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About Will Brehm

Dr. Will Brehm is an Associate Professor of Education and International Development at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. He is also an Adjunct Researcher at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and an Honorary Adjunct Professor at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia). He supports the World Bank on education-related projects in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Will holds a Ph.D. in comparative education from the University of Hong Kong. He was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral research fellowship at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo and was an Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) for three years. While in Tokyo, Will taught at Waseda’s Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies, the University of Tokyo, Keio University, and Sophia University.

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2018, Decolonization, Higher Education, Michele Schweisfurth

Angela Last
The trouble of internationalization and interdisciplinarity

Many universities worldwide hope to internationalize and push faculty to produce knowledge across disciplines. That’s easier said than done. My guest today, Angela Last, looks at these university fads and finds difficult ethical dilemmas that scholars must overcome. Angela Last is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Leicester. Angela is an interdisciplinary researcher […]

October 15, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Globalization, Higher Education, Privatization

Janja Komljenovic
The power of LinkedIn in higher education

Many listeners probably use LinkedIn. That’s the social media website aimed at connecting employers with employees. My guest today, Janja Komljenovic, researches the ways in which LinkedIn is shaped by and shaping higher education. Janja argues that LinkedIn furthers the employability mandate in universities. Janja Komljenovic is a lecturer of higher education at Lancaster University. […]

October 8, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Children, Development, Gender

Marni Sommer
Education, Gender and sexual health

October 1, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Globalization, Higher Education, Sociology

Oli Mould
Against Creativity

September 24, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Debt, Economics, Higher Education, Human Capital, Privatization

Ben Miller
Defaulting on student loans in America

American students are in debt. Some forty-four million Americans collectively hold over $1.4 trillion worth of debt. Those numbers have increased since the Global Financial Crisis from 10 years ago. Today I speak with Ben Miller, a senior director for Postsecondary Education at the Center for American Progress. Ben specializes in higher-education accountability, affordability, and […]

September 17, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Children, Privatization

Julian Vasquez Heilig
Trump, detained children, and online charter schools

Today we explore the schooling received by children affected by the Trump administration’s immigration policy of family separation. My guest is Julian Vasquez Heilig, a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at California State University Sacramento. Julian writes a blog entitled “Cloaking Inequity”. In a recent post, he reported on a Texas-based detention center […]

September 10, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Higher Education, Human Capital

Noah D. Drezner & Oren Pizmony-Levy
Americans’ Views of Higher Education

What are Americans’ views of higher education? The common story is that people see higher education as an investment in the future of an individual. More education from the best university will result in high salaries in the future. In this story, the public doesn’t appear. It’s all about the private good of higher education. But […]

August 19, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Climate Change, Sociology

Stefan Herbrechter
What is Critical Posthumanist Education?

Humans have been the center of Western philosophy and science for centuries, at least since the European enlightenment. With the rise of artificial intelligence, climate change and challenges to the very idea of subjectivity, are we moving into an era that is perhaps better labeled post-human? But what would posthumanism mean for education? My guest […]

July 16, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Chinese Translations, Comparative Education, Post-Socialism

Alla Korzh & Noah Sobe
Reimagining social science and post-socialist utopias

July 9, 2018 by Will Brehm

2018, Comparative Education, Development, Globalization, Refugees, Sociology

Bruce Collet
Migration, religion, and schooling in democratic states

The images and stories of migrant families being separated by the United States government set off a global conversation about immigration, borders, and justice. If the political philosophy of liberalism is based on liberty and equality, then the events of the past few months have challenged the very core of liberal democratic states. My guest […]

July 2, 2018 by Will Brehm