S. A revised Marxist political economy of national education markets, Journal of Education Policy Futures, 2 (3&4), pp. 439-453 (2005)

MARGINSON, S. and SAWIR, E. - University leaders strategies in the global environment: A comparative study of Universitas Indonesia and the Australian National University, Higher Education [accepted October 2004, in press]

MARGINSON, S. Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education, Higher Education [accepted December 2004, in press]

MARGINSON, S. The public/private division in higher education: a global revision, Higher Education [accepted March 2005, in press]

DEUMERT, A., MARGINSON, S., NYLAND, C., RAMIA, G. & SAWIR, E. Global migration and social protection: The social and economic security of foreign students in Australia, Journal of Global Social Policy, [submitted November 2004]

MARGINSON, S. & SAWIR, E. Interrogating global flows in higher education, Globalisation, Societies and Education [accepted March 2005, in press]

ENCYCLOPEDIA, TEXTBOOK AND HANDBOOK ENTRIES

MARGINSON, S. Education Policy, in B. Galligan and W. Roberts (eds) Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford [in press, accepted 25 September 2004]

MARGINSON, S. Education, in P. Beilharz and T. Hogan (eds) Relocating Sociology Time, place and division [in press, accepted 15 October 2004]

MARGINSON, S. Australia, in J. Forrest and P. Altbach (eds) International Handbook of Higher Education, Kluwer [in press, accepted 15 November 2004]

MARGINSON, S. Monash University, in Encylopedia of Melbourne, revised edition [in press, accepted 10 December 2004]