1. SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT Practising globalising research: enacting new worlds? Nick Lewis Richard Le Heron School of Environment The University of Auckland

2. SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT Social science, globalising research, and global challenges Social science apprehends, represents and enacts knowledge about the relations that make the world... and their consequences. Interfering in the realities of worlds to make a difference and to help shape new realities, requires new tools / practices for understanding and engagement with consequences, complexity and elusiveness Post-structuralist political economy seeks to know and re-narrate the mediation of investment decisions by engaging widely and opportunistically in institution building Universities are being remade internally and at their borders as what counts as valid and useful knowledge, a legitimate and/or effective knowledge producer, and how to produce and deploy knowledge is being rethought Globalising research networks are not just part of this set of changes, they are constitutive of them – can they be invented and practiced, and is there the will to know and make better worlds?

3. Practising globalising higher education and research from the bottom FundingPurpose Source of conception Learning Expansionary lines / generative potential Teaching dimensions BRCSS National: TEC Capability building in NZ social science Academic Capability as relational / collective project New generation BRCSS International visitors Science–Socsci relations Scholarships SKCANUniversity Know situated knowledge Academic Generative capacity of cross-disciplinarity Other members PGs as members URGE EU: Marie Curie Knowledge transfer Academic Generative capacity of long-term thematic engagement New projects Realise links WATU links PG participation in workshops GUISM MoE Singapore Academic Position Singapore Academic Doing cross-national networks is hard Insights from decentring tradition New calculi of reputation APRU links New linkages Akld-Sing PG research assistants Material for teaching Biological Economies (5 Univ: 9 academics) Marsden (Blue Skies) Re-know nexus of chains and place in rural value relations Academic Producer-consumer anxieties Experimentation, provenance BE-CONANX Chatham House Summer studentships Sheffield GKSVarious Track, theorise GE Academic Depth, speed, multiplicity, import of GE WUN network GSE Journal Globalhighered blog PhD students GGHERWUNKnowing GEAcademicLocal and globalSymposium; WUN Global challenge Crossing borders ????

4. SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT Message lines New linkages are being assembled into something greater than the links Embrace heterogeneity and its generative capacity Nation state projects are open in new ways to agenda setting initiatives Disciplines can be revitalised by innovative disruption of their borders Universities are placed: in status relations, intellectual agendas, nation state projects, the relations of their academics, and funding regimes Academics imagine/initiate/drive/facilitate projects: they do creative work and are entrepreneurial engines of their universities – the challenge is to enliven not discipline this creativity Global spaces can enhance this creativity What global, where/whose global? Academics need to embrace a politics and practice of possibility Universities need to draw on expertise of ROs rather subject academics to them – questions here for ‘doing’ GE&R (‘the’ WUN model) The GRHE global challenge is a field of opportunity for assembling relations, ideas, insights, discoveries and stuff No design for an effective network, but examples of what can be done