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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 at the University of Oxford where she leads a flagship master’s course in Comparative and International Education. She convenes the Comparative and International Education Research Group at the Department of Education.

Within comparative and international education, Maia Chankseliani works at the intersection of tertiary education and development. She researches societal, institutional, and policy forces that shape tertiary education and the potential of tertiary education and research for transforming societies.

Methodologically, she utilises both qualitative and quantitative methods. Her work often combines secondary data analysis with insights gathered through semi-structured interviews and contextualised case studies.

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

She currently leads a major research project examining the impact of international mobility on world development (funded by the U.S. Department of State). Maia Chankseliani has worked on a number of externally funded research projects and consultancies involving the UK Government agencies responsible for education and skills, UKRI/ESRC, British Council, World Bank, Qatar Foundation, the European Commission.

With a background in education research, teaching, policy-making, leadership, and consultancy, Maia Chankseliani brings to her role extensive experience in diverse international settings. This breadth of experience informs her research and enables her to bridge theory and practice.

Maia Chankseliani engages with governments and gives academic and policy-relevant talks nationally and internationally. Her research regularly features in national and international media.

She holds a BA in Philology from Tbilisi State University (Georgia), an Ed. M in International Education Policy from Harvard University (USA), and a PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge (UK).

Maia Chankseliani serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Research.

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)

  • Improving Higher Education Participation in Georgia: Introducing Needs-Based Funding

    • 2022-2023

    Funder - Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN), University of Oxford

  • 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

    • Chankseliani, M., Fedyukin, I., & Frumin, I. (2022). Introduction. In Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries (pp. 1-14). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_1
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_1

    • Chankseliani, M., Fedyukin, I., & Frumin, I. (2022). Introduction. In Building Research Capacity at Universities (pp. 1-14). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_1
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_1

    • Chankseliani, M., Fedyukin, I., & Frumin, I. (2022). Building Research Capacity at Universities: Imagining, Strategising, and Ordering. In Building Research Capacity at Universities: Insights from Post-Soviet Countries (pp. 305-327). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_16
      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12141-8_16

    • 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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    • 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

    • 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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  • Journal articles

  • Reports

    • Kwak, J., & Chankseliani, M. (2023). Quantitative analysis international mobility and world development: estimating the system-level impact of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and international exchanges. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:104e8142-4d59-4087-8383-90c8b7d2ff0c
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    • 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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