Professor Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of Melbourne. Simon is one of the Coordinating Editors of Higher Education, which is the principal world scholarly journal in higher education studies. He is also a Commissioning Editor of the social theory journal Thesis Eleven, serves on 14 other Editorial Boards including Educational Researcher in the USA, and is a member of both the Editorial Board of Times Higher Education and the Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

Simon Marginson works in sociology and socio-cultural studies, political economy, political philosophy and history. He specializes primarily in higher education policy and organization, and comparative and international higher education, being one of the world’s most highly cited social science researchers in these fields. In the last decade he has carried out an empirical, scholarly and conceptual inquiry into globalization and higher education. This has included research on university rankings, and international student rights and security. The last culminated in the book International Student Security (with Nyland, Sawir and Forbes-Mewett, Cambridge University Press, 2010). In the last six years he has conducted case studies of the global visions and strategies of leading national research universities in each system in East and South East Asia, in parallel preparing the edited collection Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization (with Saur and Sawir, Springer, 2011). Simon has written three policy papers for OECD and done policy research work for government in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Japan and Ireland as well as Australia. Simon has won publication awards from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and a Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). He is a Lifetime Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in the UK and he delivered the opening keynote at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference in September 2011. He served as Chair of the ASHE Council for International Higher Education in 2005-2006. He has published more than 300 books, book chapters, refereed journal papers and reviews and is the most cited scholar working in Education in Australia. Four of his books have been translated and published in China and a fifth is in preparation. Among his publications are:

Books

MARGINSON, S. - Markets in education. Allen and Unwin, Sydney (1997).

MARGINSON, S. and CONSIDINE, M. – The enterprise university: Power, governance and reinvention in Australia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge & Melbourne (2000).

PETERS, M., MARGINSON, S. & MURPHY, P. - Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy. New York: Peter Lang (2009)

MARGINSON, S., MURPHY, P. & PETERS, M. – Global Creation: Space, mobility and synchrony in the age of the knowledge economy. Peter Lang, New York (2010).

MARGINSON, S., NYLAND, C., SAWIR, E. & FORBES-MEWETT, H. – International Student Security. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2010)

MURPHY, P., PETERS, M. & MARGINSON, S. – Imagination: Three models of the imagination in the age of the knowledge economy. Peter Lang, New York (2010).

PUSSER, B., KEMPNER, K., MARGINSON, S. and ORDORIKA, I. (eds.) - Universities and the Public Sphere: Knowledge creation and state building in the era of globalization. Routledge, New York (2011).

MARGINSON, S., KAUR, S. and SAWIR, E. (eds.) - Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization. Springer, Dordrecht (2011).

KING, R., MARGINSON, S. and NAIDOO, R. (eds.) - Handbook of Higher Education and Globalization. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (2011)

MARGINSON, S. and SAWIR, E. – Ideas for Intercultural Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York (2011)

Articles

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. – Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education, Higher Education, 52, pp. 1-39 (2006)

MARGINSON, S. – The public/private division in higher education: a global revision, Higher Education, 53, pp. 307-333 (2007)

MARGINSON, S. - Global field and global imagining: Bourdieu and relations of power in worldwide higher education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 29 (3), pp. 303-316 (2008)

MARGINSON, S. – The limits of market reform in higher education. Higher Education Forum, 7, March, pp. 1-19. Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University (2010)

MARGINSON, S. - Higher Education in East Asia and Singapore: Rise of the Confucian Model, Higher Education, 61 (5), pp. 587-611 (2011)

MARGINSON, S. – Equity, status and freedom: A note on higher education, Cambridge Journal of Education, 41 (1), pp. 23-36 (2011)

MARGINSON, S. - Including the Other: Regulation of the human rights of mobile students in a nation-bound world. Higher Education, published online, May (2011). DOI: 10.1007/s10734-011-9454-7

MARGINSON, S. – Higher education and public good. Higher Education Quarterly, published online, July (2011). DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2011.00496.x