Emma Harden-Wolfson
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Emma Harden-Wolfson

Assistant Professor

McGill University, Montreal

Education and background
Expertise
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Education and background

Dr. Emma Harden-Wolfson McGill University page.

Emma Harden-Wolfson, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University. She is an international and comparative higher education policy specialist with regional specializations in Central Asia, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Her research explores how and why higher education policy changes across contexts and the implications of policy change and reform, with a cross-cutting commitment to increasing equity in higher education.

Over the past two decades, Emma has worked in higher education research, teaching, policy analysis, consultancy, and university administration across four continents. Prior to joining DISE, Emma was Head of Research and Foresight at UNESCO’s International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean where she led research on the right to higher education, digital transformations, artificial intelligence, student mobility, and the futures of higher education.

Before moving to Canada in 2015, Emma was a higher education practitioner, working in a range of progressively senior student-facing and policy-oriented roles at the University of Central Asia, University College London, and the University of Oxford. She is co-author of the book Managing your career in higher education administration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), a Times Higher Education Book of the Year.

Expertise

Areas of expertise:

  • Higher education policy
  • The new geopolitics of higher education
  • Comparative and international higher education
  • Internationalization of higher education
  • International research collaborations
  • Right to higher education
  • Higher education leadership
  • Theories of system and institutional change, policy change / policy processes
  • Qualitative methods
Presentations