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Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER)

News Archive: 2020/21

June 2021

  • Louise Morley started work as a member of the Advisory Board of new European research project: . UniSAFE is an EU-funded project that aims to produce better knowledge on gender-based violence and sexual harassment (GBV) in research performing organisations (RPOs), and to translate this knowledge into operational tools for higher education, research organisations and policymakers.

  • CHEER is delighted to welcome Professor Mary Stuart as a Visiting Professor. Professor Stuart is Vice -Chancellor of the University of Lincoln, and former PVC at Sussex. She has a strong track record in all aspects of university leadership, having worked in senior roles in three different universities.   Passionate about the student experience, Mary seeks to continually drive change and improvements in partnership with students, alumni and the academic community promoting the traditional concept of a community of scholars.  
    Mary is a regular contributor to WonkHE and speaks regularly on conference platforms about issues of equity, leadership and higher education.  She is also a member of the Advisory panel for HEPI.  
    We look forward to working with such a distinguished member of the higher education community.

  • Louise Morley facilitated a session at the online  (European Women Rectors' Association) entitled Can Women Make a Difference in University Leadership. Some questions that were considered included:
  1. What are your views on the recent valorisation of women leaders in the global pandemic? 
  2. How can we promote women’s leadership without degenerating into binary logics, homogenisation, and essentialisation? 
  3. Rather than focussing on counting more women into university leadership as it stands, let’s consider what type of leadership is required for universities in the post-pandemic period? What values, principles, and processes do we wish to see? 

May 2021

Louise Morley made a keynote presentation Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Disrupting Norms and Dissolving Disadvantage to the TARGET Project's Co-Creation Workshop on Sexual Harassment in Academia, and shared expert advice on policies and strategies with the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

 is a Horizon 2020 structural change project which supports 7 institutions in developing and implementing gender equality plans.  

Paul RobertsDecember 2020

  • Paul Roberts passed his viva on 16 December 2020 for his EdD thesis: The UK doctorate: policy, power, and professionals in the neoliberal university. The external examiner was Professor Rebecca Boden, Tampere University, Finland, and the internal examiner was Emerita Professor Valerie Hey. Louise Morley was Paul's first supervisor, and Barbara Crossouard was second supervisor.
    Congratulations Dr Roberts!

  • CHEER is delighted to announce that the Special Issue of  42 (01) from its 10th Anniversary Seminar is now available online. Guest editors Louise Morley, Valerie Hey, Meg Maguire
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    Louise Morley 
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    Valerie Hey, Sarah Leaney, and Daniel Leyton 
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    Annabel Wilson, Diane Reay, Kirsty Morrin,and Jessica Abrahams
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    Lisa Jones and Meg Maguire 
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    Valerie Walkerdine 
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    Ann-Marie Bathmaker 
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    Bridgette Rickett and Anna Morris 
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    Ana Luisa Muñoz-García 
    - Louise Morley and Rebecca Lund 
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    Sally Munt and Louise Morley
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    Paul Roberts