Professor Lynn Meek
Professor, School of Business, Economics and Public Policy
Qualifications
BA (Hons) (Drew), PhD (Camb)
Contact
| Email: | vmeek@une.edu.au |
| Room: | PDaL Building (N14-19) |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2042 (or +61 2 6773 2042 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3363 |
Lynn Meek has recently taken up the position of Foundation Director of the L.H. Martin Institute at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this, Professor Meek was Director of the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy (CHEMP) within the School of Business, Economics and Public Policy. Trained in sociology of higher education at University of Cambridge, specific research interests include governance and management, research management, diversification of higher education institutions and systems, institutional amalgamations, organizational change, and comparative study of higher education systems. Professor Meek has published 27 books and monographs and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He is on the editorial board of several international journals and book series. He is a member of the UNESCO Scientific Committee for Asia and the Pacific.
Research interests
Sociology/anthropology of higher education; governance, funding, management and diversity of higher education; complex organisations; social theory and method.
Selected Publications
For a complete listing of Prof Meek's publications follow this link.
Books and Chapters
Salazar-Clemeña, R. M. and Meek, V.L. (Eds.) 2008, Competition, Collaboration and Change in the Academic Profession: Shaping higher education's contribution to knowledge and research. Libro Amigo Publishers for UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, Philippines.
Meek, V.L. 2008, 'Competition and cooperation in Australian higher education research', in Salazar-Clemeña, R. M. and Meek, V.L. (Eds.), Competition, Collaboration and Change in the Academic Profession: Shaping higher education's contribution to knowledge and research. Libro Amigo Publishers for UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, Philippines, pp. 61-79.
Harman, G. and Meek, V.L. 2007, 'Australia: Adjustment to the New Management and Entrepreneurial Environment', in W. Locke and U. Teichler (eds.) The Changing Conditions for Academic Work and Careers in Select Countries, INCHER-Kassel, pp.127-146.
Meek, V.L. and Goedegebuure, L. 2007, ‘The Devil’s in the Detail; Guy Neave and Comparative Higher Education’, in J. Enders and F. van Vught (eds.) Towards a cartography of higher education policy change - A Festschrift in honour of Guy Neave’, CHEPS, The Netherlands, pp. 281-292.
Meek, V.L. 2007, ‘Succession Planning and Australian Higher Education’, in N. Dempster (ed) The Treasure Within - Leadership and Succession Planning, Australian College of Educators, Deakin West, pp. 111-125.
Meek,V.L. 2007, ‘Internationalisation of Higher Education and the Australian Academic Profession’, in M. Kogan and U. Teichler (eds) Key Challenges to the Academic Profession, UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge, Paris and Kassel, INCHER-Kassel, pp. 65-80.
Huisman, J., Meek, V. L. and Wood, F. 2007, 'Institutional diversity in higher education: a cross-national and longitudinal analysis', Higher Education Quarterly, vol. 66, no. no. 4, pp. 563-577.
Carrington, R., Meek, V.L. and Wood, F.Q. 2007, ‘The role of further government intervention in Australian international education’, Higher Education, vol. 53, pp. 561-577.