Maia Chankseliani
@mchankseliani.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative & International Education at Oxford
https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/maia-chankseliani/
https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/maia-chankseliani/
The UK has confirmed it will rejoin Erasmus. This matters enormously because Erasmus lets students experience other societies from the inside, shaping judgement and civic understanding in ways no domestic scheme can. Rejoining it restores openness at the heart of higher education
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The UK has confirmed it will rejoin Erasmus. This matters enormously because Erasmus lets students experience other societies from the inside, shaping judgement and civic understanding in ways no domestic scheme can. Rejoining it restores openness at the heart of higher education
Our new paper shows how the European Universities Initiative choreographs collaboration. A competitive call pushed alliances into both waltz-like orderly moves and mosh pit collisions as partnerships were formed and reconfigured.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Our new paper shows how the European Universities Initiative choreographs collaboration. A competitive call pushed alliances into both waltz-like orderly moves and mosh pit collisions as partnerships were formed and reconfigured.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
#EuropeanUniversitiesInitiative
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#EuropeanUniversitiesInitiative
Our new article examines how international study shapes democratic consciousness among returnees in autocracies and anocracies, and how that consciousness is put into practice through five pathways of engagement. Open access.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our new article examines how international study shapes democratic consciousness among returnees in autocracies and anocracies, and how that consciousness is put into practice through five pathways of engagement. Open access.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My piece on Centralising Power: Georgia’s Troubling University Reform
published in CHELPS e-journal Universities & Intellectuals
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published in CHELPS e-journal Universities & Intellectuals
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Centralising Power: Georgia’s Troubling University Reform | Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies
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November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
My piece on Centralising Power: Georgia’s Troubling University Reform
published in CHELPS e-journal Universities & Intellectuals
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
published in CHELPS e-journal Universities & Intellectuals
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
Some reflections on the UK government’s new Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Some reflections on the UK government’s new Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper
Reposted by Maia Chankseliani
Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme
All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf!
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All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf!
www.ukfiet.org/2025/plannin...
Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme
If you are joining us for the UKFIET September 2025 conference, these highlights will be useful for deciding what sessions to take part in.
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September 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Planning your UKFIET 2025 conference: A walk through the programme
All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf!
www.ukfiet.org/2025/plannin...
All you need to know to plan your sessions & networking for next week's #UKFIETConf!
www.ukfiet.org/2025/plannin...
I'll be joining a panel with fellow Harvard alumni next week to discuss academic freedom. I'll speak about how international study, when it takes place in a context of academic freedom, can influence civic responsibility and institutional change. Register: www.harvardaed.org/calendar
August 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I'll be joining a panel with fellow Harvard alumni next week to discuss academic freedom. I'll speak about how international study, when it takes place in a context of academic freedom, can influence civic responsibility and institutional change. Register: www.harvardaed.org/calendar
Reposted by Maia Chankseliani
Intercultural competence beyond international student mobility: insights from a global study
Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social
Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028...
#InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning
Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social
Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028...
#InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning
August 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Intercultural competence beyond international student mobility: insights from a global study
Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social
Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028...
#InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning
Natalya Hanley & @mchankseliani.bsky.social
Open access → doi.org/10.1177/1028...
#InterculturalCompetence #StudyAbroad #InternationalStudents #StudentMobility #Transnationalism #TransformativeLearning
My work on international student mobility & global knowledge featured in Chinese Social Sciences Today (中国社会科学报). I argue that international students shape knowledge and civic life, & that today’s restrictions risk narrowing our shared horizons
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August 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My work on international student mobility & global knowledge featured in Chinese Social Sciences Today (中国社会科学报). I argue that international students shape knowledge and civic life, & that today’s restrictions risk narrowing our shared horizons
www.cssn.cn/skgz/bwyc/20...
www.cssn.cn/skgz/bwyc/20...
How does international education shape poverty reduction? Returnees adapt, translate, and embed reform through four mechanisms, far beyond skill transfer. Based on interviews in 57 countries, building on our earlier quant study in IJER. Links in comments.
July 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
How does international education shape poverty reduction? Returnees adapt, translate, and embed reform through four mechanisms, far beyond skill transfer. Based on interviews in 57 countries, building on our earlier quant study in IJER. Links in comments.
Reposted by Maia Chankseliani
“Let’s put the worst people in the world in charge and see what happens.”
“I love that video game concept!”
“Game?”
“I love that video game concept!”
“Game?”
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Let’s put the worst people in the world in charge and see what happens.”
“I love that video game concept!”
“Game?”
“I love that video game concept!”
“Game?”
My opinion piece that will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Nature.
It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
My opinion piece that will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Nature.
It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
It is about what we lose when international students are treated as risks rather than as contributors - when border controls override civic imagination
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh
List of eligible countries in the screenshot
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List of eligible countries in the screenshot
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June 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh
List of eligible countries in the screenshot
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List of eligible countries in the screenshot
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A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shifts—and what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies
A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shifts—and what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies
4th Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
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Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
May 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Join us today
A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shifts—and what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies
A timely and wide-ranging Oxford-Georgia Forum: political turmoil, civic resistance, foreign policy shifts—and what all this means for the future of Georgian Studies abroad. Grateful to be part of the conversation. 🇬🇪🇬🇧 @osgaoxford.bsky.social #GeorgianStudies
Some thoughts on the UK-EU youth mobility scheme that’s being discussed early next week
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NEW BLOG: Ahead of UK-EU talks on a youth mobility deal, Dr Maia Chankseliani reflects on the impact of cross-border work & study on lives and societies, based on a global study of 704 participants across 70 countries 🌍
Read the @ukfiet.bsky.social blog: www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
Read the @ukfiet.bsky.social blog: www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
Learning, working, connecting: Why a new UK–EU youth mobility scheme matters
Youth mobility, once taken for granted between Britain and Europe, is now the subject of cautious negotiation. On 19 May 2025, London and Brussels are set to convene a summit to discuss a youth…
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May 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Some thoughts on the UK-EU youth mobility scheme that’s being discussed early next week
#youthmobility
#youthmobility
📢 New report is public!
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
May 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
4th Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
May 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
4th Annual Oxford-Georgia Forum
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
Theme: Quo Vadis, Georgia?
Date: 28 May 2025
9:30–18:45
Venue: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Agenda here: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/971...
📢 New report is public!
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
📢 New report is public!
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
What happens when people cross borders to learn & then return home to contribute?
Based on 704 interviews in 70 countries + quant data from 134, our report explores how mobility supports change across economy & society ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
As the UK and EU prepare to discuss a new youth mobility agreement on 19 May, I reflect on what mobility makes possible, not only for individuals, but for societies.
This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts
www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts
www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
Learning, working, connecting: Why a new UK–EU youth mobility scheme matters
Youth mobility, once taken for granted between Britain and Europe, is now the subject of cautious negotiation. On 19 May 2025, London and Brussels are set to convene a summit to discuss a youth…
www.ukfiet.org
May 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
As the UK and EU prepare to discuss a new youth mobility agreement on 19 May, I reflect on what mobility makes possible, not only for individuals, but for societies.
This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts
www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
This blog draws on our global study at Oxford and brings in vivid individual accounts
www.ukfiet.org/2025/learnin...
Does Citizenship Matter in the Republic of Science?
With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyi’s idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science
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With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyi’s idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Does Citizenship Matter in the Republic of Science?
With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyi’s idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
With colleagues from across Asia, Europe, and North America, we revisit Polanyi’s idea through contemporary lenses - academic freedom, governance, inequality, and the societal role of science
chelps.eduhk.hk/page/detail/...
Joonghyun Kwak and I will be giving a virtual talk about the links between international student mobility and poverty reduction today at 9am UK time at HKU.
Do join if you have a chance:
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Do join if you have a chance:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Beyond Borders: How International Student Mobility Drives Poverty Reduction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Beyond Borders: How International Student Mobility Drives Poverty Reduction. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meet...
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April 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Joonghyun Kwak and I will be giving a virtual talk about the links between international student mobility and poverty reduction today at 9am UK time at HKU.
Do join if you have a chance:
hku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Do join if you have a chance:
hku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development
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Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development | ETF
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April 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development
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Reposted by Maia Chankseliani
Harvard stands up
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
April 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Harvard stands up
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber
Letter to the Harvard community from President Garber