Alice Bobée
Associated Researcher | Economy and Civil Society
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Since June 2018 Alice Bobée has been working in the research project “Constructing Transnational Spaces of Higher Education. International Branch Campus development at the Interface of Network and Territorial Embeddedness (TRANSEDU)“ within the research department „Economy and Civil Society“.

She obtained a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with a focus on Cultural Studies from the University College of Maastricht. It was followed by a Master of Arts in “Sociology – European Societies” at the Freie Universität of Berlin, in which she specialized on elite sociology, symbolic boundaries and distinction practices. In her Master thesis she explored the collective identity construction of students of a School of Governance in Berlin. Next to her studies she worked as a student assistant for projects tackling the future of mobility (Institut Futur), Islamist radicalization in France as well as African-European research partnerships (Berlin Social Science Center).

Projects

Completed Third-party Funded Projects

Constructing Transnational Spaces of Higher Education. International Branch Campus Development at the Interface of Network and Territorial Embeddedness (TRANSEDU)

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Completed Qualification Projects

French Offshore Campuses: Discourses, Strategies, Geographies

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Selected Publications by Year

2025
Bobée, A. (2025). Capitalizing on European Capital Cities: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13322
Bobée, A. (2025). Domestic Campus Expansion in France as a Practice of Regional Dissociation: Advancing Reflections on the Socio-spatial Fragmentation of Higher Education ‘at Home’. Geoforum, 159, [104189]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104189
2023
Kleibert, J. M., Schulze, M., Rottleb, T., & Bobée, A. (2023). (Trans-)Regional Embeddedness and the Resilience of Offshore Campuses. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 10(1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2022.2157323
Bobée, A., & Kleibert, J. M. (2023). Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21(4), 575-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2075329
2021
Kleibert, J. M., Rottleb, T., Schulze, M., & Bobée, A. (2021, Jun 10). Strategy First: Ten Questions to Answer before Starting an International Campus. Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IRS_Dialog_Transferpublikationen/IRS_Dialog_Policy_Paper_2-2021.pdf
Kleibert, J. M., Bobée, A., Rottleb, T., & Schulze, M. (2021). Transnational Education Zones: Towards an Urban Political Economy of ‘Education Cities’. Urban Studies, 58(14), 2845-2862. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020962418
2020
Kleibert, J. M., Bobée, A., Rottleb, T., & Schulze, M. (2020). Global Geographies of Offshore Campuses. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223315
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223315

    • Selected Publications by Type

    Journal Article
    Bobée, A. (2025). Capitalizing on European Capital Cities: French Business Schools’ Offshore Campus Investment Strategies in London, Berlin and Barcelona. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13322
    Bobée, A. (2025). Domestic Campus Expansion in France as a Practice of Regional Dissociation: Advancing Reflections on the Socio-spatial Fragmentation of Higher Education ‘at Home’. Geoforum, 159, [104189]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104189
    Kleibert, J. M., Schulze, M., Rottleb, T., & Bobée, A. (2023). (Trans-)Regional Embeddedness and the Resilience of Offshore Campuses. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 10(1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2022.2157323
    Bobée, A., & Kleibert, J. M. (2023). Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21(4), 575-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2075329
    Kleibert, J. M., Bobée, A., Rottleb, T., & Schulze, M. (2021). Transnational Education Zones: Towards an Urban Political Economy of ‘Education Cities’. Urban Studies, 58(14), 2845-2862. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020962418
    Expertise / Position Paper / Policy Paper
    Kleibert, J. M., Rottleb, T., Schulze, M., & Bobée, A. (2021, Jun 10). Strategy First: Ten Questions to Answer before Starting an International Campus. Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space. https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/IRS_Dialog_Transferpublikationen/IRS_Dialog_Policy_Paper_2-2021.pdf
    Working Paper, Discussion Paper
    Kleibert, J. M., Bobée, A., Rottleb, T., & Schulze, M. (2020). Global Geographies of Offshore Campuses. Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung. http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223315
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/223315

    • Talks

    2023
    Cities in the Making of Competitive Universities: Barcelona, Berlin and Dublin as destinations for French business schools

    Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023

    September/20/2023
    Goethe-Universität , Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    'Just to make clear that our identity was not French anymore’: rescaling, blurring and borrowing origins through transnational higher education

    RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2023

    August/29/2023
    Royal Geographical Society & Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

    2022
    Capitalizing on European Capital Cities. Thinking Through the Geographical Expansion & Reputational Geographies of French Business Schools

    6th Global Conference on Economic Geography 2022

    June/08/2022
    Trinity College und University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    2021
    Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education

    RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021

    August/31/2021
    virtuell, London, United Kingdom

    Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education

    AAG Annual Meeting 2021

    April/11/2021
    Seattle, Seattle, United States

    2019
    "We thought that coming with a French image would be very attractive". An analysis of spatial imaginaries in the context of French offshore campus development.

    Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019

    November/26/2019
    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    French Offshore Campus Development: Discourses, Branding, Experiences

    Gemeinsames Kolloquium IRS-Humboldt Universität Wirtschaftsgeographie

    February/19/2019
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut, Berlin, Germany

    French Offshore Campuses Development: Discourses, Branding, Experiences

    International Workshop “Constructing Transnational Spaces of Higher Education”

    January/11/2019
    Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung, Erkner, Germany

    2018
    Spatializing globalization: The offshoring of French International Branch campuses between strategies and lived reality

    Monthly colloquium of the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)

    November/14/2018
    Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany