Assoc Professor Christopher Ziguras

Position

Associate Prof, International Studies

School / Work Unit

Global Studies, Social Science &Planning

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 2501

christopher.ziguras@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 37
Level: 5
Room: 16

City Campus

Portfolio

Design & Social Context

"Chris Ziguras"

Key activities

Christopher Ziguras is Associate Professor of International Studies in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning. His research focuses on international education policy, particularly related to higher education in the Asia Pacific region.

Dr Ziguras teaches within the Global Studies discipline at RMIT University. He was a founding member of the Globalism Research Centre and has continued to be closely involved with the Centre since its establishment in 2002. He manages the Learning Cities program within RMIT’s Global Cities Research Institute, and established RMIT’s Research in International and Comparative Education (RICE) network in 2007.

Since joining RMIT in 2001 Dr Ziguras has held a range of leadership roles, both in the School of International and Community Studies (Acting Head, 2004-05; Research Coordinator, 2003-06) and the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning (Director of Research 2007-08; Research Higher Degrees Coordinator, 2007). Before joining RMIT Dr Ziguras was a Research Fellow at the Monash Centre for Research in International Education.

His current teaching includes:

Qualifications

BArts(Hons) Melbourne, GradCertHighEd Monash, PhD Monash

Professional interests/links to industry

Dr Ziguras is a member of the International Education Association of Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Comparative and International Education Society, the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia. He is involved in fostering links between academic researchers, government and the higher education industry through his active participation in the Research Committee of the International Education Association of Australia and the Advisory Panel for New Zealand’s Export Education Innovation Program.

Research/Scholarship

Dr Ziguras’s research investigates various aspects of the globalisation of higher education and in particular the ways in which governments seek to manage and regulate cross-border flows of students, programs and institutions.

Major Research Projects

  • ‘Export Education Innovation – Offshore regulations’, Education New Zealand Research Consultancy, 2008-09.
  • ‘Models and Guidelines for Good Practice in Transnational Education in New Zealand’, Education New Zealand Research Consultancy, 2007.
  • ‘Governing International Trade in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of International Education Policy Development’, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2005–7, with Dr Grant McBurnie.
  • ‘Australian perspectives on the meaning of key terms for trade in education services’, Research Consultancy for the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, 2005.
  • ‘Debating the Impact of International Trade Agreements on Transnational Higher Education’, Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2003, with Dr Grant McBurnie.
  • ‘Strategies for Negotiating International Trade Agreements in Education’, Research Consultancy for the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training, 2002, with Dr Grant McBurnie and Dr Leanne Reinke.
  • ‘Review of the Health Benefits of Community Arts Programs’, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Research Consultancy, 2002, with Prof. Paul James and Douglas McQueen Thomson.
  • ‘Investigating the potential of touch screens in early childhood education’, Microtouch Australia Research Consultancy, 2001, with Dr Geoff Romeo, Suzy Edwards, Dr Sue McNamara and Dr Ian Walker.

Books

McBurnie, G & Ziguras, C 2007 Transnational Education: Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education, Routledge, London.

Ziguras, C 2004, Self-Care: Embodiment, Personal Autonomy and the Shaping of Health Consciousness, Routledge, London, 198pp.

Cope, B & Ziguras, C (eds) 2002, The International Publishing Services Market, Common Ground, Altona, 209pp, ISBN 1-86335-096-9.

Commissioned Research Reports

Ziguras, C, 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: Malaysia, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, Harwood, A 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: Republic of Korea, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, Harwood, A 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: Viet Nam, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, Hoare, L 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: The Sultanate of Oman, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, McBurnie, G 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: China, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, McBurnie, G 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: India, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, McBurnie, G 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: China, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C, Pimpa, N & Harwood, A 2009 Guide to Regulatory Frameworks for Offshore Education: Thailand, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

Ziguras, C 2007 Good Practice in Transnational Education: A Guide for New Zealand Providers, Education New Zealand, Wellington.

McQueen-Thompson, D, James, P & Ziguras, C 2004, Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing through Community & Cultural Development: A Review of Literature focussing on Community Festivals & Celebrations, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Carlton.

Ziguras, C, McBurnie, G & Reinke, L 2003, Strategies for Negotiating Trade in Education Services: Options for Australia, Australian Education International, Canberra.

Cope, B, Kalantzis, M & Ziguras, C 2003, Multimedia, Multiculturalism and the Arts: A Discussion Paper from the Australia Council, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney.

McQueen-Thompson, D & Ziguras, C 2002, Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing through Community & Cultural Development: A Review of Literature focussing on Community Arts Practice, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Carlton.

Ziguras, C 2000, New Frontiers, New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Educational Technology and the Internationalisation of Higher Education in South East Asia, Monash Centre for Research in International Education, Clayton

Book chapters

Ziguras, C (in press) ‘The Effect of Cross-Border Provision on Higher Education Access, Equity and Capacity in the Asia-Pacific Region’, To Do and To Do Well: Access, Equity and Capacity in Asia Pacific Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan.

McBurnie, G & Ziguras, C (in press) ‘The future of transnational education’, in S Vincent-Lancrin (ed.), Higher Education Futures, OECD, Paris.

Ziguras, C 2008 ‘Cultural and contextual issues in the evaluation of transnational distance education’, in T Evans, M Haughey and D Murphy (eds), International Handbook of Distance Education, Emerald, pp.639-54.

Ziguras, C 2008, ‘The cultural politics of transnational education: ideological and pedagogical issues for teaching staff’, in M Wallace and L Dunn (eds), Teaching in Transnational Education: Enhancing Learning for Offshore International Students, Routledge, London, pp.44-54.

Ziguras, C & McBurnie, G 2008, ‘The impact of trade liberalization on transnational education’, in L Dunn & M Wallace (eds), Teaching in Transnational Education: Enhancing Learning for Offshore International Students, Routledge, London, pp.3-13.

Ziguras, C 2005, ‘International Trade in Education Services: Governing the Liberalisation and Regulation of Private Enterprise’, in M Apple, J Kenway & M Singh (eds), Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, and Politics, Peter Lang, New York, pp. 93-112.

Ziguras, C 2005, ‘El crecimento en la educación superior transnacional y la commercialización de la educación superior en la region Asia-Pacífico [The growth of transnational education and the commercialization of higher education in the Asia-Pacific Region]’, S Didou Aupetit & J Medoza Rojas (eds), La Commercialización de los ServiciosEducativos: Retos e OpportunidadesparalasInstitutiones de Educación Superior, Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior, Mexico City, pp.151-162.

McBurnie, G & Ziguras, C 2004, ‘The Regulation of transnational higher education in Southeast Asia: case studies of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia’, in M Tight (ed.), The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Higher Education, RoutledgeFalmer, London, pp.270-286.

Lawrence, A & Ziguras, C 2002, ‘The Business of Exporting Books’, in B Cope & C Ziguras (eds), The International Publishing Services Market, Common Ground, Altona, pp.9-26.

Lawrence, A, Ziguras, C, Brown, M & Wilcox, K 2002, ‘Export Assistance for Publishing’, in B Cope & C Ziguras (eds), The International Publishing Services Market, Common Ground, Altona, pp.173-88.

Ziguras, C 2002, ‘Publishing in International Education’, in B Cope & C Ziguras (eds), The International Publishing Services Market, Common Ground, Altona, pp.153-72.

Ziguras, C & Wilcox, K 2002, ‘Reconstructing the Bosnia-Herzegovina Book Industry’, in B Cope & C Ziguras (eds), The International Publishing Services Market, Common Ground, Altona, pp.131-52.

Ziguras, C, Reinke, L & Scanlon, C 2002, ‘Trends in education for the book industry: Australian and international experiences’, in B Cope & R Freeman (eds), Developing ‘Knowledge Workers’ in the Printing and Publishing Industries, Common Ground, Altona, pp.91-106.

Ziguras, C & Rizvi, F 2001, ‘Future directions in international online education’, in D Davis & D Meares (eds), Transnational Education: Australia Online, IDP Education Australia, Sydney, pp.151-64.

Ziguras, C & Brown, M 2001, ‘Multilingual book publishing in Australia’, in B Cope & G Gollings (eds), Multilingual Book Production: Technology Drivers Across the Book Production Supply Chain, from Creator to Consumer, Common Ground Publishing, Altona, pp.37-48.

Ziguras, C & Brown, M 2001, ‘Digital multilingual book production’, in B Cope & G Gollings (eds), Multilingual Book Production: Technology Drivers Across the Book Production Supply Chain, from Creator to Consumer, Common Ground Publishing, Altona, pp.49-60, ISBN 1-86335-073-X.

Journal articles

Ziguras C and Law, SF 2006 ‘Recruiting international students as skilled migrants: the global ‘skills race’ as viewed from Australia and Malaysia’, Globalisation, Societies and Education, 4(1), pp.59-76.

Ziguras, C 2003, ‘The impact of the GATS on transnational tertiary education: Comparing experiences of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia’, Australian Educational Researcher, 30(3), pp.89-110.

Ziguras, C, McBurnie, G & Reinke, L 2003, ‘‘Hardly neutral players’: Australia’s role in liberalizing trade in education services’, Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1(3), pp.359-74.

McBurnie, G & Ziguras, C 2003, ‘Remaking the world in our own image: Australia’s efforts to liberalise trade in education services’, Australian Journal of Education, 47(1), pp.217-34.

Gribble, K & Ziguras, C 2003, ‘Learning to teach offshore: pre-departure training for lecturers in transnational programs’, Higher Education Research and Development, 22(2), pp.205-16.

Romeo, G, Edwards, S, McNamara, S, Walker, I & Ziguras, C 2003, ‘Touching the screen: issues related to the use of touchscreen technology in early childhood education’, British Journal of Educational Technology, 34(3), pp.329-39.

McBurnie, G & Ziguras, C 2001, ‘The Regulation of transnational higher education in Southeast Asia: case studies of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia’, Higher Education, 42(1), pp.85-105.

Ziguras, C 2001, ‘Educational technology in transnational higher education in South East Asia: the cultural politics of flexible learning’, Educational Technology and Society, 4(4), pp.8-18.

Ziguras, C 2001, ‘Narcissism and self-care: theorising America’s obsession with mundane health behaviour’, Journal of Mundane Behaviour, 2(2).

Other publications available online

McBurnie, G and Ziguras, C 2007, ‘Institutions, Not Students, Get the Travel Bug’, Far Eastern Economic Review, January/February, pp.58-61.

Ziguras, C and McBurnie, G 2006, ‘Manifestos and Manifestations in Athens: protests against proposals for the recognition of private higher education in Greece’, International Higher Education, No.45, pp.5-6.

McBurnie, G and Ziguras, C 2006, ‘The international branch campus’, IIENetworker: The International Education Magazine, Spring, pp.35-7.

Conference papers

'How Many International Students Can Australia Accommodate?', opening keynote address to the National ELICOS Accreditation Scheme ELT Management Conference, Swiss_tel, Sydney, 15 to 16 May 2008.

'Trends in Transnational Higher Education: From Distance Education to the Branch Campus', Issues & Ideas in Higher Education Seminar Series, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, 16 June 2008. (with Grant McBurnie).

'The Effect of Cross-Border Provision on Higher Education Access, Equity and Capacity in the Asia-Pacific Region', East-West Center Senior Seminar on Higher Education Access, Equity and Capacity in the Asia-Pacific Region, National Chung Cheng University, Chia yi, Taiwan, 21 to 25 July 2008.

'Options for Attracting Research Students to Australia', paper presented to the Australian International Education Conference, Sydney, 7 to10 October 2008.

'Towards an 'Internationalized' Higher. Education Policy', Paper presented to the Australian International Education Conference, Sydney, 7 to 10 October 2007.

‘Rising to the Challenge of Regulating Open Education Markets’, paper presented to the Fourth Session of the Regional Follow-up Committee for the 1998 World Conference on Higher Education, ‘Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific: Linkages, Co-operation and Trade’, Mandarin Hotel, Macao, PR China, 17 to 19 July 2007.

'Implications of Bologna and Trade Liberalisation', paper presented to the 9th Annual ATN Conference 2007: Impact - the weight of tradition versus future potential, University of Technology, Sydney, 7 to 9 February 2007.

Research Supervision

Current Project Titles

  • ‘A Participatory Evaluation of Knowledge Networks: New strategies to support knowledge sharing for sustainable development’, PhD, RMIT
  • ‘The Development of Quality Assurance Systems in Cambodian Higher Education’, PhD, RMIT
  • ‘The Regulation of Private Higher Education in Malaysia’, PhD, RMIT
  • ‘An Evaluation of Programs to Enhance the English-Language Competence of International Students in Australia’, PhD, RMIT
  • ‘Preparation of Academic Staff for Offshore Teaching’, PhD, RMIT
  • ‘International student mobility and brain drain’, PhD, University of Melbourne (second supervisor)
  • ‘Policy development, policy implementation and program evaluation in second language education: a comparative study of Greece and Australia’, PhD, RMIT (second supervisor)

Completed Research Students

  • Mohammad Rahimi, ‘Transfer of Australian Vocational Education and Training knowledge and practice in a global context’, Master of Arts (International Studies) by research, RMIT, 2009 (second supervisor)
  • Shanthi Robertson, ‘From International Student to Skilled Migrant in Victoria’, PhD, RMIT, 2008
  • Foula Kopanidis, ‘An Investigation of Undergraduate Choice Behaviour of a Preferred Program, Discipline and University: A Conceptual Model’, RMIT University, 2008 (second supervisor)
  • Weihua Luo, ‘English Language Teaching in Chinese Universities in the Era of the World Trade Organization: A Learner Perspective’, PhD, RMIT, 2007
  • Supaporn Chalapati, ‘Program quality and internationalisation of higher education in Thailand’, PhD, RMIT, 2007 (second supervisor)
  • Ian Fraser, ‘Joint programs in Chinese universities’, PhD, RMIT, 2006 (second supervisor)
  • Bowstock Umaroho, ‘A Case for Political Decentralisation in Nigeria’, Master of Arts (International Studies) by research, RMIT, 2006
  • Marilyn Robert, ‘The Uses of Popular Media Resources in the Teaching of Proficiency English Courses in Australian and Malaysian Universities’, Master of Education by research, RMIT, 2005
  • Carmen Gould, ‘A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Consumer Data Privacy Values Within the Context of the Internet and the Physical World’, PhD, RMIT, 2005 (second supervisor)

Accomplishments/achievements

  • Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Award for Best Educational Resource, 1998. Awarded to Court Stories, a 20-minute educational video program I wrote with film production company Screen Productions for Victoria Legal Aid, Human Services Victoria and the Justice Department
  • US International Film and Video Festival Awards, Silver Screen Award – Visitors’ Centres and Museums, 1998, awarded to Mildura – Reflections, Echoes, Dreams, a 10-minute video program I wrote with media production company Australian Business Theatre for the Mildura Rural and City Council