Created on: 18 Feb 2026 | Last modified: 10 Mar 2026
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Andrew McGettigan is a financial and policy analyst specialising in UK higher education. He is the author of The Great University Gamble: money, markets & the future of higher education (Pluto, 2013). His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer and London Review of Books, though his recent work has consisted almost entirely of confidential reports for trade unions. Blog: https://andrewmcgettigan.org/ @amcgettigan on BlueSky |
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Yvonne Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Law and LLB Director at the University of Dundee. She was formerly a solicitor working in two large Scottish firms. Her specialism is Scottish trusts, charities and tax law. She regularly writes on these subjects and presents CPD sessions. She is currently Chair of the Independent Fundraising Standards & Adjudication Panel for Scotland, which oversees fundraising standards to ensure that charitable giving is legal, open, honest and respectful. Yvonne also chairs the Law Society of Scotland's Exam Board and has an interest in social mobility in the legal profession. |
Terrence Karran is an Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy in the School of Education and Journalism at the University of Lincoln. In a series of empirical research papers from 2007 onwards, he pioneered the application of comparative metrics to measure de jure (constitutional/legal) and de facto (normative) levels of academic freedom in the European states.
Further statistical analyses of UK universities established a positive link between the strength of academic freedom at the institutional level and the positions of universities within world university ranking tables.
More recent publications have focussed on critically analysing the validity of a Nordic model of academic freedom, evaluating the growing impact of digital governance on academic freedom in U.K. universities, and assessing the role of the American Association of University Professors in protecting academic freedom from attacks by the Trump administration.
Chavan Kissoon's research explores academic freedom in the context of the contemporary UK HE sector; the role of educational data governance in higher education performance management; and working students and their experiences of social mobility.
In the last two years, his research has featured in Le Monde, Wonkhe, Times Higher Education, World University News, in a United Nations report and in an APPG report.
