Routledge Research in Higher Education
About the Book Series
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Disability and Higher Education: Theory-Practice Coherence
1st Edition
By Tim Corcoran, Ben Whitburn
September 04, 2026
This book encourages higher education administrators and educators to think in new ways about how to work inclusively with disabled students and examines the way inherent requirements are used in universities to ensure integrity of their academic courses. With the aim of influencing change in ...
Exploring Communities of Practice in Higher Education: Building an Inclusive University Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Pattinson
July 03, 2026
Exploring how wide-ranging debates have supported, extended, repositioned, or conflicted with the original notion of Communities of Practice (CoPs) as sites of situated learning, this book argues that they can be cultivated and managed in higher education settings to create and support an inclusive...
Onto-Epistemic Educational Injustice in Higher Education: Who Gets to Know, Who Gets to Be
1st Edition
By Michelle Ocriciano
August 06, 2026
Universities shape more than what students know. They shape who students can be and become. This book, therefore, examines how educational systems simultaneously shape knowledge production and ways of being. Drawing from philosophy of education, decolonial thought, social epistemology and Japanese ...
Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education: Aid-Driven Research Co-operation in the Name of Economic Development
1st Edition
By Nelson Masanche Nkhoma
June 22, 2026
Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education explores the emergent and dynamic global model of the aid-driven, research-intensive African university as a potential panacea for national and economic development in rapidly shifting contexts. Anchored in the concept of knowledge diplomacy, the ...
The Harms of Grading in Higher Education: Comparative Institutional Ethnographies of University Assessment Cultures
1st Edition
By Dan Melzer
August 31, 2026
This book examines the impacts of grading in higher education through comparative institutional ethnographies of two universities with radically different approaches to assessment. The Harms of Grading reports the results of institutional ethnographies at University of the Bay, which has an ...
Activism, Burnout, and Community in Higher Education: Narratives of College Student Activists
1st Edition
By Cher Weixia Chen, Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron, Julie E. Owen, Steve Grande
May 22, 2026
This illuminating volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between college student activism and well-being, drawing on a multi-phase study that explores college students’ perspectives on how their activism impacts their well-being. Based on a study of 119 US college students, the authors ...
Developing Feedback Literacy for Academic Journal Peer Review: Narratives from Researchers in Education and Applied Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sin Wang Chong, Aurora Lixinhao Gao
May 22, 2026
This edited volume showcases first-hand accounts of crafting and handling feedback during the peer review process from early career researchers (ECRs), journal editors and experienced reviewers to develop the concept of ‘feedback literacy’ in academic peer review contexts. This novel collection of ...
Exploring Research Impact in Academia and Why It Matters: Perspectives on the Public Good and the Role of Research in Society
1st Edition
By Andy Phippen, Louise Rutt
May 22, 2026
Posing fundamental questions around the worth of knowledge creation and the social value of in-depth research, this volume offers a novel approach by exploring why impact is important in academic research, rather than explaining how it should be conducted. Using qualitative data to unpack what ...
Learning Analytics for Achieving Quality Assurance in Higher Learning Institutions: Malaysian Perspectives for Global Insights
1st Edition
By Soo Mang Lim, Husaina Banu Kenayathulla
May 22, 2026
This book explores Learning Analytics (LA) programmes and practices in Malaysia as well as looking at the underlying forces, dilemmas and policy challenges for quality assurance in higher education institutions (HEIs). This chapters provide a comprehensive discussion of trends in academic quality ...
Philosophical Adventures in African Higher Education: Cultivating Doctoral Encounters within Democratic Citizenship Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Yusef Waghid
May 22, 2026
This seminal volume delves into some of the doctoral research and pedagogical experiences within an African higher education context, making a case for the transformative potential of education and the integration of African indigenous philosophies into global educational practices. Through a ...
Revolutionizing Women’s Education at the University of Oxford: Single-Sex Colleges and Identity Theory, 1870-2022
1st Edition
By Dennis A. Ahlburg
May 22, 2026
This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how women were kept at the periphery of the university and how Oxford responded to the growing demand for women’s higher education. The book further examines how the ...
Visioning Higher Education for Contemporary Global Challenges: In Pursuit of Well-being, Social Justice, and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Peter H. Koehn, Phyllis Bo-yuen Ngai, Juha I. Uitto
May 22, 2026
Visioning presents a roadmap for university leaders to vitalize higher education in response to global problems. It addresses structural, programmatic, and curricular gaps in ways designed to prepare current and future generations for unfolding socio-ecological challenges. The book introduces ...