Current Research Projects
Universities and City-Regional Development, ESRC funded Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES) (2008-2013)
Governance of Education Transitions in Europe (GOETE), FP7, EC funded (2009-2013)
Universities in Regional and Global Economies (URGE) FP7 Marie Curie IRSES
Universities in Knowledge Economies (UNIKE), FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network
The Bristol Bike Project – New Approaches to Social Innovation for Sustainable and Socially-Just Communities, ESRC, (2012-13)
FOODCYCLE – New Approaches to Social Innovation for Sustainable and Socially-Just Communities ESRC, (2012-13)
Privatisation in Education Initiative (PERI) – Open Society Foundation, (2010- )
GlobalHigherEd: Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge Spaces for the Knowledge Economy – Research Blog on Higher Education (2003-)
Global Regionalisms, Governance and Higher Education, WUN Global Challenges (2010-2013)
Completed Projects
Plan-International, Review of INGOs Interventions, 2008-9 [Principal with Dave Bainton] £4k
European Commission Network of Experts fund 2007-2010 Network of Experts in Social Sciences and Education (NESSE) [lead institution INRP, Lyon, France] Euro500,000
DfID A State of the Art Review of Globalisation and Education, 2004-2005 [Principal] £100k
ESRC eSocial Science, Access Grid Node, 2005 [Principal with Ros Sutherland], £30k
EU/Erasmus Thematic Network Globalisation and Europeanisation Network in Education, 2004- 2005 [Project Director} Euro167,000
EU/Erasmus Thematic Network Globalisation and Europeanisation Network in Education, 2003- 2004 [Project Director] Euro157,000
EU/Erasmus Thematic Network Globalisation and Europeanisation Network in Education, 2002- 2003 [Project Director] Euro174,000
ESRC/TLRP InterActive Education: Teaching and Learning in the Information Age, 2000-2003 [Co-director with Rosamund Sutherland and Peter John] £970k.
Marsden Award, Royal Society of New Zealand, Competitive Contractualism: Education and the New Social Settlement. 1999-2001, [Co-Investigator – with Professor Roger Dale] NZ$226,000
University of Auckland Research Committee, Re/regulating Teachers’ Labour in New Zealand, England and Alberta: A New Competitive Contractual Settlement? (1998) (Principal Investigator) NZ$7,600
ISAT Linkages Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand, Education, Social Policy and Racism, 1997, (Principal Investigator) NZ$2,000
Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, The Effect of Government Policy on Employment and Skill Training for NESB Migrants (1994) (Principal Investigator) AUS$36,000
Western Australian Department of Education, Employment and Training, Development of a State-Wide Youth Data Base (1993-4) (Principal Investigator) AUS$52,000
Edith Cowan University Research Committee, A Labour Process Analysis of the Advanced Skills Teacher (1993-4) (Principal Investigator) AUS$17,000)
Edith Cowan University Research Committee Teachers and Teaching in International Context, (1991-3) (Principal Investigator) AUS$27,000
Edith Cowan University Research Committee Teachers’ Perceptions of Current Reforms in Western Australian Schools (1991-2), (Principal Investigator) AUS$7,000
