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]
Freedom to Learn: The threat to student academic freedom and why it needs to be reclaimed
1st Edition
By Bruce Macfarlane
August 24, 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
October 27, 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 01, 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 01, 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 26, 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 15, 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
August 09, 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
August 21, 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
July 26, 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
February 04, 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 ...
The University in Dissent: Scholarship in the corporate university
1st Edition
By Gary Rolfe
October 31, 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
October 19, 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 ...