“…Moreover, in various universities, faculties and departments, the proportions of scholars and stakeholders vary with regard to their allegiance to each layer of scientific, educational, or developmental engagement (Jones and Oleksiyenko 2011). Global, national and local connections can be shaped by universities' histories, cultures, and ambitions, which are reinforced through organisational designs and sagas (Hayhoe, Li, Lin, and Zha 2012;Liu and Metcalfe 2016;Oleksiyenko 2015). Given the global mobility of people and ideas, the political spectrum of inquiries and analyses in university courses and projects is unavoidably vast, even as universities themselves are bounded by the discourses and politics that their states, cities and regions may impose on their institutional networks through policy regulations (King, Marginson and Naidoo 2011).…”