Professor Gareth Parry BA (Hons), CertEd, PhD, FRSA, FSRHE
Professor of Education
Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education
Visiting Professor, LH Martin Institute, University of Melbourne
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 8101
Fax: (+44) (0)114 279 6236
Email: g.w.parry@Sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 7.08
Research interests
Gareth researches system change and policy reform in higher education, nationally and internationally. He has led major research projects funded by the research councils, government departments and national agencies on aspects of organisation and participation in tertiary education. He was a research consultant to the Dearing inquiry into higher education (1996-97) and the Foster review of further education colleges (2004-05).
His current work is focused on three areas:
• models of mass higher education
• college systems in cross-national perspective
• policy inquiry processes
Teaching
Gareth’s main teaching is research supervision. As a member of the course team for the EdD in Higher Education, his teaching addresses issues in educational theory, method and policy.
Selected recent publications
Parry G (2013) Colleges and the governance of higher education, Higher Education Quarterly, 67 (4).
Parry G, Callender C, Scott P and Temple P (2012) Understanding Higher Education in Further Education Colleges, BIS Research Report 68. London: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, 219 pp.
Parry G (2012) Higher education in further education colleges. A primer, Perspectives, 16 (4), pp 118-122.
Parry G (2011) Mobility and hierarchy in the age of near-universal access, Critical Studies in Education, 52 (2), pp 135-149.
Rashid S, Parry G, Thompson A and Brooks G (2011) Patterns of Further and Higher Education in Colleges and Universities in England: A Statistical Summary and Technical Commentary. Bristol: HEFCE, 89 pp.
Parry G (2010) The dirty work of higher education, London Review of Education, 8 (3), pp 217-227.
Parry G (2010) University adult education and the shift to mass higher education. In B Jones, R Moseley and G Thomas (Eds) (2010) University Continuing Education 1981-2006. Twenty-five turbulent years. Leicester: National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, pp 25-38.
David, M (Ed) (2010) with Bathmaker A-M, Crozier G, Davis P, Ertl H, Fuller A, Haywood G, Heath S, Hockings C, Parry G, Reay D, Vignoles A and Williams J. Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education. Abingdon: Routledge.
Parry G (2009) Further education, higher education and the English experiment, Higher Education Quarterly, 63 (4), pp 322-342.
Parry G (2009) Student demand and institutional diversification: the case of England, Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 15 (2), pp 170-186.
View a full list of Gareth Parry’s publications
Research Students
William Bennett - Presidential leadership in higher education
Rhiannon Birch - Dearing and public accountability
Philip Chan - Funding of undergraduate medical education
Patricia Cremen - Personal development in the social care curriculum
Samantha Drobinski - Key information sets in higher education
Sharon Feeney - Models and methods of quality assurance
Brian Gormley - Student residence, engagement and well-being
Claire Gray - Partnerships between colleges and universities
Jackie Gresham - Roles and identities of professional services staff
Laura Lane - Access, participation and mobility in policy texts
Pauline Madigan - Undergraduate study of public relations
Markita Mulvey - Further education and training as a tertiary sector
Ronan O’Beirne - Knowledge and the library
Ciaran Ohannrachain - Institutional history and saga
Kathleen Rooney - Post-registration nurses in higher education
Aidan Tolland - Institutional patterns in further education