French Offshore Campuses: Discourses, Strategies, Geographies
Research department: Economy and Civil Society
IRS Research Topic: Shared Knowledge - Locally and Over Distance
Project Leader within IRS: Alice Bobée
Funding Organization: Leibniz Association
Duration: 06/2018 - 03/2025
The PhD project contributes to critically interrogate how the socio-spatial dynamics of global higher education markets are established, maintained and (de)stabilized. Through the empirical case study of French offshore campuses and a cultural-economic geographical approach, the research investigates: a) what discourses and strategies support the development of French offshore campuses b) what geographies are (re)produced by these strategies and c) for whom are these strategies made? The three publications of the cumulative PhD address the entanglements between the geographies of French offshore campuses, global assymetries, and imaginaries, particularly with regard to the geographies of international student mobilities and the reputational geographies of higher education.
The dissertation project is supervised by Dr. Jana Kleibert at the Geography department at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.