Professor Roger King

Research Professor
Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI)
Open University (UK) &
Research Associate
Centre for Risk and Regulation (CARR)
London School of Economics and Political Science

Roger King is Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI) at the Open University. He is also Research Associate at the Centre for Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Association of Commonwealth Universities (2003-5), and an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, and also at the University of the Sunshine Coast, in Australia (2001-3). He was Vice Chancellor of the (now) University of Lincoln in the UK (1989-2001) and the founding Chair of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (now the Higher Education Academy) from 1997-2000. He is a member of the Board of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, Series Co-Editor of the Palgrave ‘Universities into the Twenty-First Century’ titles (with Noel Entwistle), and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Regent’s College, London.

As an independent consultant he is currently acting CEO of the UK NARIC for international qualifications equivalence and Chair of the Steering Committee for the Hobsons’ international student enquiry management network. Recently he was a key part of the research team that investigated university league tables for HEFCE.

Currently he is researching and writing Governing Universities Globally for Edward Elgar publishers (publication 2009)

Among recent publications include:
‘Future university business models: the private higher education sector and its regulation’, UniversitiesUK Long-Term Strategy Group, Bristol, May, 2008
The Regulatory State in an Age of Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
‘Governing Universities: Varieties of National Regulation’ in Enders, J. and Jongbloed, B. (2007) Public-Private Dynamics in Higher Education (Transcript, Netherlands)
‘Regulatory Intermediation and Quality Assurance: the case of the auditors’ in Oxford Review of Education, 33, 2, May 2007 (with Griffiths, P. and Williams, R)

‘Governance and Accountability in Higher Education’, Higher Education , 53, April 2007
‘Analysing the Higher Education Regulatory State’, CARR/LSE, 38, November 2006
‘Globalization and Regulation: the case of the Australian National Protocols’, OBHE, Jan 2006
‘The Rise and Regulation of For-Profit Higher Education’ in Mapping Borderless Higher Education (Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, London, 2004)
The University in the Global Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
The State, Democracy and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, with Kendall, G.)