Simon Marginson#
Membership Number: | 3867 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
Elected: | 2014 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/people/simon-marginson/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013, October to present - Professor of International Higher Education, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
- 2013, October to present - Honorary Professorial Fellow, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2009, June to October - Visiting Professor, Hiroshima University Research Institute for Higher Education, Japan
- 2006, July to 2013, October - Professor of Higher Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 2000, January to 2006, June - Professor with a Personal Chair in Education, Monash University, Australia, and Director of the Monash Centre for research in International Education
- 1998, July to 2000, January - Reader in Education, Monash University, Australia
- 1997, November to 1998, July - Reader and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
- 1993, January to 1997, November - Senior Lecturer, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of education
- Comparative and international education
- Global sociology
- Higher education studies
- History of education
- Education policy
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Chosen by the University of California as the Clark Kerr lecturer on higher education for 2014, first non-American to be so chosen
- 2011 Award for Distinguished Contribution to International Education, Australian International Education Conference, Adelaide
- 2011 Melbourne Education Research Institute Research Institute Staff Research Award, ‘for an outstanding research record by a staff member’, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
- 2008 The Woodward medal in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Melbourne, ‘in recognition of an exceptional contribution to knowledge in the field’, for research published in 2003-2007 on higher education and globalization’. The University’s rules state that: ‘The Woodward Medal is awarded annually to a member of staff for research ... considered to have made the most significant contribution to knowledge in a field of humanities or social sciences’.
- 2005 elected member of El Seminario de Educacion Superior de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico [the National University of Mexico, Mexico City]]
- 2004 elected as Honorary Fellow, Society for Research into Higher Education, UK
- 2002 appointed Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellow for 2003-2007 [salary funded by the Council, success rate in applications for this post from all fields about 5 per cent, Marginson first successful applicant from discipline of education]]
- 2000 elected as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Australia, in Sociology Division