Alice Bobée
Research Associate | 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

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 04/2018 - 03/2023
Constructing Transnational Spaces of Higher Education. International Branch Campus Development at the Interface of Network and Territorial Embeddedness (TRANSEDU)

In the past twenty years, the number of students completing university studies in a foreign country has constantly been on the rise. In addition, many universities are investing in international branch campuses (IBCs) abroad. These are initial indices for a parallel globalisation of knowledge-intensive branches of the economy and of the university landscape. The Leibniz Junior Research Group “Constructing Transnational Spaces of Higher Education” (TRANSEDU) is concerned with the relationship between globalised economic processes and the internationalisation of the academic and research landscapes. more info

Ongoing Qualification Projects

Qualification project 06/2018 - 06/2022
French offshore campuses: discourses, strategies, geographies

The project adopts a cultural economic approach to investigate the discourses that constitute the development of French campuses abroad and the materialization thereof in the space of the campuses, while paying attention to the dissonances and renegotiations involved in the process. Addressed through qualitative expert interviews with decision-makers working in French public and private higher education institutions, the following research question guides the analysis: “How is the development of French branch campuses discursively and materially constructed, branded and experienced?” more info

Selected Publications by Year

2022
Bobée, A., & Kleibert, J. M. (2022). Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 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 (IRS). https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/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., & Kleibert, J. M. (2022). Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education. Globalisation, Societies and Education. 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 (IRS). https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/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

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

    6th Global Conference on Economic Geography

    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

    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

    News
    June/09/2022
    „Choose France!“
    New Paper Analyses the Strategies of French Universities in Africa

    In their newly published article "Choose France! Containment, Circulation and Postcolonial (Dis)Continuities in Transnational Education", Alice Bobée and Jana Kleibert show how French offshore campuses in Francophone Africa on the one hand implement French migration and higher education policies and on the other hand increasingly adapt to economic competitive pressure and the mobility desires of paying students. In doing so, they are imitating "Anglo-Saxon" market-oriented strategies. The article appeared in the journal Globalisation, Societies and Education. more info