Ruth Keeling
University of Cambridge
Winter 2008
email: rhk23 [@] cam.ac.uk
Ruth Keeling is a
PhD researcher at Pembroke College, Cambridge University,
UK, and a Visiting Student Researcher this semester at
the Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley. Ruth’s
doctoral research explores
the emergence of European-level policy for higher education,
and the European Union’s increasingly active involvement
in higher education and research issues. She is examining
the role of transnational groups and alliances in the intergovernmental
Bologna Process of coordinated higher education reforms.
In
Cambridge, Ruth coordinates the European Education
Policy Network (www.educationpolicy.eu), a research network
affiliated with Cambridge’s Centre of International
Studies, which provides a forum for academics and policymakers
to discuss current and future trends, challenges and priorities
for European education. Until
recently, Ruth was the graduate member on Cambridge University’s
two governing bodies, the University Council (2004-6) and
the General Board (2005-6), as well as the sabbatical President
of the University’s Graduate Union (2004-5). She
is also a member of Cambridge University’s strategic
review committee on graduate education.
Ruth
is spending six months at Berkeley, working with John Douglass
at the Center for Studies in Higher Education on higher
education policy issues affecting US and EU research
universities. They are currently launching a pilot project
on tuition fees and institutional funding issues: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/research/convergence/fees-survey.htm. Ruth’s studies
at Berkeley are kindly supported by a scholarship from
the Anglo-California Foundation.
