Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Dr Anne Corbett
Visiting Fellow, European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science

Anne Corbett is a Visiting Fellow of the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research interests are in the policies and politics of the EU and a wider Europe, with particular reference to the creation of the European Higher Education Area. Other interests include Franco-British public policy contrasts and comparisons and aspects of public management.

She has published widely. Her 2005 book Universities and the Europe of Knowledge: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Community Higher Education Policy, 1955-2005, has become a standard reference and has just been used as the basis for a University of Oslo summer school course.

Recent publications include a study of the political and legislative process leading to the passage of a new budget framework law in France (Governance April 2010). 'Process, Persistence and Pragmatism: Reconstructing the Creation of the European University Institute and the Erasmus Programme, 1955-89.' Eds: A.Amaral, C.Musselin and G.Neave.In A. Amaral, P. Maassen, C. Musselin and G. Neave (eds.) Bologna, Universities and Bureaucrats. Springer, Dordrecht (2009); ‘The Role of Higher Education for Human and Social Development in Europe’ in Higher Education in the World Yearbook 3. Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development. Global University Network for Innovation, Barcelona. Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan (2008) and ‘How to Understand EU Higher Education Policy Processes: Generalisations from a Case Study of EU Higher Education Policy 1955-1987’. European Education Policy Network, www.educationpolicy.eu .

She has also been invited as a speaker to numerous conferences in old and new member states of the EU and to American universities. She is a regular paper giver at scholarly conferences.

Before obtaining a doctorate from LSE in 2002, she was a journalist specialising in education in Britain, France and Europe, writing for the Times Educational Supplement, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and the Guardian among others. Anne Corbett has been active in developing closer Franco-British university relations, as former member, trustee and vice chair of the Franco-British Council. She is an Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Selected media, publications and presentations

Link to Dr. Corbett’s article in The Guardian: Six to be reckoned with at the Bologna conference

Link to Dr. Corbett’s guest entry on the GlobalHigherEd blog: A European view of the new Adelman report on the Bologna Process

Corbett, Anne (2009) Process, persistence and pragmatism: reconstructing the creation of the European University Institute and the Erasmus programme, 1955-89. In: Amaral, Alberto and Neave, Guy and Musselin, Christine and Maassen, Peter, (eds.) European integration and the governance of higher education and research. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 9781402095047

Corbett, Anne (2008) Steering the Bologna Process - creating a new political space. In:Excellence and diversity in higher education. Meanings, goals, and instruments. Conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (11-13 September 2008 : Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy).

Corbett, Anne (2006) Higher education as a form of European integration: how novel is the Bologna process? ARENA working paper series, 15. Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Contact details
Dr Anne Corbett
Visiting Fellow, European Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton St
London WC2A 2AE
T +44 (0)7900 490 533
Email a.corbett@lse.ac.uk
http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/a.corbett@lse.ac.uk/

PROFESSOR BRYAN D MACGREGOR, Vice-Principal Curriculum Reform
University of Aberdeen

Bryan MacGregor is a Vice-Principal at the University of Aberdeen. He oversaw the University's Curriculum Reform project from its initiation in July 2007 to the arrival of the first students under the new curriculum in September 2010. Prior to that, he was Head of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. He has held the MacRobert Chair in Land Economy since 1990. Before moving to Aberdeen, he worked as the property research manager for Prudential Portfolio Managers in London, for the Universities of Reading and Glasgow and for the Scottish Office Central Research Unit. He holds degrees in mathematics (Edinburgh), environmental planning (Heriot-Watt) and land economy (Cambridge). He is professionally qualified as both a chartered surveyor and as a planner. He speaks Scots Gaelic reasonably.

Links
University of Aberdeen's Curriculum Reform website including summary of project and full curriculum reform report

Article from University of Aberdeen on Prof. MacGregor's attendance at a roundtable event with the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Michael Russell, at the University of Hong Kong.

Article in The Guardian on Prof. MacGregor's role in the University of Aberdeen's Curriculum Reform: Brave new curriculum: Aberdeen University is radically changing its courses in 'the single most important step in its modern history'
Article in the Times Higher Education contrasting Aberdeen's curriculum reform approach to the Melbourne Model: The wizards of Oz

Contact details
Professor Bryan MacGregor
Vice-Principal
Edward Wright Building
Dunbar Street
OLD ABERDEEN
AB24 3QY
Scotland, UK
T: +44 (0) 1224 272356 or +44 (0) 1224 273316
Email: b.d.macgregor@abdn.ac.uk
www.abdn.ac.uk