Society@Space

Just to the south-east of Berlin, at the end of S-Bahn line 3 is Erkner, a 12.000 soul town in the state of Brandenburg known for its industrial heritage, its beautiful lakes – and an internationally renowned social science research institution it houses: The Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS). Formerly dedicated to spatial planning and reginal development, IRS now researches dynamics of social change past and present, from climate and energy policies to innovation and digitalization, from migration and urban regeneration to the history of planning. In our podcast Society@Space, both IRS researchers and guests of IRS talk about their passion for questions that matter, their inspirations and experiences, their engagement with practical societal problems and their thoughts on what it means to be a social scientist today. Everyone who is curious about the avenues modern societies are taking and how researchers grapple with the changes and challenges we face – intellectually, emotionally, personally – will find this fascinating to listen to. Episode languages shift between German and English. https://leibniz-irs.de/

https://leibniz-irs.de/

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episode 1: Welcome to Nottingham, Malaysia


In the 1990s, universities began branching out internationally, setting up offices or branch campuses in other countries and continents. But what are the reasons and motivations behind this? Has higher education become a global commodity? And how does university internationalization affect students, faculty and places – those involved and those not involved? In this first episode of Scoiety@Space, three geographers talk about their personal experiences researching the globalization of higher education: Sarah Hall from Nottingham University (UK), Francis Collins from Waikato University (New Zealand) and Kris Olds, University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). The conversation reveals that there is a surprising multitude of motivations, strategies and emergent global-local relations. It also shows that there is not just one way, one model of globalization. We need to look at the peripheries, the vast number of ‘normal’ universities rather than a few elite institutions, and at the internationalization at home, the global relatedness you can touch just by crossing the street.

Shownotes

The TRANSEDU Junior Research Group

The Leibniz IRS project page on transnational spaces of higher education

Francis Collins’s profile page

Sarah Hall’s profile page

Kris Olds’s Blog on higher education

@Moving_Futures: Francis Collins on Twitter

@drsarah_hall: Sarah Hall on Twitter

@GlobalHigherEd: Kris Olds on Twitter


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 May 11, 2019  53m