Research into Higher Education: Co-published with the Society for Research into Higher Education
About the Book Series
This exciting series publishes cutting edge research and discourse addressing contemporary themes in higher education of wide international relevance. The series examines all aspects of the international higher education research agenda, from strategic policy formulation and impact to pragmatic advice on best practice in the field.
For more information, or to express an interest in writing for the series, please contact Sarah Hyde, [email protected]
Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Leibowitz, Vivienne Bozalek, Peter Kahn
October 26, 2016
Theorising Learning to Teach in Higher Education provides both lecturers embarking on a career in higher education and established members of staff with the capacity to improve their teaching. The process of learning to teach, and the associated field of professional academic development for ...
Student Politics and Protest: International perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Brooks
October 25, 2016
Despite allegations of political disengagement and apathy on the part of the young, the last ten years have witnessed a considerable degree of political activity by young people – much of it led by students or directed at changes to the higher education system. Such activity has been evident across...
Freedom to Learn: The threat to student academic freedom and why it needs to be reclaimed
1st Edition
By Bruce Macfarlane
September 01, 2016
The freedom of students to learn at university is being eroded by a performative culture that fails to respect their rights to engage and develop as autonomous adults. Instead, students are being restricted in how they learn, when they learn and what they learn by the so-called student engagement ...
Researching Higher Education: International perspectives on theory, policy and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer M. Case, Jeroen Huisman
November 04, 2015
Research on higher education has yielded many insights that have improved our theoretical and practical understanding but there are still many themes that continue to appear on research agendas, provoking renewed focus on these complex questions and problems. Researching Higher Education explores ...
Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures: Degrees of class
1st Edition
By Ciaran Burke
September 03, 2015
In a time of too many graduates for too few jobs, and in a context where applicants have similar levels of educational capital, what other factors influence graduate career trajectories? Based on the life history interviews of graduates and framed through a Bourdieusian sociological lens, Culture, ...
Stepping up to the Second Year at University: Academic, psychological and social dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Clare Milsom, Martyn Stewart, Mantz Yorke, Elena Zaitseva
December 04, 2014
Programmes in higher education tend to focus attention on the student’s first year (because of concerns about student transition and retention) and on their final year (because of student exiting for their future careers). The middle year(s) of programmes receive relatively little attention which ...
Writing in Social Spaces: A social processes approach to academic writing
1st Edition
By Rowena Murray
August 20, 2014
Writing in Social Spaces addresses the problem of making time and space for writing in academic life and work of the professionals and practitioners who do academic writing'. Even those who want to write, who know how to write well and who have quality publications, report that they cannot find ...
Digital Technology and the Contemporary University: Degrees of digitization
1st Edition
By Neil Selwyn
May 13, 2014
Digital Technology and the Contemporary University examines the often messy realities of higher education in the ‘digital age’. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, the book explores the intimate links between digital technology and wider shifts within contemporary ...
Researching Student Learning in Higher Education: A social realist approach
1st Edition
By Jennifer M. Case
October 10, 2013
Many contemporary concerns in higher education focus on the student experience of learning.With a larger and much more diverse intake than ever before, linked with a declining unit of resource, questions are being asked afresh around the purposes of higher education. Although much of the debate is ...
Women Leaders in Higher Education: Shattering the myths
1st Edition
By Tanya Fitzgerald
October 07, 2013
Leadership in universities is physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding work. It involves multiple and complex tasks and responsibilities such as staff management, strategic management, operational planning, financial and resources management, policy development, quality assurance ...
Literacy in the Digital University: Critical perspectives on learning, scholarship and technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Goodfellow, Mary R. Lea
September 24, 2013
Literacy in the Digital University is an innovative volume bringing together perspectives from two fields of enquiry and practice: ‘literacies and learning’ and ‘learning technologies’. With their own histories and trajectories, these fields have seldom overlapped either in practice, theory, or ...
Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education
1st Edition
By Roger Brown, Helen Carasso
March 25, 2013
The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being introduced or increased, usually at the expense of state grants to institutions. Grants for student support are being replaced ...