Profile of Prof OLEKSIYENKO, Anatoly - The Education University of Hong Kong


Professor	Department of International Education

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Personal Profile

Anatoly Oleksiyenko is Professor of International Higher Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS) at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). His research focuses on the challenges of globalisation in higher education and transformations of universities in the 21^stcentury. His publications address the dilemmas of agency of internationalization in higher education, complexity of governance, and ethics of leadership in neoliberal universities. He is a leading scholar on the challenges of organizational change in post-soviet higher education. His paper “On the Shoulders of Giants? Global science, resource asymmetries, and repositioning of research universities in China and Russia” (Comparative Education Review) received CIES-HESIG’s Best Article Award in 2016, and his book Global Mobility and Higher Learning (Routledge) won the Best Book Award from CIES’ SIG International Students and Study Abroad in 2019. Professor Oleksiyenko holds a PhD in Higher Education from OISE-University of Toronto.

Research Outputs


Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2024). When intellectual leadership dies: Critical voice vs. self-censorship in precarious universities. Fitzgerald, T. , Gunter, H., & Nixon, J., Intellectual Leadership, Higher Education and Precarious Times (21-40). London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/intellectual-leadership-higher-education-and-precarious-times-9781350291805/ Oleksiyenko, A.V.& Tavadze, G. (2023). ანატოლი ოლექსიენკო, გიორგი თავაძე (2023). პოსტსაბჭოთა უმაღლესი განათლების დეკოლონიზაცია (postsabchota umaghlesi ganatlebis dekolonizacia) [Decolonisation of Post-Soviet Higher Education]. Tavadze, G., Colonial and Postcolonial Legacy: Past, Present, and Future (236-262). Tbilisi: Varlam Cherkezishvili Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023). Managerialism with soviet characteristics and global higher education: Legacies and paradoxes of university transformations. Leišytė, L., Dee, J., & van der Meulen, B., Handbook of Transformation in Higher Education (82-95). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-the-transformation-of-higher-education-9781800378209.html Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023). From the revolution of dignity to a revolution of academic excellence? Paths taken and not taken in Ukraine. Gerard A. POSTIGLIONE, Christopher J. JOHNSTONE, Wesley R. TETER, Handbook of education policy (51-67). Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800375062.00012 Oleksiyenko, A. (2023). From the Revolution of Dignity to a Revolution of Academic Excellence? Paths Taken and Not Taken in Ukraine. Postiglione, G.A., Johnstone, C., Teter, W. (Eds.), Handbook of Education Policy (51-67). UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Journal Publications Oleksiyenko, A. & Terepyshchyi, S. (2024). ‘Hope despite all odds’: Academic precarity in embattled Ukraine. Teaching in Higher Education, 29(3), 741-755. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2023.2263744 Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2024). Rethinking academic citizenship for collective agency in times of crisis. Higher Education Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12520 Shchepetylnykova, L. & Oleksiyenko, A. V. (2024). What comes after post-Soviet? Towards a new concept of de-Sovietization in higher education and research. International Journal of Educational Development, 106 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2024.103014 Oleksiyenko, A.V., Liu, J., & Ngan, C. (2024). Internationalization of higher education research in the Greater Bay Area of China: Building capacities, alleviating asymmetries. Higher Education Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12502 Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023). Intentionality as a relational agency in the internationalisation of higher education. Globalisation, Societies and Education https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2293183 Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023). Geopolitical agendas and internationalization of post-soviet higher education: Discursive dilemmas in the realm of the prestige economy. International Journal of Educational Development, 102 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2023.102857 Oleksiyenko, A., Shchepetylnykova, I., & Furiv, U. (2023). Internationalization of higher education in tumultuous times: Transformative powers and problems in embattled Ukraine. Higher Education Research and Development, 42 (5), 1103-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193727 Phan, L.H., Oleksiyenko, A.V., & Fry, G. (2023). Editorial. Research in Comparative and International Education, 18(2), 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1177/17454999231182206 Oleksiyenko, A. and Ros, V. (2023). Human agency and legacy-innovation tensions in the internationalization of higher education: Re-orientations managed by internationally-educated scholars of Central Asia. International Journal of Educational Development, 97 Doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2022.102716. Oleksiyenko, A. (2023). De-Sovietisation of Georgian higher education: deconstructing unfreedom. Quality in Higher Education, 29 (1), 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2022.2100599 Oleksiyenko, A. & Liu, J. (2022). Internationalization of higher education in the Greater Bay Area: The role of world-class universities and regional innovation. Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 3(4), 50-64. https://doi.org/10.52547/johepal.3.4.50 Oleksiyenko, A.; Mendoza, P.; Cárdenas Riaño, F.E.; Dwivedi, O.P.; Kabir, A.; Kuzhabekova, A.; Charles, M.; Ros, V.; Shchepetylnykova, I. (2022). Global crisis management and higher education: Agency and coupling in the context of wicked COVID-19 problems. Higher Education Quarterly, 77(2), 356-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12406 Marini, G. & Oleksiyenko, A. (2022). Academic freedom in the re-imagined post-Humboldtian Europe. Higher Education Quarterly, 76(3), 513-520. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12405 Oleksiyenko, A. (2022). Ukrainian academics in the times of war. Academic Praxis, 2, 19-26. https://cerc.edu.hku.hk/academic-praxis/ukrainian-academics-in-the-times-of-war/published version
Conference Papers Oleksiyenko, A. (2024, June). Comparing intellectual leadership dilemmas in post-soviet Georgia and Ukraine.. Critical University Studies (CUS) Conference “Rage against the machine: Remaking universities for hopeful futures”, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, June 19-21, 2024., Hong Kong. Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2024, June). Regional Internationalization of Higher Education: Toward Cross-Border Collaborations in the Greater Bay Area of China.. 10th HERA Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 5-6 June, 2024., Taipei. Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2024, March). Reconceptualizing Regional Geopolitics in Global Higher Education: The East-West Intersections of Higher Learning in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis.. Conference of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Oxford University and UCL (London, UK). I of E, University of London, 25 March, 2024., London. Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023, September). Internationalization and Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in the Embattled Ukraine.. General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Charles University (Czech Republic), 4-8 September, 2023., Prague. Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023, September). Internationalization of the Post-Soviet Higher Education Affected by Geopolitical Crises.. CHER 35th Annual Conference, Vienna (Austria), 30 August – September 1, 2023., Vienna. Oleksiyenko, A.V. (2023, August). Presentation of the Chapter “Managerialism with Soviet Characteristics and Global Higher Education: Legacies and Paradoxes of University Transformations” at the book launch by Leisyte, L., Dee, J. and Meulen, B. (eds.). Handbook of Transformation in Higher Education.. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), “The Value of Diversity in Education and Educational Research”, the University of Glasgow (Scotland), 22 – 25 August 2023., Glasgow. Oleksiyenko, A. (2023, June). The Challenges of Desovietization and Intellectual Leadership in the Post-Soviet Space of Higher Education. The 5th Annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Society (PaTHES) Conference: “Solidarity and University”. PaTHES, University of Gdansk, Poland. Oleksiyenko, A. (2023, May). Geopolitical Agenda in the Internationalisation of Post-Soviet Higher Education. (Highlighted Panel – Congress Open Event).. Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education/ Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences., York University, Toronto, Canada. Oleksiyenko, A. (2023, March). World Class Universities and International Student Mobility in Hong Kong Keynote Presentation. The international conference “Ranking Systems: an Inquest Towards a World-Class University”, held by the Center for International Scientific Studies and Cooperation (Ministry of Science, Research and Technology), Tehran, Iran. Oleksiyenko, A. (2022, November). Critical Thinking and Learning in Post-Pandemic Schools and Colleges. Presentation at the Invited Panel “Differentiated Education” at the 2nd Istanbul Education Summit.. Turkiye Maarif Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey. Oleksiyenko, A. (2022, November). Reimagining intellectual leadership in post-Soviet higher education. Global Public Seminars, Comparative and International Education, Oxford University, UK. Oleksiyenko, A. (2022, September). Academic Freedom Challenges in Ukraine. Annual Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research. ECPR, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Oleksiyenko, A. (2022, September). Global crisis management in higher education. Paper presented at 34th Annual Conference of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
All Other Outputs Oleksiyenko, A. (hosting Allen, R.; Bakhrushyn, V.; Bosio, E.; Chankseliani, M.; Grimm, A.; Khalavka, Y.; Macfarlane, B.; Nikolaiev, Y.; R'boul, H.; Shahjahan, R.; Zhuk, M. (2022). International Higher Education @ EdUHK (Podcast). Hong Kong https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/jgp77hHOjzb Oleksiyenko, A. (2022). War and education in Ukraine. UCL: FreshEd (Podcast Hosted by Dr. Will Brehm, UCL). https://freshedpodcast.com/oleksiyenko/#tab-id-1published version

Projects


Reconceptualising East-West Dilemmas in Higher Learning: Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in Central and Eastern Europe This research project aims at reconceptualising the dilemmas of East-West tensions and synergies as interpreted in the contemporary geopolitical studies of international higher education. By examining these dilemmas in comparative terms within Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine), the study will help university policy-makers, researchers and teachers in the field achieve a more profound understanding and developmental perspective on reorientations and challenges in cross-border partnerships and programs that seek to integrate and reconcile ideas, values, and practices from the East and the West. Project Start Year: 2023, Principal Investigator(s): OLEKSIYENKO, Anatoliy V
Re-imagining Intellectual Leadership in Post-Soviet Higher Education The project aims at: 1) re-examining intellectual leadership in the post-Soviet context of higher education and explore challenges experienced by young scholars in joining the global networks of science and innovation; 2) conceptualizing how intellectual leadership relates to the current practice of institutional leadership and administration, and how various epistemological communities shape academic leadership roles through knowledge production, boundary transgression, academic citizenship and public intellectualism in post-Soviet universities; 3) enhancing a cross-cultural discourse on capacity-building for intellectual leadership in the transformative systems of higher learning and academic science. Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): OLEKSIYENKO, Anatoliy V

Reconceptualising East-West Dilemmas in Higher Learning: Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in Central and Eastern Europe
This research project aims at reconceptualising the dilemmas of East-West tensions and synergies as interpreted in the contemporary geopolitical studies of international higher education. By examining these dilemmas in comparative terms within Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Czechia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine), the study will help university policy-makers, researchers and teachers in the field achieve a more profound understanding and developmental perspective on reorientations and challenges in cross-border partnerships and programs that seek to integrate and reconcile ideas, values, and practices from the East and the West.
Project Start Year: 2023, Principal Investigator(s): OLEKSIYENKO, Anatoliy V

Re-imagining Intellectual Leadership in Post-Soviet Higher Education
The project aims at: 1) re-examining intellectual leadership in the post-Soviet context of higher education and explore challenges experienced by young scholars in joining the global networks of science and innovation; 2) conceptualizing how intellectual leadership relates to the current practice of institutional leadership and administration, and how various epistemological communities shape academic leadership roles through knowledge production, boundary transgression, academic citizenship and public intellectualism in post-Soviet universities; 3) enhancing a cross-cultural discourse on capacity-building for intellectual leadership in the transformative systems of higher learning and academic science.
Project Start Year: 2020, Principal Investigator(s): OLEKSIYENKO, Anatoliy V

Prizes and awards


Visiting Professor Date of receipt: 25/4/2023, Conferred by: Eastern European University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Honorary Professor Date of receipt: 1/9/2022, Conferred by: The University of Hong Kong

Career Overview


The Education University of Hong Kong Professor Research and teaching in international higher education Date : 09/2022- Present
The University of Hong Kong Associate Professor Research and teaching in international higher education Date : 06/2015-08/2022
The University of Hong Kong Assistant Professor Research and teaching in international higher education Date : 08/2009-06/2015