Nigel Healey


Nigel Healey is a British-New Zealand academic in management and higher education. His current research interests are in the internationalization of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management.

Career

Dr Nigel Healey was Professor of International Higher Education and Vice-President of Global and Community Engagement at the University of Limerick until his retirement in October 2024. During his time at the University of Limerick, he served as Interim Provost and Deputy President during the COVID-19 pandemic from September 2020 to June 2022, returning to his substantive position in July 2022. Prior to his appointment at the University of Limerick in April 2020, Healey held senior academic positions at Fiji National University, Nottingham Trent University, the University of Canterbury and Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as teaching positions at the University of Leicester, Leeds Beckett University and the University of Northampton. He has been a visiting professor at,,,, and .
Healey has served as an economic policy advisor to the prime minister of Belarus and the deputy minister of economy of the Russian Federation and managed a number of multinational research and economic development projects in different parts of the world. His current research interests are in the internationalisation of higher education, transnational education and higher education policy and management. Earlier in his career, he was the author and/or editor of a number of books on macroeconomic and monetary policy.
He is chair of the which organises international higher education summits around the world each year, including the,, the and the . Until his retirement in October 2024, he was institutional coordinator of the and a member of the advisory board of the . Healey has previously served terms as a director of the in Ireland, governor of, a member of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the board of trustees for the and the Council of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, a director of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management and the and a member of the National Management Committee for the Chartered Management Institute and Universities New Zealand Committee on International Policy.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and the and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Education

Healey holds a BA Economics from the University of Nottingham, an MA Economics from the University of Leeds, an MBA from the University of Warwick, a DBA in Higher Education Management from the University of Bath and a PhD in management from Nottingham Trent University.

Recent papers and reports

  • Healey, N. and Hickey, R.. . Journal of Studies in International Education, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10283153251356217
  • Hickey, R. and Healey, N.. . Higher Education Quarterly, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12522
  • Healey, N., Hunter, F. and Lewis, V.. Bath Business and Society.
  • Healey, N.. . Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2023.2217780
  • Ilieva, J., Healey, N., Tsiligiris, V., Ziguras, C., Killingley, P. and Lawton, W.. . British Council.
  • Healey, N.. THE Campus, 10 August.
  • Covington, R., Healey, N., Jones, A. and Trifiro, F.. . Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office.
  • Healey, N.. . Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2022.2041255
  • Healey, N.. . Higher Education Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12371
  • Healey, N.. . Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2019.1631227
  • Healey, N.., International Journal of Educational Management, 32, 241–256.
  • Healey, N.. The optimal global integration – local responsiveness trade-off for an international branch campus. Research in Higher Education, 59, 623–649.
  • Healey, N.. . Pacific-Asian Education, 29, 57–74.
  • Healey, N.. . Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 21, 119–128.
  • Healey, N.. Reflections on the value of insider research as a qualitative research methodology. SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526401489
  • Healey, N.,, Higher Education Quarterly, 69, 386–409.
  • Healey, N.,, Journal of Studies in International Education, 20, 61–78.
  • Healey, N., International Higher Education, 78, 22–23
  • Healey, N. and Bordogna, C., . Internationalisation of Higher Education, 3, 34–56
  • Healey, N. and Michael, L.,, Higher Education Policy, 28, 369–391.
  • Healey, N.,, Higher Education, 69, 1–18.
  • Healey, N.,, Higher Education Review, 45, 6–35
  • Healey, N., ?, Higher Education Quarterly, 67, 180–200
  • Healey, N. and Gunby, P.,, Journal of Education Leadership, Policy and Policy, 27, 29–45
  • Gunby, P. and Healey, N.,, in The impact of economic crisis on higher education, UNESCO, 87–100
  • Healey, N.,, Journal of Management and Organization, 17, 850–856
  • Healey, N., ?, Higher Education, 55, 333–355