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Department of Education

Maia Chankseliani

Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education

College Affiliation: St Edmund Hall

Maia Chankseliani is Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education and pathway leader for MSc in Comparative and International Education. She convenes the Comparative and International Education Research Group in the Department.

Maia’s research on tertiary education – higher education, university-based research, and VET/apprenticeships – focuses on the understanding of the societal, institutional, and policy forces that shape tertiary education and the potential of tertiary education and research for transforming societies. Methodologically, she moves between qualitative and quantitative methods. She often complements secondary data analysis with narratives from semi-structured interviews and contextualised case studies.

Maia brings to her role experience of education research, teaching, policy-making, leadership, and consultancy in different international contexts. She holds BA in Philology from Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Ed. M in International Education Policy from Harvard University (USA), and PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge (UK).

Maia is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Educational Research. She serves on the editorial board of Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. She also serves on the College of Reviewers at British Educational Research Association (BERA) and on the Educational Sciences Panel at the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Funded Research Projects:

  • International Student Mobility and World Development (PI)

    2022-2025

    Funder - the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Education & Cultural Affairs (ECA)

  • The Supranational Space in Higher Education (co-PI)

  • 2020-2023

    Funder - The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

  • University research capacity in former Soviet countries (co-PI)

  • 2019-2021

    Funder - The National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia) internal research grant

  • Comparative study of apprenticeships in Australia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, Germany, India, and South Africa (PI)

  • 2016-2018

    Qatar Foundation Grant

  • Escaping the Exclusion or Sustaining the Privilege? A Complex Reality of Student Mobility from Kazakhstan (PI)

  • 2016

    Newton-Al-Farabi / British Council Grant under the Researcher Links (UK) in collaboration with Nazarbayev University

  • A comparative investigation of student mobility from post-Soviet countries to the EU (PI)

  • 2016

    Fell Fund Grant on (Im)mobility and global citizenship

  • International student mobility from Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia to the UK: the perspectives of the UK HE sector (PI)

  • 2016

    Seed cord grant from the University of Oxford Department of Education

  • Developing and Understanding Vocational Excellence, funded (Research Fellow)

  • 2012-2015

    The National Apprenticeship Service (BIS) grant

  • External evaluation of the European Training Foundation (ETF) project on vocational education & training in Georgia, The Public Policy and Management Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania (PI)

  • 2011

    European Commission DG of Education & Culture

Doctoral Applications

Maia Chankseliani welcomes doctoral applications in the fields of comparative and international education and higher education.

Publications:

  • Books

  • Book chapters

    • Malinovskiy, S., & Chankseliani, M. (2018). International Student Recruitment in Russia: Heavy-handed Approach and Soft-Power Comeback. In A. Oleksiyenko, Q. Zha, I. Chirikov, & J. Li (Eds.), International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: The Soviet Legacy in China and Russia. CERC-Springer. http://cerc.edu.hku.hk/product/international-status-anxiety-and-higher-education-the-soviet-legacy-in-china-russia/

    • Chankseliani, M., & Silova, I. (2018). Reconfiguring education purposes, policies and practices during post-socialist transformations: setting the stage. In M. Chankseliani & S. Silova, I (Eds.), Comparing Post-Socialist Transformations: purposes, policies, and practices in education (pp. 7-26). Symposium Books. https://doi.org/10.15730/books.104
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    • Chankseliani, M. (2015). Rural disadvantage in Georgian Higher Education Admissions: A Mixed-method Study. In A. Mountford-Zimdars, D. Sabbagh, & D. Post (Eds.), Fair Access to Higher Education: Global Perspectives. University of Chicago Press. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4aea0c65-2e65-4291-8dad-6fe7d1dfce7e
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    • Chankseliani, M. (2014). Georgia: Marketization and education post-1991. In N. Ivanenko (Ed.), Education in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (pp. 277-302). Bloomsbury Academic. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:430abed8-90d5-46a9-b9f0-0a02e1bc3d5d
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    • Meyer, H.-D., John, E., Chankseliani, M., & Uribe, L. (2013). The crisis of higher education access: a crisis of justice. In H.-D. Meyer, E. John, M. Chankseliani, & L. Uribe (Eds.), Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice (pp. 1-11). SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-230-3_1
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    • Chankseliani, M. (2013). Higher education access in post-soviet Georgia overcoming a legacy of corruption. In Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice (pp. 171-187). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-230-3_10
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-230-3_10

  • Journal articles

  • Reports

    • Chankseliani, M., Keep, E., & Wilde, S. (2017). People and policy: A comparative study of apprenticeship across eight national contexts. In People and policy: A comparative study of apprenticeship across eight national contexts (pp. 1-116). Wise Qatar Foundation. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:56a3d0c9-3221-43d9-9da4-e1883e5a7a00
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    • Chankseliani, M., & Hessel, G. (2016). Case studies of the most popular European destinations for mobile students from Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia. In Centre for Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford. Centre for Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17820.90243
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    • Chankseliani, M., & Hessel, G. (2016). International student mobility from Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia to the UK: trends, institutional rationales and strategies for student recruitment. In International student mobility from Russia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia to the UK: trends, institutional rationales and strategies for student recruitment. Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fdbb4023-16fe-4542-9b2b-1b47993acf68
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    • Chankseliani, M., James Relly, S., & Mayhew, K. (2015). WorldSkills competitors and entrepreneurship. SKOPE. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:920f310f-39cf-4243-af1e-0f26ec4d895c
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    • Chankseliani, M., Mayhew, K., & James, S. (2015). Benefits of developing vocational excellence: a report to the National Apprenticeship Service of Project 3 (phase II) of the DUVE suite of projects. In Benefits of Developing Vocational Excellence. A Report to the NationalApprenticeship Service of Project 3 (Phase II) of the DUVE suite of projects (pp. 1-67). Skills Funding Agency. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14b74129-ea3a-4c37-97de-371c16905a16
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    • James, S., Mayhew, K., Chankseliani, M., & Laczik, A. (2013). Benefits of developing vocational excellence: a report to the National Apprenticeship Service. Oxford: SKOPE. In Benefits of Developing Vocational Excellence A Report to the National Apprenticeship Service of Project 3 of the DUVE suite of projects. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c9fbb733-8201-468a-92db-9d43ae122843
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    • Chankseliani, M., & Gugushvili, A. (2011). External evaluation of the European Training Foundation (ETF) project on vocational education & training in Georgia. http://apps.eui.eu/Personal/Researchers/AlexiGugushvili/GeorgiaETFReport.pdf

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