Simon Marginson
Professor Simon Marginson
Professor of Higher Education
Phone: +61 3 8344 8060
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Email: s.marginson@ unimelb.edu.au
Professor Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. He took up this position in July 2006. His inaugural professorial lecture on ‘The global positioning of Australian higher education: where to from here?’ was delivered on 16 October 2007.
Career in Australia: Simon completed his PhD in the Faculty of Education at The University of Melbourne in 1996 and was awarded the University’s Chancellor’s Prize for the outstanding thesis in the social sciences, arts and humanities that year. After spending 15 years as a policy research officer for four different education unions including three at national level, he worked at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor/Reader (1993-1998), before transferring to the Monash University Faculty of Education in 1998. At Monash he was appointed to a Personal Professorial Chair in Education in 2000 and was director of the Monash Centre for Research in International Education (1999-2006). He became a Fellow of the Australian College of Education (FACE) in 1994 and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia (FASSA) in 2000. In 2002 he was awarded a five year Australian Professorial Fellowship for 2003-2007, funded by the Australian government on the recommendation of the Australian Research Council (ARC). In October 2007 he was invested as an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Council of Educational Leaders (FACEL).
International: Simon has active international collaborations in North America and Mexico, UK and Europe, and East and Southeast Asia. He is an Honorary Fellow of the UK Society for Research into Higher Education, and a member of El Seminario de Educacion Superior de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (the National University of Mexico, Mexico City) as well as several international scholarly associations, including the Association for Studies in Higher Education in the USA where he chaired the International Forum in 2004-2005. In 2006-2007 he has/will present keynotes and other papers to conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, China, USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany and Portugal. He has provided a paper on higher education and globalisation at an OECD expert advisory meeting in Portugal, twice given papers to conferences of the OECD Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) program, completed a paper on higher education and globalisation for the OECD with Dutch colleague Marijk van der Wende, and with Thomas Weko led the preparation of the report of the OECD’s Thematic Review of Tertiary Education in the Netherlands. His invited paper at the Beijing Forum of November 2007 concerned globalisation and the worldwide higher education environment.
Scholarship. Simon Marginson’s scholarship combines conceptual and observational inquiry. Theorisation, methodology and empirical investigation are inputs into the processes of investigation and explanation, without privileging one over another on a permanent basis. He works in two domains: higher education studies with emphasis on policy and history, and comparative and international education. Currently he is working largely on issues of globalisation and higher education, with reference to political theory and global sociology and political economy. He is preparing three monographs, one of which is focused on the internationalisation of Australian universities and another contains case studies of the global perspectives and practices of research-intensive universities in different countries. Recent theory papers have mapped the global sphere in higher education; re-examined the public/private divide and global public goods in higher education; discussed the theorisations of Bourdieu, Gramsci and Habermas as contributions to our understanding of higher education; and explored forms of freedom, with particular reference to academic self-determination and the creative imagination. Several recent paper presentations have concerned the formation of a worldwide market in higher education, including issues and problems in relation to university rankings. Longer term he is shaping a monograph on the research-intensive university as an institution. Other projects include two collaborative books containing country chapters on the strategies of governments and higher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region, and on university autonomy in the neo-liberal period. He has also written on problems of the political economy of education, and education policy especially in Australia, and has published two books in the history of Australian education.
Current research projects. From January 2008 onwards Simon is working on two new Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant projects, on the global strategies of research-intensive universities in the Asia-Pacific region (2008-2011), and on boundaries and strategies in the field of knowledge forming organizations, including research universities (with Mark Considine, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, 2008-2010). Both of these project proposals were ranked in the top third of successful projects by the ARC Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Panel. Projects at the writing up stage include an ARC Discovery Grant project on the institutional character of the globally networked university, including the role of higher education in forming social capital (2003-2007), and an ARC Discovery Grant project on international student security in the global education market. Simon was a member of the CSHE team that conducted the 2006 Universities Australia (UA, formerly AVCC) survey of student finances in Australia, and is working on the Faculty of Education Strategic Research Initiative on ‘The emerging educational needs of knowledge economies in the Asia-Pacific region’. Simon has supervised ten PhD and EdD graduates to completion and is currently supervising six more doctoral students, most of whom are working on international aspects of higher education.
Publications. Simon’s most recent book is the edited collection Prospects of Higher Education: Globalization, market competition, public goods and the future of the university, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam (2007). He has published five self-authored books, one jointly authored book and two edited collections, and more than 100 journal articles, review essays and book chapters as well as other publications (see below). He chaired the Editorial Board of Australian Universities Review from 1995 to 2000, edited the Australian Journal of Education from 2001 to 2005 and currently sits on the boards of Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Higher Education Quarterly, Journal of Education and Work, Critical Studies in Education, Journal of Southeast Asian Education, and Australian Universities Review. He is a Commissioning Editor of Thesis Eleven.
Higher education policy. Simon is a frequent public and media commentator on higher education, especially national policy in Australia. He has also conducted many education policy studies, basic and applied, including commissioned reports for the Australian and Victorian government, OECD and the Malaysian government; and from time to time he contributes to government and international agency committees, inquiries and meetings. Recent policy-related papers include work on university governance, implications of globalisation for higher education, global university rankings, federal-state relations in Australian education, policy on and regulation of international education in Australia, and the implications of the 2007 OECD comparisons in Education at a Glance with special reference to Australia.
Australian Research Council projects
ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2011, ‘University position-taking strategies in the global environment: a cross-country study of the Asia-Pacific region’ $318,000.
ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2010, ‘Boundary making and strategy making in knowledge-forming organisations’ $295,000 (with Mark Considine).
ARC Professorial Fellowship 2003-2007, and ARC Discovery Grant ‘The Enterprise University as networked university: investigating the contribution of Australian higher education institutions to social capital’ $539,000
‘The social and economic protection of cross-border students in the global education market’ ARC Discovery Grant 2005-2007 [with Chris Nyland, Gaby Ramia, Michael Gallagher] $210,000
Major awards
2004: Lifetime Fellow, Society for Research into Higher Education, UK
2002: George Z. F. Bereday award for the best journal article of 2001, Comparative and International Education Society (with Marcela Mollis, University of Buenos Aires)
2001: Outstanding Publications Award of the American Educational Research Association Division J (with Mark Considine)
1997: The Chancellor's Prize for excellence in the doctoral thesis, and the Harbison Higinbotham Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne [awarded to the outstanding PhD thesis of 1996 in all of the fields of arts, humanities and social sciences including law and business]
1997: Australian Association for Educational Research award for the outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of education [shared]
Recent paper presentations
Marginson, S. - Globalization, Knowledge and Competition in Higher Education, Kumamoto University, 13 October 2009 (Slides)
Marginson, S. - Tradition and change in universities: The case of Australia, Hijiyama University Japan, 16 October 2009 (Slides)
Marginson, S. - The limits of market reform in higher education, lecture to Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE), Hiroshima University, Japan, 17 August 2009 (Slides)
Marginson, S. - Presentation on global position and positioning of Australian higher education, to Vice-Chancellor’s Luncheon, James Cook University, 5 May 2009
Marginson, S. - Australian Higher Education and the World: Has the Bradley Report got it right? Speech to NTEU Breakfast forum, RMIT University, Melbourne, 21 April. (Slides)
Marginson, S. - Global strategies of Australian institutions, Financial Review Higher Education Conference 2009, Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney, 9-10 March 2009 (Slides)
Marginson, S - What does the international picture tell us?, paper presented at the opening forum of the National Centre for Student Equity, University of South Australia, 25-26 February 2009 (Slides)
Marginson, S. - Global imaginings and strategies in higher education, paper for panel on ‘Constituting the Knowledge Economy: Governing the new regional spaces of higher education’, International Studies Association Conference, New York, 15-18 February 2009
Marginson, S. - Competition and public goods in higher education: Public universities in the context of globalization, markets and the New Public Management, a conceptual discussion. Prepared for seminar at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 29 January (2009)
Marginson, S. - National system reform in global context: The case of Australia. Paper presented at the conference on Reforms and consequences in higher education system: An international symposium, Center for National University Finance and Management (CNUFM), National Center of Sciences, Hitotubashi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 26 January (2009) (Slides)
Marginson, S. (2008) - “Ideas of a University” for the global era. Paper for seminar on ‘Positioning University in the Globalized World: Changing Governance and Coping Strategies in Asia. Centre of Asian Studies, The University of Hong Kong; Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government; and The Hong Kong Institute of Education. 10-11 December 2008, The University of Hong Kong. (Slides)
Marginson, Simon - Looking Forwards: What will Swinburne be like in another 50 years? The ‘Idea of a University’ yesterday, today and tomorrow. Final lecture in The Centenary Lectures 2008, Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Hawthorn Campus, Swinburne University of Technology, 21 November (2008). (Slides)
Marginson, S. - Globalization, national development and university rankings. Paper for International Symposium on ‘University ranking: Global trends and comparative perspectives’, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam 13 November, 2008. (Slides)
Marginson, S. - ELT and Globalization: Education and language for national development in the global knowledge economy. Paper for International Conference: ‘Rethinking English language education for today’s Vietnam’, Vietnam National University/ Hanoi University of Languages and International Studies, 14 November, 2008. (Slides)
Marginson, S. - Global, multiple and engaged: Has the ‘Idea of a University’ changed in the era of the global knowledge economy? Paper for Fifth International Workshop on Higher Education Reforms, 'The Internationalization of Higher Education and Higher Education Reforms', Institute of Higher Education, School of Education Sciences, East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China, 4-6 November (2008) Slides
Marginson, S. - The knowledge economy and the potentials of the global public sphere, paper for Beijing Forum 2008, Panel Session V, 'Continuities and change in world politics: globalization or glocalization?', Peking University, 7-9 November (2008) Slides, Short paper
Marginson, S. - The Global Knowledge Economy Comes to Town: What does this mean for American higher education? Is it the end of the University as we know it? Public Lecture at University of California, Riverside, United States of America, 8 October (2008). Slides
Marginson, S. - A funny thing happened on the way to the K-economy: The new world order in higher education. Research rankings, outcomes measures and institutional classifications, lead plenary paper to annual conference of the OECD Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) program, Paris, 8-10 September (2008). Slides
Marginson, S. - Research rankings, outcomes measures and institutional classifications: Value formation in the k-economy, keynote paper at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER), Pavia, Italy, 11-13 September (2008).Marginson, S. - The sticky fluidity of knowledge work, paper for conference on 'Moving Ideas and Research Policies: Australian intellectuals in the global context', 22-23 July, Monash University, Melbourne (2008) Slides
Marginson, S. - What can the University of Melbourne do to enhance the quality of international experience? Provost's Summit, University of Melbourne, 22 July 2008. Slides
Marginson, S. - Trends and Issues in Australian higher education participation, Group of Eight Forum on Higher Education and Social Inclusion, University of Melbourne, 16 July 2008.
Marginson, S. - The Global Higher Education Environment, Melbourne International Planning Week, University of Melbourne, 14 July
Marginson, S - The External Dimension: Positioning the European Higher Education Area in the global higher education world, presentation to the seminar on 'Bologna 2020: Unlocking Europe's potential, contributing to a better world', 19-20 May, Ghent, Belgium (2008)
Marginson, S. - Higher Education and Globalization: Issues for research Part II : Cross-border mobility, flows and the globalization of the academic profession, paper for the Executive Forum of the European Association for International Education, Berlin, 29 February (2008) Slides
Marginson, S. - Global University rankings, paper for symposium, 'Comparing colleges: the implications of classification, ranking and peer analysis for research and practice', annual conference of the Association for Studies in Higher Education, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 6-10 November (2007) Slides
Marginson, S. - Yes Virginina, these are human agents and they have histories: ways of rethinking the research construction of 'international students', paper for symposium, 'Reconceptualizing international students: exploring identities and roles from alternative perspectives', paper for International Forum of the annual conference of the Association for Studies in Higher Education, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 6-10 November (2007) Slides
Marginson, S. - Academic self-determination and radical-critical breaks in knowledge, paper for symposium, 'University autonomy and academic freedom in space and time: commonalities, variations, trends', paper for International Forum of the annual conference of the Association for Studies in Higher Education, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 6-10 November (2007) Slides
Marginson, S. - Global flows and global field: a theoretical framing of worldwide relations of power in higher education, paper for International Forum of the annual conference of the Association for Studies in Higher Education, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 6-10 November (2007) Slides
Marginson, S. - Higher education in the global knowledge economy, paper presented to Panel Session VIII, Social Change and University Development, at the Beijing Forum 2007, Peking University, 2-4 November (2007) Presentation Slides
Marginson, S.The global positioning of Australian higher education: where to from here?, inaugural professorial lecture, Dean’s Lecture Series, Faculty of Education, 16 October (2007) Presentation
Marginson, S. The 2007 edition of Education at a Glance: Where does Australia sit in the OECD Comparison?, paper to CSHE Seminar on ‘Ideas and Issues in Higher Education’, 15 October (2007) Presentation
Marginson, S. International comparisons can be fun, paper to CSHE Seminar on ‘Ideas and Issues in Higher Education’, 15 October (2007)
Marginson, S. - Australian higher education in global context, presentation to Professional Development Program, University of Melbourne, 20 September (2007)
Marginson, S. - Policy settings and system relations in higher education, presentation at DEST staff seminar, Canberra, 13 September (2007)
Marginson, S. - Australian education (mostly higher education) in global context, presentation to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria, 31 August (2007)
Marginson, S. - Rankings - Market mana or menace? Paper for the 16th Annual New Zealand International Education Conference, 'The Big Picture’, 8-10 August, Christchurch, New Zealand (2007) Presentation
Marginson, S. – Global setting, national policy and higher education in 2007, paper at seminar on 'Advancing Tertiary Education', Education, Science and the Future of Australia: A Public Seminar Series on Policy, University of Melbourne, 9 July Presentation
Marginson, S. – Higher education, the 2007 Federal election and beyond, keynote address to the annual conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), Adelaide, 8 July (2007) Presentation
Marginson, S. – In the global context: national policy on international education, Paper for University of Melbourne Centre for Public Policy and Centre for the Study of Higher Education symposium, 'Higher Education and the 2007 Federal Election: Global Markets and Local Policy', 5 June 2007
Marginson, S. – The Economics of Education: The future of higher education in Australia, Paper for the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) Forum, Melbourne, 13 June 2007
Marginson, S. – Are neo-liberal reforms friendly to academic freedom and creativity? Some theoretical and practical reflections on the constituents of academic self-determination in research universities, University of Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education Seminar, ‘Ideas and Issues in Higher Education’, 28 May 2007
Marginson, S. – Federal/state relations in education and the 2006 Work Relations case, paper presented at an Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) & Academy of Social Sciences Australia (ASSA) Policy Roundtable on Federalism, 17-18 May, University of Canberra, Canberra (2007)
Marginson, S. – Going Global: Trends in higher education and research in the APEC region, paper to the APEC HRD Working Group Symposium on Education Policy Challenges, Brisbane, 17 April (2007)
Marginson, S. – Global university rankings: where to from here? Paper to the conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education, National University of Singapore, 9 March (2007)
Marginson, S. – “One little piece of endless sky… ” Global flows and global field: Imagining worldwide relations of power in higher education, paper to ESRC-funded seminar on ‘Geographies of Knowledge/Geometries of Power: Global Higher Education in the 21st Century’, Gregynog, Wales, 5-7 February (2007)
Marginson, S. – Global university rankings at the end of 2006: Is this the hierarchy we have to have? OECD/IMHE & Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Germany, Workshop on Institutional Diversity: Rankings and typologies in higher education, Bonn, 4-5 December (2006)
Marginson, S. – Hayekian neo-liberalism and academic freedom, Keynote address to Philosophy of Education Society of Australia, Women’s College, University of Sydney, 23 November (2006)
Marginson, S. – Globalisation and Higher Education: Capacity and strategy in the Asia-Pacific, GUNI-AP (UNESCO) conference, Bangkok Thailand, 9-11 November (2006)
Marginson, S. – Power, politics and university reform from a global perspective, Symposium, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Meeting, International Forum, Anaheim, California, 2 November (2006)
Marginson, S. – Rethinking and Re-imagining Rankings: Multiple models for world class universities, Symposium, Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Meeting, International Forum, Anaheim, California, 1 November (2006)
Marginson, S. – Mission and identity for a post post-public university era, Keynote address to 6th Annual National Conference on University Governance, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 10-11 October (2006) Presentation
Marginson, S. – Global university rankings: private and public goods, 19th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Researchers of Europe conference, Kassel, Germany, 7-9 September (2006)
Marginson, S. – The global space: Some strategic implications for research-intensive universities, of cross-border flows and global rankings ‘Leading the Next Phase of Internationalisation’, U21 conference, Auckland, 10 May (2006)
Publications
Research reports, policy reports and submissions
Marginson, S. Preliminary submission to the Australian Government Review of Australian Higher Education, 21 April (2008)
Marginson, S. & Eijkman, H. – International education: Financial and organizational impacts in Australian universities, report prepared for the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, Monash University, Melbourne, July (2007)
Marginson, S., Weko, T., Channon, N., Luukkonen, T. & Oberg, J. –
Thematic Review of Tertiary Education: The Netherlands, Country Note,
Directorate of Education, Education and Training Policy Division,
OECD, Paris, OECD (2007)
Marginson, S. & van der Wende, M. Globalisation and Higher Education,
Education Working Paper Number 8, Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development, OECD, Paris, 6 July (2007)
Marginson, S. & McBurnie, G. – Cross-border post-secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region, for OECD, Internationalisation and Trade in Higher Education, OECD, Paris, pp. 137-204 (2004)
Books
Peters, M. A., Marginson, S. & Murphy, P. - Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy, Peter Lang Publishing (January 2009)
Marginson, S. and James, R. (eds.) - Education, Science and Public Policy – Ideas for an Education Revolution, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne (2008)
Marginson, S. (ed.) – Prospects of Higher Education: Globalization, market competition, public goods and the future of the university, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam (October 2007).
Marginson, S. – Education and Public Policy. In Chinese with new foreword. Translated by Zhou Xinhong and Sally Chiao, Zhejiang University Press, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China (2007)
Marginson, S. & Considine, M. – The Enterprise University. In Chinese with new foreword. Translated by Yan Huixian and Sally Chiao, Zhejiang University Press, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China (2007)
Marginson, S., Weko, T., Channon, N., Luukkonen, T. & Oberg, J. – Thematic Review of Tertiary Education: The Netherlands, country note, Directorate of Education, Education and Training Policy Division, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, OECD (2007)
Marginson, S. (ed.) – Investing in social capital: postgraduate training in the social sciences in Australia, a project of the Academy of Social Sciences, Australia, Curtin University Press, Perth, also published as Journal of Australian Studies 74 (2002)
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. – Monash: the remaking of the university, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, xvi + 280 pp. (2000)
Marginson, S. - Markets in education, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, xvi + 324 pp. (1997)
Marginson, S. - Educating Australia: Government, economy, and citizen since 1960, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & Melbourne, xi + 276 pp. (1997)
Marginson, S. - Education and public policy in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & Melbourne, xv + 286 pp. (1993)
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)
Other publications since 2003 inclusive
chapters
Marginson, S. – University rankings, government and social order: managing the field of higher education according to the logic of the performative present-as-future, in M. Simons, M. Olssen & M. Peters (eds.) Re-reading Education Policies: Studying the policy agenda of the 21st century, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam [handbook in production]
Marginson, S. – The academic professions in the global era, in J. Enders and E. de Weert (eds.), The Academic Profession and the Modernization of Higher Education: Analytical and comparative perspectives, Springer, Dordrecht [accepted 29 June 2007, in production]
Marginson, S. – Five somersaults in Enschede: Rethinking public/private in higher education for the global era, in J. Enders & B. Jongbloed (eds.) Public-Private Dynamics in Higher Education, Springer, Dordrecht [accepted 7 September 2005, in press]
Berman, E.H. with S. Marginson, R. Preston, B.E. McLennan & 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, 3rd edition (2007)
Marginson, S., The new higher education landscape: public and private goods, in global/national/local settings, in S. Marginson (Ed.) Prospects of Higher Education: Globalization, market competition, public goods and the future of the university, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam (2007).
Marginson, S., Global university rankings, in S. Marginson (Ed.) Prospects of Higher Education: Globalization, market competition, public goods and the future of the university, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam (2007).
Marginson, S. – National and global competition in higher education, on B. Lingard & J. Ozga (eds.) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics, Routledge, London, pp. 131-153 (2007)
Marginson, S. – Revisiting the definitions of ‘internationalisation’ and ‘globalisation’, in J. Enders & F. van Vught (eds.), Towards a Cartography of Higher Education Policy Change: A Festschrift in honour of Guy Neave, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, Enschede, pp. 213-219 (2007)
Marginson, S. – Freedom as control and the control of freedom: F.A. Hayek and the academic imagination, in C. Kayrooz, G. Akerlind and M. Tight (eds.), Autonomy in Social Science Research. The view from United Kingdom and Australian universities. International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, Vol. 4. Elsevier, Amsterdam. pp. 67-104, Elsevier (2006)
Marginson, S. – Rethinking the economics of education; The public/private divide in higher education, in B. Grewal and M. Kumnick, Engaging the New World: Responses to the knowledge economy, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 53-76 (2006)
Marginson, S. – Cities of angels and the barbarians at the gates, in J. Enders, J. File, J. Huisman & D. Westerheijden (eds.) The European Higher Education and Research Landscape 2020: Scenarios and strategic debates, Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, Enschede, pp. 209-215 (2005)
Marginson, S. – Education and human capital, in P. Saunders & J. Walter (eds.) Ideas and Influence: Social Science and Public Policy in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 64-84 (2005)
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. – Higher education, in R. Manne (ed.) The Howard Years, Black Inc. Agenda, Melbourne, pp. 216-244 (2004)
Marginson, S. & McBurnie, G. – Cross-border post-secondary education in the Asia-Pacific region, for 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 & A. Amaral (eds.) Markets in Higher Education: Rhetoric or reality?, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 207-240 (2004)
Marginson, S. - The Whitlam government and education, in It’s Time Again – Whitlam and modern Labor, eds. J. Hocking & C. Lewis, Circa, Melbourne, pp. 244-272 (2003)
Berman, E.H. with S. Marginson, R. Preston, B.E. McLennan & 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. – Education, in D. Hayward & P. Ewer (eds.), Visions for Victoria, The Vulgar Press, Melbourne 2003, pp. 123-144 (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)
Articles in refereed journals
Marginson, S. – Introduction, Thesis Eleven, 96, pp. 5-8 (2009)
Marginson, S. – Open source knowledge and university rankings, Thesis Eleven, 96, pp. 9-39 (2009)
Marginson, S - Global field and global imagining: Bourdieu and worldwide higher education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29 (3), pp. 303-315
Forbes-Mewett, H., Marginson, S., Nyland, C., Ramia, G. & Sawir, E. - Australian University International Student Finances [drafted 2008 currently under consideration]
Nyland, C., Forbes-Mewett, H., Marginson, S., Ramia, G., Sawir, E. & Smith, S. - International Student-Workers in Australia: A new vulnerable workforce [drafted 2008 currently under consideration]
Marginson, S. and van der Wende, M. - To rank or be ranked? The impact of global rankings in higher education, Journal of Studies in International Education, 11 (3/4), pp. 306-329
Marginson, S. - Global University Rankings: Implications in general and for Australia, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 29(2), pp. 131–142 (2007)Snyder, I., Lewis, T. & Marginson, S. – 'An alignment of the planets': mapping the intersections between pedagogy, technology and management in Australian universities, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 29 (2), pp. 187-202 (2007)
Sawir, E., Marginson, S., Deumert, A., Nyland, C. & Ramia, G. - Loneliness and international students: An Australian study. Journal of Studies in International Education, 12, (2), 148-180. (2008)
Marginson, S. – Global position and position-taking: the case of Australia, Journal of Studies in International Education, 11 (1), pp. 5-32, (2007), as summarised in "Campus Review" 27 March 2007
Marginson, S. - Globalisation, the ‘idea of a university’ and its ethical regimes, Higher Education Management and Policy, 19 (1), pp. 19-34 (2007)
Marginson, S. - University mission and identity for a post post-public era, Higher Education Research and Development, 26 (1), pp. 117-131 (2007)
Marginson, S. – The public/private division in higher education: a global revision, Higher Education, 53, pp. 307-333 (2007)
Marginson, S. – Putting ‘public’ back into the public university, Thesis Eleven, 84, pp. 44-59 (2006)
Marginson, S. – Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education, Higher Education, 52, pp. 1-39 (2006)
Marginson, S. & Sawir, E. - University leaders’ strategies in the global environment: A comparative study of Universitas Indonesia and the Australian National University, Higher Education, 52, pp. 343-373 (2006)
Lewis, T., Marginson, S. & Snyder, I. – The networked university? Technology, culture and organisational complexity in contemporary higher education, Higher Education Quarterly, 59 (1), pp. 56-75 (2005)
Marginson, S. & Sawir, E.– Interrogating global flows in higher education, Globalisation, Societies and Education, 3 (3), November, pp. 281-309 (2005)
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, Global Social Policy, 5 (3), pp. 329-352 (2005)
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. – Don’t 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 & 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. & 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)
Review essays & handbook/encyclopedia entries
Marginson, S. – Education Policy, in B. Galligan and W. Roberts (eds) Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Oxford [in press]
Marginson, S. – Australia, in J. Forrest and P. Altbach (eds) International Handbook of Higher Education, Springer, pp. 587-611, (2006)
Marginson, S. – Education, in P. Beilharz and T. Hogan (eds) Sociology: Place, time and division, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 242-246(2006)
Marginson, S. – Shakespeare, Einstein and the bottom line, review of book of that title by David Kirp, Teachers College Record, 108 (5), pp. 434-438 (2006)
Marginson, S. – Engaging democratic education in the neo-liberal age, Educational Theory 56 (2), pp. 205-219 (2006)
Marginson, S. – The Anglo-American university at its global high tide, Minerva, 44, pp. 65-87 (2006)
Marginson, S. – Monash University, in A. Brown-May and S. Swain (eds.) The Encylopedia of Melbourne, revised edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 482 (2005)
Marginson, S. – Bright networks and dark spaces: implications of Manuel Castells for higher education, Academe Online, American Association of University Professors, 90 (3), May-June (2004)
Published conference proceedings
Deumert, A., Marginson, S., Nyland, C., Ramia, G. & Sawir, E. - ‘The social and economic security of international students in Australia: a study of 200 student cases’, paper to the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, 28 November to 2 December (2004)
Deumert, A., Marginson, S., Nyland, C., Ramia, G. & Sawir, E. -Factors affecting the social and economic security of international students: first results from student interviews, paper to the 15th annual conference of the International Student Advisors Network of Australia (ISANA), 1-3 December (2004)
Burnheim, C. & Marginson, S. – Social capital and higher education institutions, symposium paper at the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, 28 November to 2 December (2004)
Marginson, S. – Markets in higher education – national and global competition, Radford Memorial Lecture to the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education conference, Auckland New Zealand, 2 December (2003). http://www.aare.edu.au