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Research into Higher Education

Co-published with the Society for Research into Higher Education

Series Editor: Jeroen Huisman

This exciting new series aims to publish cutting edge research and discourse that reflects the rapidly changing world of higher education, examined in a global context. Encompassing topics of wide international relevance, the series includes every aspect of the international higher education research agenda, from strategic policy formulation and impact to pragmatic advice on best practice in the field.

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  1. Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education

    By Roger Brown, Helen Carasso

    Series: Research into Higher Education

    The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being introduced or increased, usually at the expense of state grants to institutions. Grants for student support are being replaced...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  2. The University in Dissent

    Scholarship in the corporate university

    By Gary Rolfe

    Series: Research into Higher Education

    The rise of corporatism in the North American University was charted by Bill Readings in the mid nineteen-nineties in his book The University in Ruins. The intervening years have seen the corporate university grow and extend to the point where its evolution into a large business corporation is...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education

    The rise of 'Third Space' professionals

    By Celia Whitchurch

    Series: Research into Higher Education

    Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals draws on studies conducted in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore the roles and identities of a growing number of staff associated with broadly based institutional projects such as...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Strategic Curriculum Change in Universities

    Global Trends

    By Paul Blackmore, Camille B. Kandiko

    Series: Research into Higher Education

    The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders – governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents – express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students. Many universities are reviewing...

    Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge

  5. Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education

    Renewing the role of the university professor

    By Bruce Macfarlane

    Series: Research into Higher Education

    What is ‘intellectual leadership’ and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues that it is important to define and reclaim intellectual leadership as a counter-weight to the prevailing...

    Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Literacy in the Digital University: Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship, and Technology
    Edited by Robin Goodfellow, Mary R. Lea
    To Be Published July 25th 2013
  2. Researching Student Learning in Higher Education: A social realist approach
    By Jennifer M. Case
    To Be Published August 6th 2013
  3. Women Leaders in Higher Education: Shattering the myths
    By Tanya Fitzgerald
    To Be Published August 20th 2013
  4. Feminism, Gender and Universities: Politics, passion and pedagogies
    By Miriam David
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  5. Writing in Social Spaces: A social processes approach to academic writing
    By Rowena Murray
    To Be Published December 4th 2013

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