Professor Sir David Watson

  • Qualifications and position:
    • MA, PhD
    • Professor of Higher Education Management
  • Faculty:
  • Department:
  • Teaching:

    • Doctoral Supervision
  • Research Projects:
    • • Historical methods applied to HE policy and practice. Click here for further information

      • "The Engaged University." Cross-national study of higher education and civic engagement. Includes analysis of responses to a survey of signatories of the Talloires Declaration. Click here for further details
  • Professional Activities:
    • • President, Society for Research into Higher Education;
      • Trustee, the Nuffield Foundation
      • Advisory Board Member, Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)
      • Member, Council of the School of Pharmacy, University of London
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • • "Students aren't what they used to be – and never were." HEPI conference, Royal Society, 6 May, 2009

      • "Foundations, funding and forgetfulness." Keynote lecture for the University of Cambridge/History of Education Society Conference to mark the 800th anniversary of the University, 7 September.

      • "Lifelong Learning and the future of Higher Education." Keynote speech for North of England Education Conference, Chester, 8 January 2009.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Regular keynote speaker at national and international conferences. International work has included workshops, seminars and conferences for university leaders in the United States, Canada, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, Ireland, Singapore, Australia (where he chaired the government's Expert Panel for the Teaching and Learning Performance Fund, 2006-08) and New Zealand (where he was a member of the international reference group for the Tertiary Education Advisory Commission), as well as for the OECD in Paris and Ottawa. Convenor of international benchmarking seminars for the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), 2004, 2006 and 2008.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • French (advanced), German (basic)
  • Languages Written:
    • French
  • Small Centre Membership:
Professor Sir David Watson

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Publications

  • David Watson (2010) The Question of Morale: managing happiness and unhappiness in university life . McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
  • David Watson with Tom Schuller (2009) Learning Through Life: Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning. NIACE.
  • Edited with Michael Amoah (2007)   The Dearing Report; ten years on. London, Institute of Education.
  •  David Watson (2007) Managing Civic and Community Engagement. McGraw-Hill/Open University Press.
  • David Watson with Elizabeth Maddison (2005) Managing Institutional Self-Study. Bucks: Open University Press.
  • David Watson with Maria Slowey (eds.) (2003) Higher Education and the Lifecourse. SRHE/Open University Press.
  • Ed. with Tom Bourner and Tim Katz   (2000) New Directions in Professional Higher Education. SRHE/Open University Press.
  •  David Watson (2000) Managing Strategy. Bucks:Open University Press.
  • David Watson with Richard Taylor (1998) Lifelong Learning and the University: a post-Dearing agenda. Falmer Press .
  • David Watson with Hazel Bines (1992) Developing Professional Education. SRHE/Open University Press .