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
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, ...
Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Contemporary Understandings of Title IX
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Developing a Model for Culturally Responsive Experiential Education: Teachers as Allies in Student Journeys of Decolonization
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Laura Yomantas
May 05, 2025
This book provides a new, empirically informed framework designed to equip higher education faculty with the tools to help students engage in humanizing, mutually beneficial, and anti-colonial experiential education alongside other students and communities around the world. The author maps the ...
Gamification and Design Thinking in Higher Education: Case Studies for Instructional Innovation in the Economics Classroom
1st Edition
By Carmen Bueno Muñoz, Núria Hernández Nanclares, Luis R. Murillo Zamorano, José Ángel López Sánchez
May 05, 2025
This book analyzes the use of gamification and design thinking in higher education, examining how both techniques can be combined and used together to promote motivation, engagement, and participation among students. Using two in-depth examples, the authors show that the introduction of a ...
Internships, High-Impact Practices, and Provocative Praxis in Higher Education: A Social Justice Framework Based on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
1st Edition
By Beth Manke, Bonnie Gasior, Michelle Chang
May 05, 2025
This authored text critically examines the theory and practice of college internship programs grounded in equity, diversity, inclusion, and access (EDIA) to examine issues such as infrastructure, inclusion, and privilege through "provocative praxis," a form of provocative inquiry that drives the ...
The Role of University Governing Boards in Canadian Higher Education: Sociological Perspectives on the Form and Functioning of Boards
1st Edition
By Dominik Antonowicz, Glen A. Jones
April 13, 2025
This book explores the historical and social foundations of Canadian higher education and provides a detailed analysis of university boards within this broader context of university governance. By examining rich empirical data from a sociological perspective, it offers unique insights into the role...
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...