Jonathan Harle
Director of Programmes
Jon is responsible for developing INASP’s programme strategy and for the overall delivery of INASP’s projects to support research and knowledge system in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Jon has worked at the intersections of research capacity, higher education and international development for the last 18 years. He was director of the DFID/FCDO-funded Transforming Employability for Social Change in East Africa (TESCEA) project, and previously led INASP’s Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems (SRKS) programme.
Before joining INASP, Jon spent six years with the Association of Commonwealth Universities, developing and managing research capacity initiatives. Jon has advised bilateral and multilateral development agencies on research capacity and higher education issues and been part of several programme evaluation teams.
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Key skills and expertise:
- Programme strategy and management
- Project design and development
- Partnership development and management
- Financial management
- Team and programme leadership
- Research and analysis
- Higher education and development
- Research and knowledge systems
- Capacity development
Selected publications:
- Partners are needed to meet the demand for mentoring at scale
- Collaboratively reimagining teaching and learning in East Africa
- Research Publishing Is an Under-Recognised Global Challenge: Opportunities for the G20 to Act
- Navigating challenges and aspirations: how to support early career researchers
- Digital learning is no panacea, but there’s a lot it can do
- Digital Technology in Capacity Development: Enabling Learning and Supporting Change (Introduction and Setting the Scene)
- Innovative teaching is happening – often unsupported
- Creating digital content and delivering digital learning in African universities
- Putting teachers at the centre of HE transformation
- University rankings should measure what we truly value
- New thinking to tackle the teaching challenge in East African higher education
- Open Access: challenges and opportunities for Low- and Middle-Income Countries and the potential impact of UK policy
- Cracks in the knowledge system: whose knowledge is valued in a pandemic and beyond?
- (In)equitable knowledge systems: before, during and beyond a pandemic
- Transforming core skills in university curricula
- The Experiences and Needs of African Doctoral Students: Current Conditions and Future Support
- Dazzled by digital? Research environments in African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources
- Strengthening research in African universities: reflections on policy, partnerships and politics
- Foundations for the Future: Supporting the early careers of African researchers
- Growing Knowledge: Access to Research in East and Southern African Universities
- The Nairobi Report: Frameworks for Africa – UK Collaboration in the Social Sciences and Humanities
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