Professor Richard Watermeyer
PhD, MSc, BA
Current positions
Professor of Education
School of Education
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The value of public engagement: Assessing its contribution and cost to policy and research
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
06/12/2021 to 05/12/2022
8109 - WUN - The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of academics and students aroundthe world
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/07/2020 to 31/12/2022
8109 - R Watermeyer - Research Study of University Physics Outreach
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
13/03/2020 to 18/12/2020
Thesis supervisions
The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Indonesian Higher Education Internationalisation
Supervisors
Applying a Bourdieusian lens to the school choices of Hong Kong's middle-class parents in public-funded secondary schools
Supervisors
A critical realist analysis of COVID-19 pandemic policy enactment in English secondary schools
Supervisors
Exploring the perspectives of academic and senior management staff on the influence of global university rankings in the higher education context of Kazakhstan
Supervisors
Internationalization of Indonesian Higher Education
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
07/08/2025A crisis of the professoriate?
Minerva
Over worked and undervalued? Knotted tensions of identity, purpose, and change in contemporary higher education
Studies in Higher Education
Academic anomie
Higher Education
Academics’ Weak(ening) Resistance to Generative AI
Postdigital Science and Education
Postdigital Citizen Science and Humanities
Postdigital Science and Education
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