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
Campus Service Workers Supporting First-Generation Students: Informal Mentorship and Culturally Relevant Support as Key to Student Retention and Success
1st Edition
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By Georgina Guzmán, La’Tonya Miles, Stephanie Youngblood
May 31, 2023
This unique collection of testimonials, critical essays, and first-hand accounts demonstrates the significant contribution of campus service workers in supporting the retention and success of first-generation college students. Using a Freirean framework to ground individual stories, the text ...
Establishing an Experimental Community College in the United States: Challenges, Successes, and Implications for Higher Education
1st Edition
By Chet Jordan
January 09, 2023
This text offers an in-depth case study of the development of an experimental community college established by City University of New York with the aim of increasing two-year completion rates. By detailing academic and administrative reforms undertaken at Guttman Community College since 2007, the ...
Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-come
1st Edition
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By Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Siddique Motala, Dorothee Holscher
January 09, 2023
Higher Education Hauntologies considers how higher education might benefit from thinking about Derrida’s notion of hauntology and its implications for a justice-to-come. It contributes to the imperative to rethink the university across and with/in global geopolitical spaces and thus, has appeal for...
Higher Education in the Gulf: Quality Drivers
1st Edition
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By Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, John McAlaney
January 09, 2023
This authoritative edited volume examines the drivers of higher education in the Gulf region. It offers insightful analyses and examines contemporary pedagogical, management, strategic, and relevant issues on quality education that confront higher education institutions. Written by higher ...
Human Resource Perspectives on Workplace Bullying in Higher Education: Understanding Vulnerable Employees' Experiences
1st Edition
By Leah P. Hollis
January 09, 2023
This analytical volume uses qualitative data, quantitative data, and direct employee experiences to aid understanding of why workplace bullying occurs in universities throughout the US. To address higher education workplace bullying, this text offers data-driven interventions for human resource ...
Humanizing Grief in Higher Education: Narratives of Allyship and Hope
1st Edition
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By Nicole Sieben, Stephanie Shelton
January 09, 2023
By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship. Featuring a broad ...
Research Methods in English Medium Instruction
1st Edition
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By Jack K.H. Pun, Samantha M. Curle
January 09, 2023
In this special edited volume, the editors and invited English Medium Instruction (EMI) researchers, from different parts of the world, outline the latest EMI research methods. Providing academic instruction using English is rapidly spreading in many countries where English is a second or foreign ...
The Impact of Higher Education Ranking Systems on Universities
1st Edition
By Kevin Downing, Petrus Johannes Loock, Sarah Gravett
January 09, 2023
This book, written by three generations of rankings academics with considerable experience from three very different regions of the globe, lifts the lid on the real impact of higher education ranking systems (HERS) on universities and their stakeholders. It critically analyses the criteria that ...
Internationalising Higher Education and the Role of Virtual Exchange
1st Edition
By Robert O'Dowd
December 30, 2022
This volume introduces Virtual Exchange (VE) as an innovative form of online intercultural learning and investigates the myriad of ways VE is being carried out across universities, ultimately arguing for its integration into university internationalisation policies and course curricula. Against the...
The Experience of Examining the PhD: An International Comparative Study of Processes and Standards of Doctoral Examination
1st Edition
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By Michael Byram, Maria Stoicheva
December 30, 2022
This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining. Presenting case studies and research from 13 universities in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, North and...
Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua: Reflections from a University under Fire
1st Edition
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By Wendi Bellanger, Serena Cosgrove, Irina Carlota Silber
September 27, 2022
This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. Using ...
Community Engagement in Christian Higher Education: Enacting Institutional Mission for the Public Good
1st Edition
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By P. Jesse Rine, Sandra Quiñones
August 29, 2022
Originally published as a special issue of Christian Higher Education, this volume showcases diverse forms of community engagement work carried out by faith-based colleges and universities throughout the US. Acknowledging the rise of community engagement as a contemporary expression of a ...