Dr Anne Corbett
Visiting Fellow
European Institute
Tel: +44 (0)20 7849 4611
Email: a.corbett@lse.ac.uk
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Biography
Anne Corbett is a Visiting Fellow in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. As a former journalist she has written widely on education and public policy in Britain and France, and French political and cultural life, and continues to contribute to the Guardian, Times Higher Education, Open Democracy and the online blog GlobalHigherEd. She has been an active member of the Franco-British Council, including a period as Deputy Chair of its British Section from 2002-2007. She was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2005.
Her main research interest as a political scientist is in the Europeanisation of higher education, including the creation of a European Higher Education Area, and the academic drive to get higher education recognised as a area of policy interest to European studies. This has led to invitations to share her research with universities and public bodies throughout Europe and in the US and to teach on European summer schools.
Recent books include Universities and the Europe of Knowledge: ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Union Higher Education Policy, 1955-2005 (Palgrave Macmillan 2005).
Selected Publications
2011
Corbett, Anne (2011) Ping pong: competing leadership for reform in EU higher education 1998–2006. European Journal of education, 46 (1). pp. 36-53. ISSN 0141-8211
2010
Corbett, Anne (2010) Public management policymaking in France: legislating the Organic Law on Laws of Finance (LOLF), 1998–2001. Governance, 23 (2). pp. 225-249. ISSN 0952-1895
2009
Universities Challenged: Shaping the Future of Higher Education Standards in Europe. Centre for Parliamentary Studies International Conference. December 9, 2009, Brussels
'Reforming Public Management: French Budget Reform 1998-2001' Ministry of Planning Seminar. Reforming Public Management: French Budget Reform, 1998-2001, Brasilia, October 26-28, 2009.
'Academic mobility: lessons from the European experience?' Ministry of Planning Seminar for Ministry of Education, Brasilia, October 26-28, 2009.
'Mobility and the Global Search for Talent: European Options for the UK' . Universities Europe: Longer term developments in European higher education and the implications for UK higher education. Report of a seminar organised by Universities UK. Bath. 10 – 11 June 2009.
'In the Right Place and for a Long time: Policy Entrepreneurship in the Construction of the European Higher Education Area'. University of Michigan Conference on European Integration (European Union Center of Excellence, Center for European Studies and the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, March 6-9, 2009.
'Rules everyone can live with? Why a European Higher Education Area is being constructed through the Bologna Process'. Seminar of the European Centre of Excellence, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. USA. March 8, 2009.
'What the History of European Higher Education can tell the Bologna Generation' Centre for High Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) CSTM IIT Summer School Universiteit Twente, Enschede. July 6-10, 2009.
2007
'Process, Persistence and Pragmatism: Reconstructing the Creation of the European University Institute and the Erasmus Programme, 1955-87' in European Integration and Higher Education Governance: The Challenges and Complexities of a Multi-level Governance System. Editors A. Amaral, P. Maassen and G. Neave. Forthcoming.
'How to understand EU HE processes: Generalisations from a Case Study of EU Higher Education Policy, 1955-87. European Education Policy Network conference: Defining the European Education Agenda . Faculty of Education and Pembroke College, Cambridge University January 11, 2007.
2006
'Higher Education as a Form of European Integration: How Novel is the Bologna Process?' ARENA Working Paper Series 15/2006
'Key moments of the European Political Debate on Education' in Political Approaches to European Identity. Magna Charta Observatory. Bologna: Bononia University Press
2005
Universities and the Europe of Knowledge: Ideas, Institutions and Policy Entrepreneurship in European Community Higher Education Policy, 1955-2005. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
2000
'The European Community, a case study of higher education policy-making', in I. McNay (ed) Higher Education and its communities, Buckingham: Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press.
1996
Corbett, A. and Moon, B. (eds) Education in France, Continuity and Change in the Mitterrand Years, 1981-1995, London: Routledge
Presentations
2011
'The European Model of Internationalisation: What has the Bologna Process Contributed?' Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg International Conference, with DAAD(German Academic Exchange Council) Freiburg. February 10-11, 2011.
2010
'Ping-Pong: Competing Pressures for Reform in EU Higher Education 1998-2007' EIE European Integration and Education Seminar, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. November 17, 2010.
'The UK and the European Higher Education Area: Assumptions and Unexpected Consequences'. Centre for European Studies Seminar, IE University, Madrid. October 27, 2010.
'The Everyday Decision-Making of the Bologna Process: how robust is it?' UACES 2010, Bruges. September 6-8, 2010.
'Competitiveness and its Limits: General Lessons from the European Experience of Higher Education Reform in the Last Decade '. Drivers of Change: What can we learn by comparing US and EU University Education at the University Level. International Conference. Lazarski University, Fulbright Poland, Harvard Club of Poland. Warsaw. June 18-19, 2010.
'More Than A Market? The Political Dimension of the EHEA' International Conference of UNESCO Chair for Governance and Management of Higher Education and University of Zagreb, Zagreb. March 5-6, 2010.
'Rules Everyone Can Live With. How UK Policy-Makers Have Come to Terms with the Bologna Process' LSE EILS (European Institute Lunchtime Seminar), LSE.
'The UK's Ambiguous European Choice: British Higher Education Prepares for an EHEA' Seventeenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Montreal. April 13-16
2009
Universities Challenged: Shaping the Future of Higher Education Standards in Europe. Centre for Parliamentary Studies International Conference. December 9, 2009, Brussels
'Reforming Public Management: French Budget Reform 1998-2001' Ministry of Planning Seminar. Reforming Public Management: French Budget Reform, 1998-2001, Brasilia, October 26-28, 2009.
'Academic mobility: lessons from the European experience?' Ministry of Planning Seminar for Ministry of Education, Brasilia, October 26-28, 2009.
'Mobility and the Global Search for Talent: European Options for the UK' . Universities Europe: Longer term developments in European higher education and the implications for UK higher education. Report of a seminar organised by Universities UK. Bath. 10 – 11 June 2009.
'In the Right Place and for a Long time: Policy Entrepreneurship in the Construction of the European Higher Education Area'. University of Michigan Conference on European Integration (European Union Center of Excellence, Center for European Studies and the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, March 6-9, 2009.
'Rules everyone can live with? Why a European Higher Education Area is being constructed through the Bologna Process'. Seminar of the European Centre of Excellence, University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc. USA. March 8, 2009.
'What the History of European Higher Education can tell the Bologna Generation' Centre for High Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) CSTM IIT Summer School Universiteit Twente, Enschede. July 6-10, 2009.
2008
'From the Bologna Process to the European Higher Education Area: A Research Perspective'. 'Etudiants et Universités d'Europe: parcours, expériences et convergences. French Presidency Rencontre européenne de journalistes de l'éducation. Centre international d'études pedagogiques, Sèvres, November 26-29, 2008.
'Steering the Bologna Process – Creating a New Political Space'. Excellence and Diversity in Higher Education. Meanings, Goals, and Instruments. CHER Conference 2008 Sept 11-13 Universita degli Studi di Pavia, September 11-13 2008.
'Education: the multiple faces of Europeanization: Steering the Bologna Process to succeeding commitments'. Exchanging Ideas on Europe, UACES Annual Research Conference, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, 1-3 September, 2008.
'University Autonomy and the European Higher Education Area: An opportunity to reframe the issue'. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Stockholm, on behalf of the Government appointed Commission on University Autonomy, chaired by Professor Daniel Tarchys. Stockholm, June 2, 2008.
'The Role of Higher Education for Human and Social Development in Europe'. Higher Education, New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development, Global University Network for Innovation. Barcelona, April 1-3, 2008.
'Where does Europe fit in? Institutionalist perspectives on the Europeanisation of Higher Education through the Bologna Process'. Quo vadis universitas? The Observatory on Research and Dialogue on the Greek University. Athens International Conference "Quo vadis Universitas", Athens, 27 - 29 March, 2008.
2007
'Higher Education as a Case of European Integration: What lies behind the Bologna Process 'Curtains'?' Advancing the European Education Agenda. European Education Policy Network. Brussels and Leuven, 30 Nov-1 Dec 2007.
'Looking Back and Moving Forward: Lessons from an earlier European Higher Education Policy Making'. Education Unites, Common Values-Common Future. State University-Higher School of Economics. Moscow, October 17-18, 2007.
'How to Understand EU Higher Education Policy Processes: Generalisations from a Case Study of EU Higher Education Policy 1955-1987'. European Education Policy Network, January 11. Cambridge
2006
'Can the Bologna Process Deliver?' European Network for the Promotion of Language Learning among all Undergraduates (ENLU) Nancy, April 7-8, 2006.
'Academic Freedom: Are the Bologna and Lisbon Processes a Support or a Handicap?' Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Colloquium on University Accountability and Autonomy in the 21st Century, Prague, March 30, 2006
'The Bologna Process and European Trends: Towards Common Policy-Making in Higher Education'. University of London Institute of Education, Masters in Comparative Education: European Traditions and Systems. London, March 8, 2006.
'Les Universités et l'Europe des Connaissances'. Association des Membres de L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, London, January 28, 2006.
2005
'The Student Experience and the European Dimension in Higher Education Policy-Making'. Society for Research in Higher Education Conference, Edinburgh, December 14-15.
'The Process Dynamics of Public Management Policy Change in the European Commission', (co-authored with Michael Barzelay). EPCR Conference, Corvinus University, Budapest, Sept 8-10, 2005.
'The Process Dynamics of Public Management Policy Change in the European Commission' (co-authored with Michael Barzelay). UACES conference Zagreb, Croatia Sept 5-7. 2005.
2004
'Britain in Europe and Europe in Britain: The Europeanisation of British Politics?' Paper: 'Europeanisation and the Bologna Process. a preliminary to a British study'. University of Sheffield/ESRC and UACES, Sheffield Town Hall, July 16, 2004.
'Forces for the creation of international relationships between universities: the Bologna Process' .Transformations experienced by higher education and research institutions in European countries, First International Euredocs Conference Sciences Po, Paris, June 24-26 2004 http://euredocs.sciences-po.fr/en/conference/2004/anne_corbett.pdf|
2003
'The White Paper and the Bologna agreement: are they compatible?' SRHE newsletter September and SRHE seminar, London 1 July
'From Messina to Maastricht: ideas, institutions and policy entrepreneurship, a process explanation'. Presentation to the seminar Enseignement Superieur, directed by Christine Musselin, at Sciences Po, Paris, 21 November 2003. Session 'The birth and the development of EU policies for a European higher education area'.
'Lessons of history: Have French governments used Europe to promote higher education reform?' paper presented to a study day organized by the UACES Study Group 'French Relations with the European Union' on 'The EU as an Opportunity or a Threat? French Higher Education Policy and Europe', London School of Economics and Political Science, November 14, 2003.
'A window on the EC policy process: EC higher education, from idea to policy decisions, 1955-87', UACES 8th Research Conference, University of Newcastle September 2-4,2003
'Ideas, institutions and policy entrepreneurship in EU policy-making, 1955-95' Presentation to Open University Centre for Higher Education Research and Information, Higher Education Study Group (CHERI-HESG) April 3,2003
'Policy entrepreneurs: a neglected entity in European Union policy making?' Presentation to Comparative Public Management course, Bocconi University, 24 February 2003.
2002
'Policy entrepreneurs in EC higher education policy, 1955-87: process, actions, identities'. ECPR First Pan-European Conference, Bordeaux, September 2002.
Teaching
July 2010 Summer School of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo]
Ten lectures: Engaging the University in Europe. Understanding the History of an Idea Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. July 26-30, 2010
October 2009 Two lectures and one workshop for Brazilian civil servants. Invitation from Executive Vice- Secretary of the Ministry of Planning. Brasilia. June 20-25 2009. Learning from the European Continent's Trans-Continental Experience in Higher Education. (i) Erasmus and its impact on European Integration. (ii) UK and France - National differences: where they were, where they are, where are they heading?(iii) How the French reformed their budget law: a public management policy reading.
July 2009 Lecture on Historical Knowledge and Policy Making. Centre for High Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) Summer School Universiteit, Twente, Enschede. July 6-10, 2009.