The project is built around a regular research video seminar programme, complemented by face-to-face international conferences and publications, for example, in a special issue of the Journal of Higher Education Policy.
In addition to these more or less traditionally ‘academic’ outcomes, this project will have a significant ‘policy’ outcome. This project seeks to inform debate about the future of universities. The process of comparing universities in different societies at different times will create awareness of a greater range of possibilities, and allow us to offer a more informed critique of current planning. In particular we aim to lead the debate about ‘global’ universities.