Articles
Hansen, M. (2025) Thinking with and between social orders: Corporate embedded colleges and their public rivals. Higher Education 91, 245–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01415-1
Hansen, M., & Carrigan, M. (2025). A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2025.2519488
Van den Bossche, A., Brankovic, J., & Hansen, M. (2025). ‘Rankings are all bullsh*t anyway, why not do my own?’: Vloggers and genre remediation. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251316795
Hansen, M. (2025). Corporatization and Mission in Higher Education. International Higher Education, (125). https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2025.125.21001
Birch, K., Komljenovic, J., Sellar, S., & Hansen, M. (2025). Data as asset, data as rent? Rentiership practices in EdTech startups. Learning, Media and Technology, 50(1), 15–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2024.2405850
Hansen, M. (2024). From attention economy to cognitive lock-ins. Big Data & Society, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241275878
Hansen, M. (2024). The market for corporate embedded colleges in England: a history in three stages. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2024.2341096
Martini, M., Moscovitz, H., Fernández Ugalde, R., Hansen, M., Hughson, T., Marfán, J., & Tozan, O. (2024). In search of a global community: a multivocal critique of UNESCO’s education commons discourse. Journal of Education Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2024.2339914
Komljenovic, J., Birch, K., Sellar, S., Bergviken Rensfeldt, A., Deville, J., Eaton, C., … Williamson, B. (2025). Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 46(2), 276–292. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2024.2408397
Hansen, M., & Komljenovic, J. (2023). Automating Learning Situations in EdTech: Techno-Commercial Logic of Assetisation. Postdigital Science and Education 5, 100–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00359-4
Hansen, M., & Van den Bossche, A. (2022) From newspaper supplement to data company: Tracking rhetorical change in the Times Higher Education’s rankings coverage. Poetics, 92, 101637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101637 | Preprint (no paywall)
Book chapters
Komljenovic J, Sellar S, Birch K, Hansen M (2024). Assetization of higher education’s digital disruption. World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalization of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence edited by Williamson B, Komljenovic J, Gulson K.
Book reviews
Hansen, M. (2025) An ed-tech tragedy? Educational technologies and school closures in the time of COVID-19. International Review of Education. 71, 723–729. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-025-10152-7 | Preprint (no paywall)
Hansen, M. (2025) The crises of US higher education: an outlier or a bellwether for what lies ahead? Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01582-1 | Preprint (no paywall)
Hansen, M. (2023) “Callon’s Ode to Markets” by Michel Callon (Princeton University Press, 2021). Organisational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406231181695
Hansen, M. (2018) “Higher education institutions in the EU: between competition and public service” by Andrea Gideon (Springer, 2017). Journal of Education Policy, 33(6), 866–867. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2018.1454294
Public writing
Hansen M (2025) Private international foundation courses, and what they say about university leadership. Society for Research into Higher Education Blog. https://srheblog.com/2025/05/06/private-international-foundation-courses-and-what-they-say-about-university-leadership/
Hansen M (2025) How Genre Work Can Shift Evaluations. King’s College London Digital Humanities blog. https://kingsdh.net/2025/02/24/how-genre-work-can-shift-evaluations/
Brankovic J, Van den Bossche A, Hansen M (2025) What student vloggers can teach us about evaluating universities. LSE impact blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/26/what-student-vloggers-teach-us-about-university-rankings/
Komljenovic J, Hansen M, Sellar S, Birch K (2024). Edtech in Higher Education: Empirical Findings from the Project ‘Universities and Unicorns: Building Digital Assets in the Higher Education Industry’. Centre for Global Higher Education, University of Oxford. https://www.researchcghe.org/perch/resources/special-reportapril-2024.pdf
Hansen M (2023) Pockets of humanity in a world of automated research writing [reprint]. LSE impact blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/12/12/pockets-of-humanity-in-a-world-of-automated-research-writing/
Hansen M (2023) Pockets of humanity in an automated world: reflections from a teacher. King’s College London Digital Humanities blog. https://kingsdh.net/author/morten-hansen/
Hansen M (2023) Digital Education and Automation. Knowledge Power Politics (Cambridge University). https://kppcam.net/2023/01/02/digital-education-and-automation/
Hansen M (2022) Understanding the value of edtech in higher education. University World News. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220114101726144
Hansen M & Van den Bossche A (2022) Times Higher Education is expanding, but what is it becoming? LSE impact blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/02/10/times-higher-education-is-expanding-but-what-is-it-becoming/
Hansen M (2022) Building education assets, one crumb at a time. Post Pandemic University.
https://postpandemicuniversity.net/2022/03/20/building-education-assets-one-crumb-at-a-time/
Hansen M (2019) Managing secrets in higher education. LSE impact blog.https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/11/13/managing-secrets-in-higher-education/
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