Ruth Keeling

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Ruth Keeling is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education and the Center for British Studies, UC Berkeley. Ruth is working with John Douglass at CSHE on higher education policy issues affecting US and EU research universities. Her research at Berkeley is supported by a scholarship from the Anglo-California Foundation.

Ruth coordinates the European Education Policy Network, an international research network affiliated with the Centre of International Studies (CIS), at the University of Cambridge, UK. The Network provides a forum for academics and policymakers throughout Europe to discuss current and future trends, challenges and priorities for European education. The Network ran a highly-successful international conference series on the emerging agenda for European education in 2007. Ruth is also conducting research on the progress of higher education reforms in European universities, for organisations such as the European University Association and the League of European Research Universities.

Ruth is permanently based at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, where she is completing her PhD studies. Her doctoral research explores the emergence of European-level policy for higher education, and the European Union's increasingly active involvement in higher education and research issues. She is examining the role of transnational groups and alliances in the intergovernmental Bologna Process of coordinated higher education reforms. At Cambridge, Ruth was also the graduate member on Cambridge University's two governing bodies, the University Council (2004-6) and the General Board (2005-6), as well as the sabbatical President of the University's Graduate Union (2004-5). She was also a member of the University's strategic review committee on graduate education (2005-7).

Ruth has also worked at the European Commission in the Directorate for Education (in 2003 and again in 2005), on issues relating to EU relations with non-EU countries in higher education, the Lisbon and Bologna Processes, the European Institute of Technology proposal and the Erasmus Mundus global exchange programme. She was also part of the international research team which prepared the European University Association's 'Trends V' report to the European Education Ministers in 2007.

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