Nigel M Healey | |
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Nationality | New Zealand, United Kingdom |
Occupation | Professor of International Higher Education |
Website | https://limerick.academia.edu/NigelHealey |
Nigel Healey is a British-New Zealand academic [1] in management and higher education, who is Professor of International Higher Education and currently Vice-President of Global and Community Engagement at the University of Limerick. He served as Interim Provost and Deputy President [2] during the Covid-19 pandemic from September 2020 to June 2022, returning to his substantive position in July 2022. [3] His current research interests are in the internationalization of higher education, transnational education [4] and higher education policy and management. [5]
Prior to his appointment at the University of Limerick, Healey held senior academic positions at Fiji National University, [6] [7] Nottingham Trent University, [8] the University of Canterbury [9] and Manchester Metropolitan University, [10] as well as teaching positions at the University of Leicester, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Northampton. He has been a visiting professor at Kent State University, South Dakota State University, University of Gdansk, University of Szczecin, [11] Belarusian State University and Sichuan University.
Healey has served as an economic policy advisor to the prime minister of Belarus and the deputy minister of economy of the Russian Federation and managed a number of multinational research and economic development projects in different parts of the world. His current research interests are in the internationalisation of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management. [12] [13] [14] Earlier in his career, he was the author and/or editor of a number of books on macroeconomic and monetary policy. [15]
He is chair of the QS Global Advisory Committee which organises international higher education summits around the world each year, including the Middle-East and Africa (each March), Europe (each June), the Americas (each September) and the Asia-Pacific (each November). [16] He is institutional coordinator of the EMERGE European University Alliance and a member of the Advisory Board of the European Reform University Alliance. Healey has previously served terms as a director of the Central Applications Office (CAO) in Ireland, governor of De Montfort University (Kazakhstan), a member of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), [17] the Board of Trustees for the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) and the Council of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), a director of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management and the Chartered Association of Business Schools and a member of the National Management Committee for the Chartered Management Institute and Universities New Zealand Committee on International Policy. [18]
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the New Zealand Institute of Management and Leadership and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. [19]
Healey holds a BA (1st Class Hons.) Economics from the University of Nottingham, an MA (Distinction) Economics from the University of Leeds, an MBA (Distinction) from the University of Warwick, a DBA in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath and a PhD in Management from Nottingham Trent University.
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