Professor Simon Marginson awarded two Australian Research Council Discovery grants
On 26 September it was announced that Professor Simon Marginson of the CSHE had been awarded two Australian Research Council Discovery grants in the current round.
The research projects are titled University position-taking strategies in the global environment: a cross-country study of the Asia-Pacific region (2008-2011, $318,000, solo grant), and Boundary making and strategy making in knowledge-forming organisations (2008-2010, $295,000, joint grant with Prof. Mark Considine, Dean of Arts). ARC grants are awarded on the basis of open competition and rigorous academic peer scrutiny and are the premier grants for basic research in the social sciences in Australia. Both of Simon's project proposals were ranked in the top third of the projects successful at the ARC Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences Panel, i.e. in the top 7% of all applications. This confirms the leading role of the CSHE in research on higher and international education in Australia.
DP0881598
Prof SW Marginson
Approved University position-taking strategies in the global environment: a cross-country study of the Asia-Pacific region
Project Title
2008 : $ 85,000
2009 : $ 78,000
2010 : $ 80,000
2011 : $ 75,000
Primary RFCD 3301 EDUCATION STUDIES
Administering Organisation The University of Melbourne
Project Summary
Much of Asia is developing, modernising and globalising at a rapid pace. Higher education, science and research are central and are growing even more rapidly. The Asia-Pacific has great long-term geo-strategic significance for Australia, including education exports which earn $7 billion per year in the region. Our capacity to understand, to cooperate with and to compete with Asian universities within the worldwide field of higher education will closely affect our future. This project provides the first hard data on the global operations of leading universities in ten Asian nations and will be of value to government, business and education.
DP0881609
Prof SW Marginson; Prof M Considine
Approved Boundary making and strategy making in knowledge-forming organisations
Project Title
2008 : $ 95,000
2009 : $ 100,000
2010 : $ 100,000
Primary RFCD 3602 POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
Administering Organisation The University of Melbourne
Project Summary
Government policy is devoted to bettering linkages between university research and commercial product development in the knowledge economy. Yet little is known of relationships between university and non-university knowledge forming organisations (KFOs) and what policies and resources sustain and adjust the border between them. Different countries approach these issues in distinctive ways, in part because of public policy, in part through different endogenous dynamics. Using case study research in five countries, the project will identify ways the division of labour between different KFOs can be optimised, while sustaining their respective strengths, and maximising the opportunities for strategy and innovation.