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Announcement: A new mailing list for higher education researchers – HERN

Posted on October 28, 2024October 28, 2024by Melina Aarnikoivu
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A new mailing list for higher education researchers has been set up, called Higher Education Researchers Network, or HERN. Read the text to see what it is all about how you can become a part of it.

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Higher Education Research Societies

Posted on July 20, 2021September 3, 2021by ECHER

The post contains a continuously updated list of higher education research societies around the world, national and international. The list is occasionally updated.

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The Making of Early Career Higher Education Researchers: An open-ended experiment in community building

Posted on March 4, 2021July 6, 2021by Jelena Brankovic and Melina Aarnikoivu

A a narrative reflection on the past, present, and future of the Early Career Higher Education Researchers (ECHER) network. Given its independent, informal, loosely structured, and voluntary character, we conceptualise it as an open-ended experiment in community building.

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ECHER: Spring/Summer 2020

Posted on June 29, 2020September 9, 2020by Melina Aarnikoivu
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The Covid-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect us in ways we are still struggling to make sense of. Even within the academic “micro-universe” —the one most of us are closest to—the impact […]

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ECHER meets online

Posted on April 14, 2020April 14, 2020by Melina Aarnikoivu

Maybe you were wondering what early-career higher education researchers around the world are doing these days. You probably weren’t, unless you are one. Anyhow, here’s a short report on what some of us in ECHER have been up to.

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ECHER Blog turns One!

Posted on December 17, 2019December 21, 2020by Jelena Brankovic
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Today is exactly one year since we launched this lovely blog we are so very proud of! Which makes it a good the occasion to look back at the things which we have done over this year – both related to the blog and to the community. […]

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ECHER: Past, present, and future

Posted on May 27, 2019June 9, 2020by Jelena Brankovic
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“Early-career” is, from whichever angle you look at it, a transitory phase in one’s academic life. It’s not even a phase we are very keen on staying in for more than we have to. After all, don’t we all work very hard to be considered early-career as short as possible?

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