Position: Professor

Research Interest

• Transnational academic mobility/migration, knowledge, and identity; intellectuals and political ideology, onto-epistemology
• Ethnic nationalism and internationalism, nation vs state, stateless nation, pariah
• Comparative historical sociology, comparative (higher) education, comparative and intercultural theory, East Asian Area studies (Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, and Singapore)
• International relations, life history, biographical narrative research
• Social history of universities, public/private boundaries in higher education, university governance, the academic profession

Education

• Ph.D. in Comparative Higher Education, University of London, Institute of Education (now UCL IOE) (Dec. 1998)                                                                                                                                                            Supervisors: Professor Robert Cowen†; Professor Jagdish Gundara†                                                            Thesis: Forming the Academic Profession in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis (published as abook by Routledge in 2001; re-issued in 2018; 2020)
• MA in Comparative Education (Distinction on dissertation), University of London, Institute of Education (now UCL IOE) (Sept. 1992)                                                                                                                          Thesis: Korean Higher Education: an interpretation and a comparison
• BA in Education [summa cum laude] (Liberal Arts, non ITT; subsidiary subjects: Philosophy, History, Sociology, Psychology), Yonsei University, Seoul (Feb. 1991)

Current Posts

• Professor (full), Hanyang University, College of International Studies (CIS), Global Content Convergence (SGCC) | School of International Studies (SIS) | Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Korean Studies; College of Humanities, Dept. of History | Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture (RICH)

Previous Posts

• 2022-present: Visiting Professor, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• 2020-present: Honorary Professor, University of East London, London, U.K.
• 2020-2022: Academic Visitor, St Antony’s College, Oxford
• 2013- 2020: (full) Professor of Comparative Higher Education; Founding Leader of Higher Education Research Group (HERG: www.uel.ac.uk/herg/leader); Chair of College Research Ethics Board; Chair of School Research Ethics Committee; Reader in Comparative Higher Education, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London (UEL)
• 2007-2013: Lecturer in Comparative Higher Education, Brunel University London
• 2002-2007: Research Lecturer in Critical Professional Education, Brunel University
• 2001-2002: Brain Korea 21 Contract Professor, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea
• 2000-2001: Post-doc Visiting Scholar in International Relations, London School of Economics (LSE)
• 1999: Research Consultant, OECD CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation), Paris
• 1993: Researcher, KEDI (Korean Education Development Institute), Seoul

Honorary Affiliations

• Honorary Professor, University of East London (UEL), in Lonon, UK
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University College London (UCL), IOE in London, UK
• Visiting Professor, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea

Professional Appointments

• Vice President, Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE)(since 2022)
• QS Global Advisory Committee member (since 2022)
• Editorial Board member of Comparative Education journal (Taylor & Francis journal, since May 2012-present)
• Guest Editor of the Special Issues of Comparative Education 52(1) in 2016; 56(1) in 2020.
• Editorial Board member of Intercultural Education journal (Taylor & Francis journal) (since 2011 - present)
• Editor of the Special Issue of Intercultural Education journal 20(5) in 2009.
• Founding Editorial Board member of Policy Reviews in Higher Education (since July 2015, launched in 2016)
• Editorial Board member of Culture, Education and Future (journal published by the Association for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Education Studies (AAIDES) (since 2024-present)
• International Advisory Board member of New Research - New Voices, Series Editor: Halla B. Holmarsdottir, Publisher: Brill (since 2024-present)

Book

• Kim, T. (2020/2001) Forming the Academic Profession in East Asia: a Comparative Analysis, Routledge (originally published as The Routledge East Asia History, Politics, Sociology, Culture book series in 2001 ERIC - ED457803 - Forming the Academic Profession in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis. East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture. A Routledge Series., 2001 – re-issued as a part of the Routledge Library Editions in 2018; 2020) ISBN: 9781138316003, 358 Pages. Published April 29, 2020, by Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Forming-the-Academic-Professionin-East-Asia-A-Comparative-Analysis/Kim/p/book/9781138315945

Research Articles (indicative-out of 69 publications, including one book and five edited collections as journal Special Issues

• Kim, T. and Bash, L. (2025). Interculturality Between Majority and Minority in the European Context of Ethnic Nationalism, Chapter 5, pp. 57-72. In: Genkova, P., Flynn, M., Morley, M., Rašticová, M. (eds) Handbook of Diversity Competence. Springer Nature, Cham.
• Choi, E. and Kim, T. (2024). ‘Internationalization of Korean Higher Education: A critical appraisal of current practice’, Chapter 6, pp. 99-119. In Contrasting conceptions of internationalization interculturally, edited by Fred Dervin, Routledge.
• Kim, T. (2023) ‘Knowledge and Identity on the Move: the three elements affecting comparative education’, In Scuola Democratica Issue 3/2023, settembre-dicembre, Gli studi comparativi in educazione: teorie, ricerche, insegnamento. Guest editors: Donatella Palomba e Carlo Cappa, pp. 443-462.
• Cowen, R. and Kim, T. (2023) ‘Comparative Education and Intercultural Education: Relations and Revisions’ In Comparative Education 59(3) Special Issue: Comparative Education: Some Futures?, edited by Robert Cowen.
• Kim, T. (2023) ‘How has Comparative Education research contributed to the internationalization of education research and its academic societies under globalization?’ to be published in the Special Issue of Comparative Education Bulletin of the Japan Comparative Education Society 比較教育学研究第66号〔2023年〕 No. 66., pp. 124-140.
• Kim, T. (2023) ‘Korean ethnic nationalism and modern education: Christianity and political ideologies in shaping one nation and two States’, Chapter 6, pp. 124-148 In Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building. Contributions of Comparative Education to the Understanding of Nations and Nationalism, edited by Daniel Tröhler (as Oxford Studies in Comparative Education series), Routledge.
• Kim, T. (2022) ‘Transnational academic collaboration: a critical analysis of the global and national contexts and constraints of co-authorship' in The International Encyclopaedia of Education Vol. One: Globalization and shifting geopolitics of education (4 th  edition) edited by Fazal Rizvi and Jason Beech, published by Elsevier.
• Kim, T. and Bamberger, A. (2021) Diaspora, Ethnic (inter-)nationalism, and Higher Education: the Korean and Jewish cases of internationalisation as a stateless nation in the early 20th century In British Journal of Educational Studies 69(5) Special Issue: Diaspora and Internationalisation in HE. Edited by Bamberger, A., Terri Kim, Morris, P., Rizvi, F.
• Kim, T. (2021) ‘The positional identities of East Asian mobile academics in UK Higher Education: a comparative analysis of internationalisation and equality and diversity’ Chapter 3, pp. 47-70. In Klerides, E. & Carney, S. (Eds.). Identities and education: Comparative perspectives in times of crisis. London: Bloomsbury (*My CESE Conference paper (May 2018) was selected by the CESE Executive Committee).
• Kim, T. (2020) ‘Diasporic Comparative Education: an Initial Tribute to Anxiety and Hope’ In Comparative Education 56(1), 111-126 Special Issue: Biographies of Comparative Education: Knowledge and Identity on the Move. Edited by Terri Kim.
• Kim, T. and Ng. W. (2019) Ticking the ‘Other’ Box: Positional identities of East Asian academics in UK universities, internationalisation and diversification, Policy Reviews in Higher Education 3(1), 94-119:
• Kim, T. (2017) 'Internationalisation of Higher Education in South Korea: Reality, Rhetoric, and Disparity in Academic Culture and Identities' In The Sage Sociology of Education Volume Three: Equalities and Identities, The Sage Sociology of Education Four Volumes. Edited by Jenny Ozga (University of Oxford) https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sociology-of-education/book247906#contents (Reprint from The Australian Journal of Education 49(1), 2005 
• Kim, T. (2017) Academic mobility, transnational identity capital, and stratification under conditions of academic capitalism, Higher Education 73(6), 981-997: 
• Kim, T. (2016) Internationalisation and Development in East Asian Higher Education: an introduction, Comparative Education 52(1), 1-7. Special Issue: Internationalisation and Development in East Asian Higher Education: Some Excitements and Errors. Edited by Terri Kim. 
• Kim, T. (2014) The intellect, mobility, and epistemic positioning in doing Comparisons and Comparative Education, Comparative Education 50(1), 50 th Anniversary Special Issue, 58-72:
• Kim, T. (2013) The (un)changing relationship between the State and Higher Education in South Korea: some surprising continuities amid transition In Goodman, R., Kariya, T. and Taylor, J. (Eds). The Changing Relationship between the State and Higher Education in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea and the UK, Oxford Studies in Comparative Education Series, Symposium, pp. 235-260.
• Kim, T. (2011) Globalization and Higher Education in South Korea – towards ethnocentric internationalization or global commercialization of higher education? In King, R., Marginson, S. and Naidoo, R. (Eds). Handbook of Globalization and Higher Education, pp. 286-305, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (USA & UK; ISBN: 978 1 84844 585 7).
• Kim, T. (2010) Transnational Academic Mobility, Knowledge and Identity Capital, Discourse 31(5): 577-592. Special Issue: International Academic Mobility, edited by Johannah Fahey and Jane Kenway. 
• Kim, T. (2009) Transnational Academic Mobility, Internationalisation and Interculturality in Higher Education, Intercultural Education 20(5): 395-405. Special Issue: Interculturality and Higher Education. Edited by Terri Kim & Matthias Otten.
• Kim, T. (2009) ‘Shifting patterns of transnational academic mobility: A comparative and historical approach’, Comparative Education 45(3): 387-403 Special Issue: Mobilities and educational metamorphoses: patterns, puzzles, and possibilities, edited by Robert Cowen and Eleftherios. Klerides 
• Kim, T. (2009) Confucianism, Modernities and Knowledge: China, South Korea, and Japan (Chapter 55) In Cowen, R. and Kazamias, A. (Eds). The International Handbook of Comparative Education, Springer, pp. 857-872.

Other Outputs (indicative)

• Kim, T. (2023) ‘Restructuring Universities, EDI and Conformity’, Emerald Publishing opinion and blog, 3 May 2023: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/opinion-and-blog/restructuring-universities-edi-and-conformity-a-view-comparative-distance. Miscellaneous commentary piece.
• Fook, J., Archibong, U., Kim, T. and Aldercotte, A. (2019) ‘Cracking the concrete ceiling: Tracking the impact of the Diversifying Leadership programme’, AdvanceHE, 16 May 2019. https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/cracking-concrete-ceiling-tracking-impact-diversifying-leadership-programme-full. Commissioned research report.
• Kim, T. (2019) ‘East Asian academics in UK embrace idea of being foreign’ University World News, 20 April 2019 https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20190414202658463. Commentary article.
• Kim, T. and Brooks, R. (2013) ‘Internationalisation, Mobile Academics, and Knowledge Creation in Universities: a Comparative Analysis’: https://srhe.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/TerriKimReport.pdf. SRHE Research Award 2011/12 Final Report.
• Kim, T. (2011) ‘EUROPE: Higher education amid financial meltdown’, University World News, 11 December 2011: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20111209194832765.Commentary article.
• Kim, T. and Locke, W. (2010) Transnational academic mobility and the academic profession In CHERI, Higher Education and Society: A Research Report, March 2010, Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI), The Open University, pp.25-34: http://oro.open.ac.uk/21282/1/Higher_Education_and_Society._Chapter_4_-_Transnational_academic_mobility.pdf. CHERI Research report

Web Links

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• ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7237-0682
• Academia.edu: https://hanyang.academia.edu/TerriKim
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