Dr. Andrew Gibson

Dr. Andrew Gibson

Assistant Professor, Education


Biography

Dr Andrew Gibson is Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Education, and co-director of the Cultures, Academic Values in Education (CAVE) research centre. He is also on University Council as a Junior Representative for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to joining Trinity, he worked in Aarhus University, Denmark, on the "Research for impact: Integrating research and societal impact in the humanities PhD" project as a postdoctoral fellow. His research career in started in 2013 through involvement projects relating to higher education, initially with a primary concentration on policy as it relates to research impact, the humanities, and university rankings. As well as this, he has consulted for the OECD on the HEInnovate series of reviews of the national higher education systems in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Austria.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, Global science, national research, and the question of university rankings, Palgrave Communications, 3, (1), 2017Journal Article, 2017, DOI
  • Andrew G. Gibson, Arts and humanities research, redefining public benefit, and research prioritization in Ireland, Research Evaluation, 26, (3), 2017, p199 - 210Journal Article, 2017, DOI
  • Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, Public goods and public policy: what is public good, and who and what decides?, Higher Education, 2018Journal Article, 2018, DOI
  • Gibson A.G., Infrapolitics and role abeyance: How Irish military officers experience university, Irish Journal of Sociology, 29, (2), 2021, p160 - 186, p160-186Journal Article, 2021, DOI
  • Andrew G. Gibson, Making gifts from contracts: symbolic resources and resanctification in officers' language, Critical Military Studies, 9, (3), 2022, p384 - 403Journal Article, 2022, DOI , URL
  • Andrew G. Gibson, The Affective Researcher, Emerald, 2022Book, 2022, DOI
  • An Introduction: Choosing a Topic and Becoming an Affective Researcher in, editor(s)Andrew G. Gibson , The Affective Researcher, Emerald, 2022, pp1 - 34, [Andrew G. Gibson]Book Chapter, 2022, DOI
  • Affective Researching, Affective Scenes and an Affective Project in, editor(s)Andrew G. Gibson , The Affective Researcher, Emerald, 2022, pp139 - 160, [Andrew G. Gibson]Book Chapter, 2022, DOI
  • "Part of the Furniture": Ireland, Bologna, and Two Decades of Higher Education Reform in, editor(s)Bruno Broucker, Kurt De Wit, Jef C. Verhoeven, and Liudvika Lei ytė , Higher Education System Reform: An International Comparison after Twenty Years of Bologna, Leiden, Brill Sense, 2019, pp151 - 163, [Andrew G. Gibson, Ellen Hazelkorn]Book Chapter, 2019, URL
  • The Impact and Influence of Rankings on the Quality, Performance and Accountability Agenda in, editor(s)E. Hazelkorn, H. Coates, & A. C. McCormick , Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability, Edward Elgar, 2018, pp232 - 246, [Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson]Book Chapter, 2018, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Governing Global Higher Education and Science: IONAs and Ever-Renewing Webs of Interconnection in, editor(s)Preeti Shroff, Jagdish Sheth, John Garrison, Shailendra Raj Mehta , Handbook of Global and Digital Governance, [Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson]Book Chapter
  • Andrew G. Gibson, World humanities - Towards an ontology of policy, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 23, (1), 2024, p3 - 22Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL
  • Andrew Gibson, For a nomad ontology against academic citizenship, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 6, (2), 2024, p187 - 196Journal Article, 2024, DOI , URL
  • Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, Government policies favouring research for economic returns can overlook existing strengths in arts and humanities, 2017, -Miscellaneous, URL
  • Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, New ways to make the case for the public good of HE, 2017, -Miscellaneous, URL
  • Paul Benneworth, Magnus Gulbrandsen, Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, Crucial role of arts and humanities in social change, 2016, -Miscellaneous, URL
  • Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, Another Year, Another Methodology: Are Rankings Telling Us Anything New?, International Higher Education, 84, (Winter), 2016, p3 - 4Journal Article, DOI , URL
  • Andrew G. Gibson, Barry Colfer, Ellen Hazelkorn, Report on the Survey of Governance and Adaptation to Innovative Modes of Higher Education Provision (GAIHE), Dublin, 2014, 2014Report, URL
  • Ellen Hazelkorn, Martin Ryan, Andrew G. Gibson, Elaine Ward, Recognising the Value of the Arts and Humanities in a Time of Austerity, Dublin, 2013, 2013Report, URL
  • Amélia Veiga, Tim Seidenschnur, European Universities in an Age of Pandemic: Ireland, Working Papers on University Reform, 37, Centre for Global Higher Education Futures (CHEF), Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, December, 2022, p195 - 226Report, URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Andrew G. Gibson, Review: Matt Brim (2020), Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University., Review of Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University., by Matt Brim , Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 16, (1), 2023, p119-121Review, DOI , URL
  • From Massification to Globalisation: Reflections on the Transformation of Irish Higher Education in, editor(s)Kevin Rafter , The State in Transition, Dublin, New Island, 2015, pp235 - 260, [Ellen Hazelkorn, Andrew G. Gibson, Siobhan Harkin]Book Chapter

Research Expertise

My research interests are broadly within philosophy of higher education and philosophical approaches to higher education. My current research interests focus on how the humanities are a mode of engaging with the world distinctly different from the social, natural, and life sciences. I am also researching the ontology of policy, and approaches to dialogue within philosophy of education. A current research project, funded by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), looks at academic integrity and how this is understood by staff and students in Irish higher education, and what this tells us about how to best encourage academic integrity across institutions of higher education in Ireland. As well as this, along with Taina Saarinen of Jyvaskyla University, I coordinate the 'Alternative Internationalisms' working group that seeks to develop alternative theoretical approaches to the international dimension of higher education.

  • Title
    A Cost-Benefit Analysis of using the ICAI-McCabe Survey to Measure Beliefs and Knowledge about Academic Integrity in Irish Higher Education
    Summary
    For those working and studying in Irish higher education, the rapidly expanding range and types of academic misconduct are prompting renewed institutional and sectoral efforts to safeguard academic integrity. Central to dealing with such a critical topic is understanding what those working and studying in Irish higher education know and believe about academic integrity. This project will evaluate the challenges, costs, and benefits of adapting the ICAI-McCabe surveys of faculty and student attitudes and beliefs about academic integrity for use within the HEI sector in Ireland.
    Funding Agency
    Quality and Qualifications Ireland
    Date From
    01/02/23
    Date To
    31/03/24

Sociology and Social Work, Other Humanities, Philosophy, Ethics and Religion, Education,

Recognition

  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events Fund 2024
  • Trinity Research Excellence Award, "Cherish Academic Freedom, Diversity of Scholarship, and Pursuit of Truth" 1/6/23
  • Educational Studies Association of Ireland
  • Secretary of Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES)
  • Editorial board Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education (Peter Lang) 2023-
  • International advisory board of Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF) research centre, Aarhus University, Denmark 2023-
  • Coordinator 'Alternative Internationalisms' working group 2020-
  • University Council, AHSS Faculty Junior Staff Representative 2023-2024
  • Reviews editor and editorial board for the journal LATISS: Learning and Teaching (Berghahn) 2022-
  • Peer reviewer for various journals (e.g. Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, LATISS, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, Higher Education) 2018-