Maia Chankseliani

Maia Chankseliani
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

Maia Chankseliani is a Georgian-British educationalist and Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford.[1][2] She is also a Governing Body Fellow at St Edmund Hall.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, Chankseliani earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Philology from Tbilisi State University, a Master of Education in International Education Policy from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Cambridge.[3][4]

Career

Chankseliani has authored four books in comparative and international education: What Happened to the Soviet University? (2022),[5][6][7] Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries (2022), Comparing Post-Socialist Transformations: Purposes, Policies, and Practices in Education (2018),[8] and Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice (2013).[9]

Her research focuses on the tertiary education and development, examining societal, institutional, and policy forces that shape tertiary education and the potential of tertiary education and research for transforming societies. Her research aims to demonstrate how higher education contributes to the sustainable development goals, enhancing human development, knowledge generation, and skill enhancement.[10][11][12] Her research into international student mobility reveals its significance for societal transformations in students' home countries.[13] She currently leads a research project investigating the systemic effects of international mobility on poverty reduction, gender equality, health, education, justice and freedoms.[14]

At Oxford, Chankseliani convenes the Comparative and International Education Research Group and leads a master’s course in Comparative and International Education. She is the founder and convener of Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education.[15]

Chankseliani serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Research,[16] and is on the editorial board of Higher Education.[17]

Awards and recognition

Chankseliani is Chair of the Higher Education SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES),[18] serves on the Executive Committee of UK’s Education and Development Forum (UKFIET),[19][20] and is part of the College of Reviewers at the British Educational Research Association (BERA).[21]

References

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  5. ^ Dowler, Wayne (2023). "What Happened to the Soviet University? By Maia Chankseliani. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv, 193 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Figures. $100.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 82 (4): 1082–1083. doi:10.1017/slr.2024.69. ISSN 0037-6779.
  6. ^ Chanturia, George (June 2023). "What happened to the Soviet university?: Maia Chankseliani. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 208 pp., history of universities Series. ISBN 978-0-19-284984-7 (hbk)". International Review of Education. 69 (3): 433–435. doi:10.1007/s11159-023-10021-1. ISSN 0020-8566.
  7. ^ Sigman, Carole (2023-10-20). "Maia CHANKSELIANI, What Happened to the Soviet Universities?". Cahiers du monde russe. 64 (3–4): 729–732. doi:10.4000/monderusse.14340. ISSN 1252-6576.
  8. ^ Kelly, Peter (2020-03-14). "Comparing post-socialist transformations: purposes, policies and practices in education: edited by Maia Chankseliani and Iveta Silova, Oxford, Symposium Books, 2018, 206 pp, £38 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-910744-03-1". Journal of Education for Teaching. 46 (2): 253–256. doi:10.1080/02607476.2020.1712915. ISSN 0260-7476.
  9. ^ Elisa, Brewis (December 2017). "Meyer, H.-D., St. John, E.P., Chankseliani, M. & Uribe, L. (Eds.). (2013). Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers". Journal of Student Affairs in Africa. 5 (2). doi:10.24085/jsaa.v5i2.2708.
  10. ^ Chankseliani, Maia; McCowan, Tristan (2021-01-01). "Higher education and the Sustainable Development Goals". Higher Education. 81 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1007/s10734-020-00652-w. ISSN 1573-174X. PMC 7646712. PMID 33173242.
  11. ^ Chankseliani, Maia; Qoraboyev, Ikboljon; Gimranova, Dilbar (2021-01-01). "Higher education contributing to local, national, and global development: new empirical and conceptual insights". Higher Education. 81 (1): 109–127. doi:10.1007/s10734-020-00565-8. ISSN 1573-174X.
  12. ^ Chankseliani, Maia; Sopromadze, Natia (2023-01-01). "Listening to locals: Regional spaces in higher education in the global south". International Journal of Educational Research. 122: 102264. doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2023.102264. ISSN 0883-0355.
  13. ^ Chankseliani, Maia (2018-09-01). "The politics of student mobility: Links between outbound student flows and the democratic development of post-Soviet Eurasia". International Journal of Educational Development. 62: 281–288. doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2018.07.006. ISSN 0738-0593.
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