Strategic European partnerships for UK universities post-Brexit: navigating a globally contested field of world-class universities
Strategic European partnerships for UK universities post-Brexit: navigating a globally contested field of world-class universities
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10.1007/s11233-023-09123-0
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2023-05-12
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本文评估了英国大学如何通过与欧洲主要机构的全面战略合作伙伴关系，作为其国际化战略的一部分，寻求在脱欧后保持其全球主导地位。根据2017年11月至2018年7月在12所英国大学进行的24次半结构化访谈，我们的目标是研究哪种类型的大学最倾向于形成国际全面的大学范围内的战略合作伙伴关系，以及他们如何确定他们的合作伙伴。这些大学在所有四个国家的英国大学中垂直分化并沿着高度分层的光谱传播。该分析是在布迪厄的“实践经济”理论框架内进行的，该理论认为所有的大学实践都是经济实践，最终都是为了最大化物质或象征利润而量身定制的。在商业和工业中，组织传统上是为了利润最大化而竞争，而大学必须既相互竞争又相互合作，以提高（或保持）它们在该领域的地位。英国大学将需要在脱欧后的空间中导航，并在此过程中需要审查与欧盟和非欧盟大学的国际机构联系。本文将评估英国大学如何通过与主要外国机构的全面战略伙伴关系来寻求保持其在该领域的主导地位。
This paper assesses how UK universities seek to maintain their global dominant position post-Brexit through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key European institutions as part of their internationalisation strategies. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interviews conducted from November 2017 to July 2018 in 12 UK universities vertically differentiated and spread along the highly hierarchised spectrum of British universities in all four nations, we aim to examine which types of universities are most inclined to form international comprehensive university-wide strategic partnerships, and how they identify their partners. The analysis is framed within Bourdieu’s theory of “economy of practices” which considers all university practices as economic practices that are ultimately tailored towards maximising either material or symbolic profit. Unlike in business and industry, where organisations traditionally compete to maximise profit, universities must both compete and collaborate with one another in order to improve (or maintain) their position in the field. UK universities will need to navigate the post-Brexit space they find themselves thrown into, and in the process will need to review international institutional links with both European Union (EU) based and non-EU universities. This paper will assess how UK universities seek to maintain their dominant position in the field through comprehensive strategic partnerships with key foreign institutions.