Here, I maintain a bibliography of articles, reports, presentations and book chapters that discuss the idea of a ‘co-operative university’, with a specific focus on co-operative ownership and co-operative governance of higher education institutions. If you know of any other research, please leave a comment or email me. Thank you.
Last updated 1st August 2024
Boden, R. et al (2012) Trust Universities? Governance for Post-Capitalist Futures. Journal of Co-operative Studies, Volume 45, Number 2, Autumn 2012, pp. 16-24(9) (Related slides)
Boden, R. et al (2011) Shopping around for a better way to operate? Try John Lewis. Times Higher Education, 13th January 2011.
Bothwell, Ellie (2016) Plan to ‘recreate public higher education’ in cooperative university, Times Higher Education, 17 August 2016.
Cook, Dan (2013) Realising the Co-operative University. A consultancy report for The Co-operative College.
Cunningham. (1874). Higher Education on Co-operative Principles. In Co-operative Congress Proceedings (pp. 54–55 & 89–90). Presented at the Co-operative Congress, Halifax: The Co-operative College.
Dilger, A 2007, ‘German Universities as State-sponsored Co-operatives‘, Management Revue, 18, 2, pp. 102-116.
Mariona Espinet, German Llerena, Laísa M. Freire dos Santos, S. Lizette, Ramos de Robles & Mariona Massip (2023) Co-operatives for learning in higher education: experiences of undergraduate students from environmental sciences, Teaching in Higher Education, 28:5, 1005-1023.
Findlay, L. (2010). Academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and the co-operative university. In J. Newson & C. Polster (Eds.), Academic callings: The university we have had, now have, and could have (pp. 212-218). Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
Glaser, E. (2017) A cooperative university must ensure high standards. Times Higher Education. 30/11/17
Goodman, J. et al. (2021) What Artists Want, What Artists Need: A Critical History of the Feral Art School, Hull, UK 2018 – Present. The International Journal of Art and Design Education.
Hall, Richard & Winn, Joss (eds.) (2017) Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury.
Hall, Richard & Winn, Joss (2017) Social co-operatives and the democratisation of higher education. The Co-operative Education and Research Conference, 5-6 April 2017, Manchester.
Haubert, Maxime (1986). Adult education and grass-roots organisations in Latin America: The contribution of the International Co-operative University. International Labour Review. 1986, Vol. 125 Issue 2, p177. 16p.
Hudson-Miles, Richard & Goodman, Jackie (2024) Co-operative Education, Politics, and Art: Creative, Critical, and Community Resistance to Corporate Higher Education. Routledge.
James, E. & Neuberger, E. (1981) The University Department as a Non-Profit Labor Cooperative. In: Public Choice, 36: 585-612.
Juby, P. (2011, September 3). A Co-operative University? Conference presentation at the Society for Co-operative Studies Conference, Cardiff.
Kosmaoglou, Sophia (2020) A co-operative art school?
Matthews, David (2014) All together now: higher education and the cooperative model. Times Higher Education. 14th August 2014.
Matthews, David (2013) Inside a co-operative university. Times Higher Education, 29th August 2013.
McLaren, Peter (2021) Critical Pedagogy Manifesto. Teachers of the world unite. DIO Press Inc. New York.
McQuillan, M. (2017) Co-operative challenger rises in Manchester, *Research.
Myers, Jan (2018) Co-operative University: An Antidote to Academic Capitalism? Journal of Co-operati Studies, 51(3), 17-30.
Neary, Mike and Joss Winn (2021) Co-operative Higher Education. Impact Case Study. REF 2021.
Neary, Mike and Joss Winn (2019) Making a Co-operative University: a new form of knowing – not public but social. FORUM, 61 (2). pp. 271-279.
Neary, Mike and Joss Winn (2019) The co-operative university now! In: Learning for a Co-operative World: Education, social change and the Co-operative College. UCL Institute of Education Press, London, pp. 169-186.
Neary, Mike, Katia Valenzuela Fuentes and Joss Winn (2018) Co-operative Leadership for Higher Education. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
Neary, Mike, Katia Valenzuela Fuentes and Joss Winn (2017) Co-operative Leadership and Higher Education: four case studies. The Co-operative Education and Research Conference, 5-6 April 2017, Manchester.
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2017) The Social Science Centre, Lincoln: the theory and practice of a radical idea, Roars Transactions, 5(1) 1-12.
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2017) Beyond Public and Private: A Framework for Co-operative Higher Education. Open Library of Humanities, 3(2): 2, 1–36.
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2017) There is an alternative: A report on an action research project to develop a framework for co-operative higher education, Learning and Teaching. The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 10 (1) 87-105.
Neary, Mike, Simon Parkinson, Cilla Ross and Joss Winn (2016) Co-operative Universities: A chance to re-imagine higher education? Co-operative Party blog, 01/09/2016. See related Co-op Party policy on education (October 2017, p.25)
Neary, Mike (2016) Teaching Excellence Framework: a critical response and an alternative future. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 12 (3) 690-695.
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2016) The University of Utopia, Post-16 Educator, (84) 13-15.
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2016) Beyond public and private: a framework for co-operative higher education. Conference paper.
Neary, Mike and Winn, Joss (2015) Beyond public and private: a model for co-operative higher education. Krisis: Journal for contemporary philosophy.
Noble, Malcolm and Ross, Cilla (2021) From principles to participation: ‘The Statement on the Cooperative Identity’ and Higher Education Co-operatives. Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, 9 (2).
Noble, Malcolm and Ross, Cilla (Eds.) (2019) Reclaiming the University for the Public Good: Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education, Palgrave Macmillan. (14 chapters on Co-op HE)
Noble, Malcolm (2019) Co-operative Higher Education is the Answer: How to Save Adult Education for the Last Time, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21, 1, pp. 139-44.
Perez Ruiz, P. (2015) What is university for?, The Columnist.
Puukka, J. et al (2013) Higher Education in Regional and City Development: Basque Country, Spain. OECD.
Reed, D. (2014). Occupy the University! Leveraging Value Coherence to Engage Higher Education as a Strategic Partner in Cooperative Development. In L. Hammond Ketilson & M. -P. Robichaud Villettaz (under the direction of), Cooperatives’ Power to Innovate: Texts Selected from the International Call for Papers (p.193 – 206). Lévis: International Summit of Cooperatives.
Ridley, David (2017) Institutionalising critical pedagogy: Lessons from against and beyond the neo-liberal university, Power and Education, 9 (1) 65-81.
Ridley-Duff, R. (2011) Co-operative University and Business School: Developing an institutional and educational offer. UK Society for Co-operative Studies.
Ridley-Duff, R. (2012, November 1). Developing Co-operative Universities. Presented at the ICA Expo, Manchester, UK
Saunders, Gary (2020) Re-Imagining the Idea of the University for a Post-Capitalist Society. PhD Thesis, University of Lincoln. See also, the revised published version.
Saunders, Gary (2017) Somewhere Between Reform and Revolution: Alternative Higher Education and ‘The Unfinished’. In: Hall, Richard & Winn, Joss (eds.) (2017) Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury.
Social Science Centre, Lincoln (2017) Making a co-operative university, WonkHE 8th August 2017.
Social Science Centre, Lincoln (2013) An experiment in free, co-operative higher education. Radical Philosophy, No.182.
Somerville, P & Saunders, G. (2013) Beyond Public and Private: the transformation of higher education. Conference paper.
Somerville, P. (2014) Towards co-operative higher education. Presentation at the Department of Politics and Public Policy, De Montfort University, May 7th.
Somerville, P. (2014) Prospects for co-operative higher education. Conference paper for Society of Co-operative Studies, Colchester 6-7th September 2014.
Sperlinger, Tom (2014) Is a co-operative university model a sustainable alternative? Guardian, 26th March, 2014.
Swain, Harriet (2017) Coming soon, a university where students could set their own tuition fees, Guardian, 12th September 2017.
Szadkowski, Krystian (2019) The common in higher education: a conceptual approach. High Education 78, 241–255.
Williamson, Bill (2017) The Co-operative University: Notes towards an achievable ideal.
Wilma van der Veen, E. (2010) The New University Cooperative: Reclaiming Higher Education: Prioritizing Social Justice and Ecological Sustainability, Affinities journal, Vol. 4 No. 1.
Winn, Joss (2014) The co-operative university: labour, property and pedagogy. Governing Academic Life, 25-26 June 2014, London School of Economics.
Winn, Joss (2014) Reimagining the University. Keynote talk for Reimagining the University conference, University of Gloucester. 17-18 October 2014.
Winn, Joss (2014) Social solidarity co-operatives for higher education. Learning Together: Perspectives in Co-operative Education. 9th December 2014, People’s History Museum.
Winn, Joss (2015) The co-operative university: Labour, property and pedagogy. Power and Education, 7 (1).
Winn, Joss (2015) Democratically controlled, co-operative higher education. openDemocracy.
Woodhouse, Howard (2011) Learning for Life: The People’s Free University and the Civil Commons. Studies in Social Justice. Vol. 5, Issue 1, 77-90
Woodin, T; (2019) Useable pasts for a co-operative university: as different as light from darkness? In: Noble, M and Ross, C, (eds.) Reclaiming the University for the Public Good Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education. (pp. 23-43). Palgrave Macmillan
Woodin, Tom (2018) Co-operative approaches to leading and learning: ideas for democratic innovation from the UK and beyond. In L. Gornall, B. Thomas, L. Sweetman (Eds.), Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education Co-operation, Collaboration and Partnership. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
Woodin, Tom (2017) Co-operation, leadership and learning: Fred Hall and the Co-operative College before 1939. In: Hall, Richard & Winn, Joss (eds.) (2017) Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury.
Woodin, Tom (2018) Co-operative Approaches to Leading and Learning: Ideas for Democratic Innovation from the UK and Beyond. In: Gornall, Thomas and Steetman (Eds.) Exploring Consensual Leadership in Higher Education, London: Bloomsbury.
Wright, S. et al (2011) Report on a field visit to Mondragón University: a cooperative experience/experiment. Learning and Teaching. Vol. 4, Issue 3.
Yeo, Stephen (2014) The co-operative university? Transforming higher education. In: Woodin, Tom (Ed.) Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values, London: Routledge.
Reports from Making the Co-operative University conference, 9th November 2017, Manchester.
Hall, R. (2017) In, Against and Beyond the Co-operative University
Macintyre, R. (2017) The Co-op Uni: From Pedagogy to Governance and Back
Nerantzi, C. (2017) What are our big ideas about a #coopuni?
Winn, J. (2017) Making the Co-operative University
Voinea, A. (2017) Setting a vision for a co-operative university.
Elsewhere…
You may also be interested in articles written about the Social Science Centre, a co-operative for higher education in Lincoln.
Dan Cook also maintains a website about Co-operative Universities.
Examples of co-operative higher education
Related research into co-operative schools
Davidge, Gail (2014) For “getting it”: an ethnographic study of co-operative schools. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Manchester Metropolitan University. (see also Davidge’s subsequent book).
Special issue of Forum journal (2013) edited by Tom Woodin: Co-operative education for a new age?
Special issue of the Journal of Co-operative Studies (2011) edited by Maureen Breeze: Co-operation in Education.
Woodin, Tom (Ed.) Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values, London: Routledge.