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
The Experience of ‘Defending’ the Doctoral Dissertation: International Comparative Studies of the Final Oral Examination
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Byram, Maria Stoicheva
March 24, 2025
This volume describes, compares, and analyses the experience of ‘defending’ the doctoral dissertation in a final oral examination in universities and traditions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond. Forming the basis for a comparative study of the different traditions, 11 case ...
Philosophical, Educational, and Moral Openings in Doctoral Pursuits and Supervision: Promoting the Values of Wonder, Wander, and Whisper in African Higher Education
1st Edition
By Yusef Waghid
March 13, 2025
This timely volume conceptualises and applies the philosophical notions of wonder, wander, and whisper, serving as evaluative paradigms for objective assessment of quality doctoral research work and supervision in South African higher education. Written by one of the foremost academics in the field...
Universities in Times of Crisis and Disruption: Dislocated Complexity
1st Edition
By Lorraine Ling, Kay Livingston
January 30, 2025
This book examines the role and future of universities in times of chronic disruption and crisis – presented via an original conceptual framework which the authors term ‘Dislocated Complexity’ – and discusses how to move forward in the face of severely disrupted social, political, economic and ...
Emancipatory Human Rights and the University: Promoting Social Justice in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Felisa Tibbitts, André Keet
December 19, 2024
This volume explores the application of human rights to higher education through a critical lens. Combining theoretical and applied perspectives, it asks what a human rights framework grounded in liberation and justice can offer to ways of working and teaching practices in higher education. Human ...
The Evolving Nature of Universities: What Shapes and Influences Identity in International Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Lamie, Christopher Hill
December 19, 2024
Using analysis and review of international case studies and emerging models, Lamie and Hill’s edited book explores the very nature of a university and discusses growth, sustainability, and risk as universities navigate their role, value and purpose. As universities continue to emerge from the ...
Accommodating Marginalized Students in Higher Education: A Structural Theory Approach
1st Edition
By WP Wahl, Louis H. Falik
November 29, 2024
This book defines and examines the needs of the marginalized student and presents a theoretically grounded model to guide institutions of higher education toward developing new and more effective programmatic responses. Taking the implementational experience of the University of the Free State (...
Doctoral Research Supervision, Pedagogy and the PhD: Forged in Fire?
1st Edition
By Bill Green, Catherine Manathunga, Alison Lee
November 29, 2024
The book brings together for the first time a range of integrated essays produced out of a programme of research and scholarship designed to better understand advanced-level research supervision as pedagogy.Doctoral Research Supervision, Pedagogy and the PhD questions the traditions of how doctoral...
A Conversation Analytic Approach to Doctoral Supervision: Feedback, Advice, and Guidance
1st Edition
By Binh Thanh Ta
October 09, 2024
This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors’ and students’ conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision. In a field that has predominantly drawn on surveys and ...
Arts Methods for the Self-Representation of Undergraduate Students: Sensory Transitions into University Cultures
1st Edition
By Miranda Matthews
October 09, 2024
This timely book explores the transitional experiences of undergraduates in minority groups studying at university and how arts methods and practices can play an important role in facilitating these transitions. Based on research from UK universities, this volume is the first to draw together the ...
Representations of the Academic: Challenging Assumptions in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean McNiff
October 09, 2024
This thoughtful volume challenges widely accepted, traditionalist scientific notions of ‘the academic’ – prevalent in higher education institutions globally – in order to promote best practice, and redefine the field as accessible, inclusive and forward thinking. This book situates itself away ...
Engaging Faculty in Group-Level Change for Institutional Transformation: Disrupting Inequity and Building Inclusive Academic Departments
1st Edition
By J. Kasi Jackson, Amena O. Anderson, Lisa M. Dilks, Maja Husar Holmes, Christine E. Kunkle, James J. Nolan, Melissa Latimer
October 08, 2024
Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress. This book describes an effective model for institutional transformation which is uniquely grounded in group-level processes. Efforts at institutional transformation continue to center individual actors. ...
How Organisational Change Influences Academic Work: The Academic Predicament Model for a Conducive Work Environment
1st Edition
By Sureetha De Silva, Donna Pendergast, Christopher Klopper
August 26, 2024
Higher education institutions around the globe are facing complex issues that disrupt the usual roles and purposes of centres of learning and research. Forces such as globalisation, burgeoning knowledge-based economies, rapid adoption of new technology, and global competition are changing the work ...