Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher
Education at the University of Melbourne, where he works in the Centre for the
Study of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education. Simon’s work
focuses on education and knowledge, including international and global aspects
of higher education, national and cross-national higher education policy, and
the conditions of creative work. Much of his recent work has been focused on
higher education in East Asia. Simon has held continuous Australian Research
Council project funding since 1995 and recently completed the empirical
research for an 18-country study of the global strategies of research
universities in the Asia-Pacific. He is preparing monographs on higher
education, and globalization and higher education. He is a regular public and
media commentator on education matters and has completed policy-related
research for the OECD, the European Commission, and the governments of
Australia, Ireland, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam among others. Simon has
published more than 200 books, chapters and journal papers. His 2010 Cambridge
University Press book with Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir and Helen
Forbes-Mewett, International Student Security, was the culmination of
six years of research on international student welfare and rights. 2010 also
saw the release of two books on the culture of the knowledge economy with Peter
Murphy and Michael Peters, Global Creation and Imagination, both
of which are published by Peter Lang in New York. In 2011 his co-edited
collections Higher Education in the Asia Pacific (with Sarjit Kaur and
Erlenawati Sawir, published by Springer) and the Edward Elgar Handbook on
Globalization and Higher Education (with Roger King and Rajani Naidoo) were
released. Ideas for Intercultural Education (with Erlenawati Sawir) was
published by Palgrave Macmillan in November 2011. Simon is a coordinating
editor of the world journal Higher Education.
