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
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
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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 ...
Advances in Interdisciplinary Research: Pioneering Innovations and Sustainable Practices Towards Open Science
1st Edition
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By María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya, Miguel A. Montoya, Genaro Zavala-Enríquez, Antonio Martínez-Arboleda
June 15, 2025
This book explores methodologies and strategies for enhancing educational practices through interdisciplinary research and open science. Featuring global contributions, it shows how integrating diverse disciplines can drive innovation, improve teaching, and tackle modern educational challenges. The...
Green Space as a Foundation for Student Wellbeing in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Campus Design
1st Edition
By Vanita Naidoo
June 12, 2025
This book presents a unique comparative case study that details the narrative around campus design at the first institutions of public higher education in the United States. With a focus on Southern design at the turn of the 18th century, it explores the use and perception of campus green space and...
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
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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...