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Doing doctoral studies: selected literature

Posted on August 11, 2021January 12, 2024by Melina Aarnikoivu

We all probably know the feeling of downloading interesting-sounding articles onto our computers, thinking we’ll read them “at some point”. And then we’ll never look at them again. However, sometimes those papers come to form the core background literature for our doctoral (or later) research.

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Theorizing in social sciences: resources

Posted on August 10, 2021September 5, 2021by ECHER

A bibliography of works on the subject of theorizing in social sciences.

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Academic writing: resources

Posted on August 9, 2021May 3, 2022by ECHER

On this page we provide a list of resources of potential use for improving your writing and research skills.

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Student success and student experience at university

Posted on July 29, 2021August 11, 2021by Irina Shcheglova

For many decades one of the most important tasks for both higher education researchers and teaching staff has been to understand how to maximize students’ success at university. […]

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Research on presidential leadership: a bibliography

Posted on June 24, 2021July 20, 2021by Daria Geraschenko and Katerina Guba

In the academic leadership research, an empirical focus on university leadership encompasses two remarkable strands: leader’s influence on organizational performance and changes of leader’s individual characteristics over time.

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“Changing a university is like moving a graveyard”: a history of an analogy

Posted on June 17, 2020February 20, 2024by Jelena Brankovic
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If you are not entirely new to higher education research, policy, or practice, chances are you have come across the quote from the title, possibly more than once. But where does it come from?

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Research on higher education research: a bibliography

Posted on June 6, 2020August 5, 2022by Jelena Brankovic

What is higher education research? Is it a (scattered) field, a discipline, a tribe, a territory, a (a‐theoretical) community of practice, a cluster of silos, or an archipelago whose watery divides need bridging? […]

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Doing research, writing, and publishing: ECHER’s resources

Posted on October 31, 2019November 1, 2019by ECHER
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Recently we introduced a new page on our website – resources. It is meant as a permanent and easy-to-access corner on this website, something you can always find by looking at the top of your browser, right under the address bar. We will be using this page to list various resources which could be helpful […]

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Becoming an Academic: 4 reasons why you should read Inger Mewburn’s new book

Posted on September 10, 2019December 1, 2020by Ai Tam Le
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If you’ve ever been discouraged by the somewhat challenging prospects of getting an academic job (I mean the real, permanent one) after getting your PhD, you may want to de-stress yourself with Inger Mewburn’s new book Becoming an Academic: How to get through Grad School and Beyond. […]

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Reading about writing: 5 book recommendations for early-career researchers

Posted on August 19, 2019December 1, 2020by Melina Aarnikoivu

Recently I’ve become super excited about reading again – a dear hobby of mine which I had ignored for a few years, mainly because of Netflix and all the great TV shows that I just “had to watch”. […]

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