CHERPE - Cuban Higher Education Reform: A Policy Ethnography

CHERPE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral-funded project (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 / GA ID: 101109918).

Overview

The project encompasses several reforms implemented in Cuban higher education as a large-scale process of social transformation. CHERPE comes to enlarge the higher education field, examining how stakeholders implement those reforms on the ground by translating policy documents into practices and relationships or how policy documents shape universities, organisational cultures, people's identities, and power relationships.

This study takes an anthropology of policy perspective and uses interdisciplinary research methods to approach Cuban higher education. It includes ethnographic fieldwork in Cuba to describe policies from a grounded view.

CHERPE was hosted by the Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF) at Aarhus University, in Denmark.

Project Timeline

Throughout the project, research activities were complemented by continuous networking and professional development. These ongoing engagements played a key role in enhancing the quality and impact of the work.

Dissemination Activities

Throughout the project, research activities were complemented by continuous networking and professional development. These ongoing engagements played a key role in enhancing the quality and impact of the work.

On being a social scientist between institutional demands and day-to-day endeavors. An ethnography at a Cuban university.

World Anthropological Union (WAU) - Congress 2024.

Universalização do ensino superior em Cuba (2001-2010). Salvamentos, re-marginalização e oportunidades no caminho à profissão.

Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Entre exigencias institucionales y el quehacer cotidiano: una etnografía de las prácticas de ciencia y técnica en la Universidad de Holguín.

Our Team

Meet the dedicated professionals behind the CHERPE project.

Alexander Cordoves

Principal Investigator
Marie Curie Postdoc Researcher

Susan Wright

Supervisor

CHERPE - Cuban Higher Education Reform: A Policy Ethnography

CHERPE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral-funded project (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 / GA ID: 101109918).

Overview

Project Timeline

Throughout the project, research activities were complemented by continuous networking and professional development. These ongoing engagements played a key role in enhancing the quality and impact of the work.

Kick Off and Settle In

Literature Review and Fieldwork Planning

Fieldwork in Cuba

Data Analysis

Work in Progress

Further Dissemination and Transfer of Knowledge

Dissemination Activities

Throughout the project, research activities were complemented by continuous networking and professional development. These ongoing engagements played a key role in enhancing the quality and impact of the work.

On being a social scientist between institutional demands and day-to-day endeavors. An ethnography at a Cuban university.

Universalização do ensino superior em Cuba (2001-2010). Salvamentos, re-marginalização e oportunidades no caminho à profissão.

Entre exigencias institucionales y el quehacer cotidiano: una etnografía de las prácticas de ciencia y técnica en la Universidad de Holguín.

Our Team

Alexander Cordoves

Susan Wright

Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

CHERPE - Cuban Higher Education Reform: A Policy Ethnography

CHERPE is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral-funded project (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01 / GA ID: 101109918).

Overview

Project Timeline

Throughout the project, research activities were complemented by continuous networking and professional development. These ongoing engagements played a key role in enhancing the quality and impact of the work.

Kick Off and Settle In​

Literature Review and Fieldwork Planning

Fieldwork in Cuba

Data Analysis

Work in Progress

Further Dissemination and Transfer of Knowledge

Dissemination Activities

Throughout the project, research activities were complemented by continuous networking and professional development. These ongoing engagements played a key role in enhancing the quality and impact of the work.

On being a social scientist between institutional demands and day-to-day endeavors. An ethnography at a Cuban university.

Universalização do ensino superior em Cuba (2001-2010). Salvamentos, re-marginalização e oportunidades no caminho à profissão.

Entre exigencias institucionales y el quehacer cotidiano: una etnografía de las prácticas de ciencia y técnica en la Universidad de Holguín.

Our Team

Alexander Cordoves

Susan Wright

Kick Off and Settle In