2nd CHELPS Conference

CHELPS 2^nd Annual Conference: Global Higher Education Reimagined:
New Perspectives and Opportunities

About the Conference

Global higher education has stimulated the development of new international programmes, partnerships and mobility schemes, and thus created amazing opportunities for innovation and learning across cultures and contexts over the past few decades. However, the recent structural and epistemic transformations caused by geopolitics, technological changes, and competition, raised significant concerns about the future of the field. Is the future of global higher education sustainable? What effects do the challenges of geopolitics, competition, and nationalism create for cross-border learning and collaborations? How can scholars and practitioners in the domain of global higher education confront these challenges to develop new strategies for research, teaching and learning? What can the new generations of professionals in the field learn from the transformations of the recent decades? This conference will bring together prominent scholars, students and professional stakeholders to discuss the trends, challenges and prospects of global higher education.

Call for Papers - Conference Sub-themes

We welcome abstract submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• International student mobility, precisely international student recruitment and admission
• Internationalising the curriculum in the Anglophone-dominated knowledge systems
• Managing international and interdisciplinary research partnerships in the new age of geopolitics, competition and technological disruptions

Submission of Proposals

We welcome proposals for academics, scholars, researchers, educators, graduate students, policymakers and practitioners whose work relate to the conference theme.

Interested scholars are welcome to submit a 300-word abstract.

Please submit paper and poster proposals to chelps@eduhk.hk.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline : 5 September 2026

Notification of abstract acceptance : 28 September 2026

Early bird registration and payment : 28 Sep - 15 Oct 2026

Regular registration and payment : 16 - 31 Oct 2026

Conference dates : 27-28 November 2026

Event Key Details

Venue: North Point Study Centre, The Education University of Hong Kong, 19 Cheung Hong Street, North Point, Hong Kong SAR 

Registration

Registration will open on 28 Sep 2026.

*fees deposited are non-refundable.