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Dr Brian D. Denman

Lecturer, Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration, Faculty of The Professions, School of Business Economics and Public Policy

Member, Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy (CHEMP), Faculty of The Professions

Qualifications

BA German Language and Literature (Colorado), BA Psychology (Colorado), MA Educational Foundations and Policy Studies (Michigan), PhD Social and Policy Studies in Education (Sydney)

Contact

Email: bdenman@une.edu.au
Room: W39 Room 101, EBL Building
Phone: 02 6773 2269 (or +61 2 6773 2269 overseas)

Dr Brian D. Denman is a lecturer in Public Policy at UNE, President of the Australian New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (2005 to present), and Editor-in-Chief of the International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives (2007 to present).

Affiliations

Areas of Teaching

The following list of units taught provide a grounding of Denman's background:

PDAS 311    Trends, Issues and Community
PDAS 312    Resource Management in the Public Sector
PDAS 313    Fundamentals of Staff Development
PDAS 401    Contemporary Organisation Theory
PDAS 416    Personnel and Quality in Administration
PDAS 430    International Cooperation through Education
PDAS 481   Tertiary Education: Foundations and Organisations
PDED 791    Professional Practice and Ethics

Denman teaches and supervises both undergraduates (BAL Hons) and postgraduates (MAL Hons), (EdD), and (PhD).

Research interests

        *       comparative and international education;
        *       international higher education policy;
        *       globalisation and internationalisation of higher education; and
        *       new fields of inquiry

Consultancy

2006 University of New England International Conference Travel Grant

2005 Consultant for the establishment of an Arab-Christian university based in Israel. Mar Elias Educational Institutions, Ibillin, Israel (7-11 November 2005)

2005 - 2007 University of New England University Research Grant ($7,000). "Investigate Case Study Analysis on Distance Higher Education in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States"

2004 University of New England International Conference Travel Grant

Publications

Denman's latest publications are as follows:

EDITOR
Denman, Brian D., ed. (2007).  International Education Journal:  Comparative Perspectives, Vol 8, No 3 (December 2007).  Adelaide:  Shannon Research Press.

Denman, Brian D., ed. (2007).  35th Annual Conference of ANZCIES, International Co-operation through Education, Auckland, New Zealand (ISBN 0-909347-10-7).

Denman, Brian D., ed. (2006).  34th Annual Conference of ANZCIES, Global Governance, Educational Change, and Cultural Ecology, Canberra, Australia (ISBN 0-909347-10-7).

BOOK CHAPTERS
Denman, Brian D., (2005). "SARS and International Education in China:  Response, Impact, and Repercussion".  In: Zuji-Guoyuan Shinian:  The Way Forward. Bao Ling Yang & Jingru Sun, eds., China People's Public Security University Press, Beijing, pp. 100-114.

REFEREED ARTICLES

Denman, Brian D., and Singye Namgyel (forthcoming). "Convergence of Monastic and Modern Education in Bhutan?". In:  International Review of Education.  Christopher McIntosh, ed.  UNESCO, Paris.
Denman, Brian D., (2007).  "The Emergence of World and Offshore Universities and Other Cross-Border Higher Education". In:  International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, Vol 8, No 3 (December 2007). Adelaide:  Shannon Research Press.

Denman, Brian D., (2006). "The Apples and Oranges Debate:  Comparative Education and Australia". In:  The Australian New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) Conference Proceedings.  Global Governance, Educational Change, and Cultural Ecology, (30 Nov-3 Dec 2006), Canberra, Australia.

Denman, Brian D., Marie Loller, & Rebecca Spence (2006). "Mar Elias, Israeli-Arab Christians, and the Sign of the White Dove". In:  The Australian New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society (ANZCIES) Conference Proceedings.  Global Governance, Educational Change, and Cultural Ecology, (30 Nov-3 Dec 2006), Canberra, Australia.

Denman, Brian D., (2005).  "What is a University in the 21st Century?"  In:  Higher Education Management and Policy, vol 17, no 2.  Michael Shattock, ed. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, pp. 9-28.