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 Harms of Grading in Higher Education: Comparative Institutional Ethnographies of University Assessment Cultures
1st Edition
By Dan Melzer
June 18, 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 ...
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 ...
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 21, 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 ...
Revolutionizing Women’s Education at the University of Oxford: Single-Sex Colleges and Identity Theory, 1870-2022
1st Edition
By Dennis A. Ahlburg
May 21, 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 ...
Understanding the Work of Student Affairs Professionals at Minority Serving Institutions: Effective Practice, Policy, and Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert T. Palmer, Dina C. Maramba, Taryn Ozuna Allen, Andrew T. Arroyo
May 21, 2026
This volume explores the unique experiences of student affairs professionals at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in the US. In doing so, it highlights broader challenges faced by MSIs and highlights ways in which these have been countered by effective student affairs practice. Recognizing that...
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 21, 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 ...
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. ...