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
Exploring Communities of Practice in Higher Education: Building an Inclusive University Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Pattinson
August 30, 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...
The Harms of Grading in Higher Education: Comparative Institutional Ethnographies of University Assessment Cultures
1st Edition
By Dan Melzer
June 19, 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 ...
Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education: Aid-driven Research Co-operation in the Name of Economic Development
1st Edition
By Nelson Masanche Nkhoma
June 08, 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 ...
Authoritarianism, Resistance, and the Future of Democratic Education in South Africa: The University Betrayed
1st Edition
By Yusef Waghid
March 26, 2026
Through a fusion of autoethnography and critical theory, this bold, cutting-edge volume examines how South African universities, instead of fulfilling their post-apartheid promise of democratic transformation, have become sites of bureaucratic control, epistemic erasure, and neoliberal ...
Fieldnotes from the Edges of Higher Arts Education: Intra-active Pedagogies for Urgent Times
1st Edition
Edited
By Annouchka Bayley
February 26, 2026
This volume explores emergent practices in higher education pedagogy that use the arts, new materialisms, posthumanisms, and radical pedagogies to intra-actively reconfigure approaches to transdisciplinary learning and teaching. Against the backdrop of AI acceleration, pandemic responsiveness, ...
Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education in Southern Africa: Exploring Strategies, Innovations and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Francis Machingura, Shamiso Christine Madzivire
February 19, 2026
Arguing for a holistic approach to student support, this book explores how to better serve students in African settings through the services and programmes offered at universities, providing empirical studies, case studies and theoretical explorations from four Southern African countries. ...
Open Science and the Future of Education: A Global Manifesto for Open Solutions Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
1st Edition
Edited
By María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya, Inés Alvarez Icaza Longoria
February 18, 2026
Open Science and the Future of Education emphasizes the crucial role of collaboration in generating new solutions for education through open science. A manifesto for future global collaboration, the contributors to this volume set out a path forward for education innovation across four essential ...
Experiential Learning and Community Partnerships for Sustainable Development: A Foundational Model for Climate Action
1st Edition
By Mara Huber, Michael Jabot, Christina Heath
December 26, 2025
This book addresses the growing demand for applied experiences that move students beyond learning into the realm of doing by supporting the development of skills and competencies that align with emerging areas of innovation and work. It considers the urgent need to promote and invest in skills that...
The Layered Landscape of Higher Education: Capturing Curriculum, Diversity, and Cultures of Learning in Australia
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Kumar, Supriya Pattanayak, Nish Belford
December 26, 2025
This edited collection interrogates notions of curriculum, inclusivity, diversity, and cultures of learning in higher education from a variety of cultural backgrounds and educational perspectives. Bringing together an international selection of contributors from a range of disciplines, this book ...
Authority, Passion, and Subject-Centered Teaching: A Christian Pedagogical Philosophy
1st Edition
By Christopher J. Richmann
December 25, 2025
This book asserts that authority is a contested category and explores why traditional notions of authority are increasingly in tension with progressive and postmodern claims, devolving into stalemate, schizophrenia, or power plays. Offering a Christian framework as a philosophically ...
Mindfulness and Contemplative Interaction for Higher Education: Reflections on Transformative Learning and Connectedness
1st Edition
By David N. Sable
December 16, 2025
This book situates mindfulness and contemplative interaction at the heart of transformative learning for a more sustainable and compassionate world. Drawing on a mixed-methods study of a specific set of reflective learning activities introduced to undergraduates in Canada, the book highlights the ...
Advancing School-University Partnerships and Professional Development Schools through National Research: Revitalized Perspectives for Social Justice, Equity, Growth and Inclusivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph R. Feinberg, Susan L. Ogletree
November 27, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive guide to the impact of professional development schools and school–university partnerships (PDSs-SUPs), articulating both the major issues that confront PDSs-SUPs and the various research methods shaping the field. Stemming from a national PDS research conference ...