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 ...
Navigating Voices of Higher Education: A Poetic Ethnography of a University
1st Edition
By Justin Nicholes
July 28, 2025
This fascinating book comprises a poetic ethnography, featuring poems that capture the experiences of students, professors, administrators, custodians, a chancellor, and other people who work in institutions of US higher education. Using established poetic research methods, it invites readers to ...
Intersectional Perspectives on Equality and Social Justice in Norwegian Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Vander Tavares
July 07, 2025
Highlighting how systemic inequities in Norwegian higher education are perpetuated through colonial legacies, monocultures of knowledge, and a lack of critical engagement, this book offers an intersectional analysis that identifies issues and complexities in the domains of pedagogy, epistemology, ...
Black Women’s College Outcomes: The Longitudinal Impact of an Elite University Education on Equity, Opportunity, & Social Mobility
1st Edition
By MaryBeth Walpole, Stephanie M. Lezotte, Crystal Renee Chambers, Madeline P. Boehning
June 29, 2025
This book fills important gaps in understanding the experiences and outcomes of college and the professional lives of successful Black women and the role of institutional context. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 10 Black women who entered an elite university in 1995 and graduated in 1999, it ...
Navigating Academic Motherhood: The Possibilities of Effective Mentorship for Tenured Faculty Mothers
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Gates Bradley, Vonzell Agosto
June 29, 2025
This volume offers a range of scholarly narratives from tenured faculty mothers across North America, sharing insights into their unique struggles, compromises, and successes from their journeys to tenure. Featuring personal essays and research-based commentaries about effective mentoring for ...
Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Contemporary Understandings of Title IX
1st Edition
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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 ...