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Professor Anthony Welch

Professor of Education

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Phone: +61 2 9351 3175

Fax: +61 2 9351 4580

Building.Room: A35.542

Research interests

Educational history, sociology and philosophy

  • Sociology of education

Educational systems: administration, management and leadership

  • Higher education

Social structures, inequalities and social justice

  • Social change

Professional biography

Tony specialises in national and international educational policy and practice, and cross-cultural analysis and research. He has extensive experience in many countries, including those in the Asia Pacific, and has published widely, contributing numerous analyses of issues such as cross-cultural interaction; comparative research methods in education; and  practical reform affecting multiculturalism, indigenous minorities, international students, higher education and changes to the academic profession.

Tony's career has included Visiting Professor appointments to universities in the US and UK, France, Japan, China and Germany. He has written and edited numerous books, some of which have been translated into several languages.

Hiis extensive international contacts, including with organisations such as the OECD, UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank, ADB, CEDEFOP (Europe), BIBB (Germany), IREDU (France) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has allowed Tony to contibute to major projects and reforms in various parts of the world. He has consulted to governments in Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Europe and to foundations in the USA.

Among other projects, Tony was part of an international team engaged on a major 14-nation study of the academic profession (published in 1996 as The Academic Profession. Portraits from Fourteen Countries).

Tony was recently selected as a Fulbright New Century Scholar for 2007–8. He is currently completing major studies of internationalisation and globalisation of higher education, as well as books on SE Asian higher education, asoects of Chinese higher education, and China's relations with SE Asia.


Professional and community roles


Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
Analysis of the scope, influence and significance of the Ethiopian Knowledge Diaspora in North America, on the development of higher education in Ethiopi. PhD Rose Amazan
Effecting Jewish pluralism in Jewish Community Schools. PhD Bryan Conyer
A comparative analysis of continuing education programmes in Hong Kong, Australia and the USA. PhD Josephine Fleming
A comparative examination of indigenous education among Ainu people of Japan and Aboriginal people of Australia, especially regarding transition to higher education. PhD Takayuki Shimomura
The Chinese knowledge diaspora in the development of Chinese research universities. PhD Hongxing Cai
Career development of highly-skilled graduate returnees in China: A case study of graduates from the University of Sydney. MPhil Jessica Hao
Effecting Jewish pluralism in Jewish Community Schools. PhD Bryan Conyer
The Chinese knowledge disapora and the international knowledge network: A comparative mixed medthods study in Australian and Canadian universities. PhD Zhen Zhang

Selected publications

Books

Book chapters

  • Welch, A. (2008). Private schooling and class privilege: Private wealth and public squalour?. In Ann Crabb (Ed.), Sociology in Today's World (pp. 250–274), South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia.
  • Welch, A. (2008). Myths and Modes of Mobility: the Changing Face of Academic Mobility in the Global Era. In Byram M, Dervin F. (Ed.), Students, Staff and Academic Mobility in Higher Education (Vol. 1, pp. 292–311), Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Welch, A, Helme, S, Lamb, S. (2007). Rurality and inequality in education: the Australian experience. In Teese R, Lamb S, Duru-Bellat M (Ed.), International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy. Inequality in Education Systems (Vol. 2, pp. 271–293), Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Ekpaideuthesis stin Australia: Prakliseis kai Allages (Australian education: Challenge and change). In Mattheou, D. (Ed.), Syngritiki Spouthi Tis Ekpaideusis (The Comparative Study of Education) (Vol. 1, pp. 589–672), Athens: Atrapos Publishers.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Cultural Difference and Identity. In Raewyn Connell ... [et al.]. (Ed.), Education, Change & Society (pp. 155–187), Melbourne, AUS: Oxford University Press.
  • Welch, A. (2007). The City and the bush. In R Connell;C Campbell;M Vickers;A Welch;D Foley;N Bagnall (Ed.), Education, Change and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 70–93), Not known: UNSW Press.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Guro-baruka no Kiki to Daigaku no Kokusaika: Osutoraria ni mirareru Koutou Kyouiku no Genzai. In Morimoto Toyotomi;Don Nakanishi (Ed.), Ekkyou suru Tami to Kyouiku. Ikkyou ni Sodachi Chikyu de Manabu?? (pp. 257–286), Kyoto Japan: Academia Shuppankai.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Making Education Policy. In R Connell;C Campbell;M Vickers;A Welch;D Foley;N Bagnall (Ed.), Education, Change and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 1–33), Not known: UNSW Press.
  • Welch, A. (2006). Konkurrenzkultur? Internationalisierung des australischen Hochschulsystem in der Ara der Globalisierung. In E Fuchs (Ed.), Bildgung International. Historische Perspektiven und aktuelle Entwicklungen (Vol. 1, pp. 305–329), Wurzberg, Germany: Ergon.
  • Welch, A. (2005). From peregrination academica to global academic: The internationalisation of the profession. In A. Welch (Ed.), The Professoriate. Profile of a Profession (pp. 71–96), Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Welch, A. (2005). Preface. In A. Welch (Ed.), The Professoriate. Profile of a Profession (pp. vii–ix), Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Welch, A. (2005). Challenge and change: The academic profession in uncertain times. In A. Welch (Ed.), The Professoriate. Profile of a Profession (pp. 1–19), Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Welch, A. (2005). Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?. In A. Welch (Ed.), The Professoriate. Profile of a Profession (pp. 205–208), Dordrecht: Springer.
  • Welch, A. (2005). Higher education for a New Korea. Internationalized or Globalized?. In K.-H. Mok and R. James (Eds.), Globalisation and Higher Education in East Asia (pp. 99–136), Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic.

Journal articles

  • Welch, A. (2008). DELETE THIS ENTRY Foreign direct investment in the South East Asian Knowledge Economy: the role of offshore campuses in Malaysia and Viet Nam' Education. Education, Knowledge & Economy.
  • Amirrachman, A, Syafi'I, S, Welch, A. (2008). Decentralisation in Indonesian Education: the Promise and the Price. World Studies In Education, 9(1), 31–53.
  • Welch, A, Zhang, Z. (2008). Higher Education and Global Talent Flows: Brain Drain, Overseas Chinese Intellectuals, and Diasporic Knowledge Networks. Higher Education Policy, 21(4), 519–537.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Governance issues in South East Asian higher education: Finance, devolution and transparency in the global era. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 27(3), 237–253.
  • Welch, A. (2007). The minnow and the whale: Singapore-China relations in higher education. International Higher Education, 46, 22–24.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Building bridges in higher education. Singapore-China relations in the GATS era. Journal of University Studies, 35, 161–171.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Blurred Vision?: Public and Private Higher Education in Indonesia. Higher Education, 54(5), 665–687.
  • Welch, A. (2007). Ho Chi Minh Meets the Market: Public and Private Higher Education in Viet Nam. International Education Journal, 8(3), 35–56.
  • Welch, A, Zhen, Z. (2005). The Chinese Knowledge Diaspora: Communication networks among overseas Chinese intellectuals in the globalisation era. Bijiao Jiaoyu Yanjiu, 26(12), 31–37.
  • Welch, A. (2005). Accountability or accountancy? Governance and university evaluation systems in an era of performativity. Comparative and International Education Review, 5, 116–144.
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