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Overview

Susan L. Robertson is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research work primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on political science, international relations, education, sociology, information systems, and communication.

The main research topics addressed by Robertson include:

  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Digital Education and Society

Robertson has a significant publication record in several academic venues, including:

  • Globalisation Societies and Education
  • Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Global Society
  • Comparative Education
  • Comparative Education Review

Notable recent papers by Robertson include:

  • "Provincializing the OECD-PISA global competences project" (2021) published in Globalisation Societies and Education
  • "Guardians of the Future: International Organisations, Anticipatory Governance and Education" (2022) published in Global Society

Additionally, Robertson has contributed as a co-author on works such as "Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19" (2020) in Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Frequent collaborators in Robertson's research include:

  • Roger Dale
  • Michele Martini
  • Michael A. Peters
  • Lynda Stone
  • Tina Besley

Robertson's scholarship also includes books published with Edward Elgar Publishing, such as Building the Post-Pandemic University (2023).

Best Publications

  • GATS and the education service industry: The politics of scale and global reterritorialization

    Susan L. Robertson;Xavier Bonal;Roger Dale

  • Re‐imagining and rescripting the future of education: global knowledge economy discourses and the challenge to education systems

    Susan L. Robertson

  • The Varying Effects of Regional Organizations as Subjects of Globalization of Education

    Roger Dale;Susan L. Robertson

  • Globalisation and Europeanisation in Education

    Roger Dale;Susan Robertson

  • Placing Teachers in Global Governance Agendas

    Susan L. Robertson

  • Towards a ‘critical cultural political economy’ account of the globalising of education

    Susan L. Robertson;Roger Dale

  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An EPAT Collective Project

    Michael A. Peters;Fazal Rizvi;Gary Mcculloch;Paul Gibbs

  • Teachers’ Work, Restructuring and Postfordism: Constructing the New ‘Professionalism’

    Susan L. Robertson

  • Teachers’ Work, Restructuring and Post-Fordism: Constructing the New Professionalism

    SL Robertson

  • Globalisation, Education and Development: Ideas, Actors and Dynamics

    Susan Robertson;Mario Novelli;Roger Dale;Leon Tikly

  • Public Private Partnerships in Education: New Actors and Modes of Governance in a Globalizing World

    Susan L. Robertson

  • “Remaking the World” Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Education and Teachers’ Labor

    Susan L. Robertson

  • Public Private Partnerships in Education

    Susan Robertson;Karen Mundy;Antoni Verger;Francine Menashy

  • Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos

    Roger Dalea;Susan Robertson

  • Beyond Methodological 'Isms' in Comparative Education in an Era of Globalisation

    Roger Dale;Susan Robertson

  • Governing Education Through Public Private Partnerships

    Susan L. Robertson;Antoni Verger

  • The EU, Regulatory State Regionalism and New Modes of Higher Education Governance

    Susan L. Robertson

  • A origem das parcerias público-privada na governança global da educação

    Susan Robertson;Anthoni Verger

  • Local States of Emergency: The contradictions of neo-liberal governance in education in New Zealand

    Susan Robertson;Roger Dale

  • The global auction: the broken promises of education, jobs and incomes

    Susan L. Robertson;Lois Weis;Fazal Rizvi

  • Book review: Review symposium: Education plc. Understanding private sector participation in public sector education

    AM Bathmaker;SL Robertson;Roger Slee

Frequent Co-Authors

Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Michael W. Apple
Michael W. Apple University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mary Kalantzis
Mary Kalantzis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald Barnett
Ronald Barnett University College London
Bill Cope
Bill Cope University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas C. Burbules
Nicholas C. Burbules University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gert Biesta
Gert Biesta National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Peter McLaren
Peter McLaren Chapman University

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