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
Investigating Corruption and White-collar Crime in South African Higher Education: A Critical Evaluation of Policies, Systems, and Structures
1st Edition
By Bethuel Sibongiseni Ngcamu
October 16, 2025
Using an interpretivist approach, this qualitative volume interrogates instances of corruption and white-collar crime prevalent in South African higher education institutions, and suggests pathways for the proactive detection and prevention of corrupt practices. Contextualizing the ...
Identity Construction as a Spatiotemporal Phenomenon within Doctoral Students' Intellectual and Academic Identities: Contradictions, Contestations and Convergences
1st Edition
By Rudo F. Hwami
September 29, 2025
Investigating the interplay between space, time and identity construction, this book brings to focus how spatiality and temporality have been largely overlooked in the study and theorisation of identity construction. Offering Gloria Anzaldúa concept of ‘conocimento’ as a theoretical tool for ...
Global South-North Dichotomies in Higher Education: Critical Dialogue, Reflection and Collaboration
1st Edition
Edited
By Vander Tavares
September 26, 2025
Revisiting foundational concepts and practices that have long sustained global divisions and hierarchies, this seminal volume challenges Global South-North dichotomies in higher education by exploring the possibilities and limitations of such socio-political dichotomies from multiple perspectives. ...
Proofreading and Editing in Student and Research Publication Contexts: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Harwood
July 31, 2025
This book explores proofreading and editing from a variety of research and practitioner-led perspectives to describe, debate, and interrogate roles and policies within the student and research publication context. Chapters feature a wide range of empirical research findings gathered from an ...
An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui
July 30, 2025
This edited volume illustrates the idea of a successful research capacity model, critically addressing preconceived notions of early career research projects’ impact and drawing together insights and implications around the encouragement of newer researchers to conduct useful, robust studies with ...
Street-Level Bureaucracy in Instructional Design: Perspectives on Professional Identity and Institutional Culture in Higher Education
1st Edition
By Nirupama Akella
July 30, 2025
This book explores the role and function of instructional designers in higher education, highlighting the real-world discrepancy between their actual contributions to organizational growth and the official job descriptions provided by universities. Investigating how higher education professionals ...
Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Contemporary Understandings of Title IX
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine L. Riley, Katie B. Garner
June 27, 2025
This volume brings together interdisciplinary research, theoretical perspectives, and detailed explanations of examples to help colleges become supportive spaces for pregnant and parenting students. Expanding the discourse around pregnant and parenting college students to a more interdisciplinary ...
The Development of Professional Identity in Higher Education: Continuing and Advancing Professionalism
1st Edition
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By Myint Swe Khine, Abdulghani Muthanna
June 27, 2025
In this book, first-hand accounts from academics and practitioners explore the concept of "professional identity development" in the context of higher education and provide guidance to develop and enhance professionalism. The Development of Professional Identity in Higher Education presents a new ...
Developing a Model for Culturally Responsive Experiential Education: Teachers as Allies in Student Journeys of Decolonization
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Laura Yomantas
May 05, 2025
This book provides a new, empirically informed framework designed to equip higher education faculty with the tools to help students engage in humanizing, mutually beneficial, and anti-colonial experiential education alongside other students and communities around the world. The author maps the ...
Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education: Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom
1st Edition
By Carmen Bueno Muñoz, Núria Hernández Nanclares, Luis R. Murillo Zamorano, José Ángel López Sánchez
May 05, 2025
This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education, examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation, engagement, and participation among students. Using two in-depth examples, the authors show that the introduction of a ...
Internships, High-Impact Practices, and Provocative Praxis in Higher Education: A Social Justice Framework Based on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
1st Edition
By Beth Manke, Bonnie Gasior, Michelle Chang
May 05, 2025
This authored text critically examines the theory and practice of college internship programs grounded in equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) to examine issues such as infrastructure, inclusion, and privilege through "provocative praxis," a form of provocative inquiry that drives the ...
The Role of University Governing Boards in Canadian Higher Education: Sociological Perspectives on the Form and Functioning of Boards
1st Edition
By Dominik Antonowicz, Glen A. Jones
April 13, 2025
This book explores the historical and social foundations of Canadian higher education and provides a detailed analysis of university boards within this broader context of university governance. By examining rich empirical data from a sociological perspective, it offers unique insights into the role...