Globalisation, Education and Work research group

Globalisation, Education and Work Research Group

Interdisciplinary research into teaching, learning and leadership practices that help advance sustainable, civilized and just societies.

About the group

Globalisation, Education and Work Faculty Research Group (GEW FRG) provides a platform for research on globalisation, education and work to enhance learning, teaching, and leadership that advance sustainable civilized and just societies, and build individuals' and communities' capacities for work and democratic politics.

We are an interdisciplinary research group. Our research conversations are informed by disciplinary traditions and fields of research that include sociology, economics, praxis and ethics.

  • Sociology

  • Economics

  • Praxis

  • Ethics

Our interdisciplinary investigations track reform agenda that travel globally, and document change and continuities in education, and work within and between nation-states.

Research at the national scale examines reconfigurations of national education systems that reorganize educational work. Studies of internationalization at global and international scales examine what travels between nations and the implications for internationalizing policy, curriculum, pedagogies, students and staff. Both these lines of inquiry inform our analysis of transnational knowledge building and its challenges and consequences for research on tertiary education, professional education and educational work in diverse learning spaces and workplaces.

Core research questions

  • Global sociology of education

    What are the effects of globalisation in remaking education policy, practice, knowledge and social justice?

  • Tertiary education

    How do national tertiary education systems and institutions re-interpret their purposes and practices in the context of global transformations and with what effects on people's experiences?

  • Education policy and governance

    What do education policy and governance entail in theory and practice? What are the factors that influence education policy making?

  • Educational praxis and leadership

    What educational praxis and knowledge build professional and leadership capacities required in diverse educational spaces and intercultural boundary zones?

  • Globalisation and international education

    How can international education be organised to enhance teaching and learning for learners, educators, academics, researchers and educational institutions?

  • Cultural studies in education

    How to comprehend culture in all of its complexities, as well as analyze the social and political contexts in which culture manifests itself? What is the best way to look into cultural practices and how they relate to education?

  • Identity politics and social change

    How are identities of learners, educators, and workers shaped by local, national and globalising forces and vice-versa?

  • Economics of education and training

    What are the contributions of education and training to economic and social development?

Group leaders

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Faculty members

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Fellows

PhD graduands / students

  • Dr Hanying Mao
  • Dr Asha Murali Syamala
  • Dr Weiqi Jiang
  • Dr Qingqing Xia
  • Grace Ji
  • Darren Fitzpatrick
  • Ryan Stubban
  • Liuyan Zhou
  • Richard Haywood
  • Ulil Nasiruddin
  • Xiaoyan Wang
  • Xinyu Zhao
  • Nurlaily
  • Muhannad Alsahafi
  • Jin Qu
  • Kaiyu Ma
  • Yaqing Hou
  • Yitong Wang

External partners

  • Dr Alexander McCormick (The University of Sydney)
  • Dr Li Kan (Macquarie University, Australia)
  • Dr Guangbao Fang (Fujian Normal University, China)
  • Dr Xiaojing Yan (Capital University of Economics and Business, China)
  • Dr Chunqi Zhou (Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, China)
  • Dr Kwok Kuen Tsang (The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
  • Professor Catherine Montgomery (The University of Durham, UK)
  • Professor Xiaodong Zeng (Beijing Normal University)
  • Dr Shu-hua Chao (Australian Catholic University)
  • Associate Professor Jinqiu Jiang (Capital University of Economics and Business,
    China)
  • Dr Setenyi Janos (Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Hungary)
  • Professor Halász Gábor (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)