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]
The University in Dissent: Scholarship in the corporate university
1st Edition
By Gary Rolfe
December 06, 2012
The rise of corporatism in the North American University was charted by Bill Readings in the mid nineteen-nineties in his book The University in Ruins. The intervening years have seen the corporate university grow and extend to the point where its evolution into a large business corporation is ...
Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The rise of 'Third Space' professionals
1st Edition
By Celia Whitchurch
November 30, 2012
Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals draws on studies conducted in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore the roles and identities of a growing number of staff associated with broadly based institutional projects such as ...
Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities: Global Trends
1st Edition
By Paul Blackmore, Camille B. Kandiko
August 02, 2012
The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders – governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents – express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students. Many universities are reviewing ...
Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education: Renewing the role of the university professor
1st Edition
By Bruce Macfarlane
April 04, 2012
What is ‘intellectual leadership’ and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues that it is important to define and reclaim intellectual leadership as a counter-weight to the prevailing ...