Why do academic have blogs? What purpose do they serve in one's research and career? Which academic bloggers do you follow and why? How can we make a better use of the ECHER Blog? What purpose does such a community blog serve? If you want to talk about any or all of these things, join […]
Come network and rant with fellow ECHERites about the weird year of 2020 for one final time before the holidays. The details about the meetup, including the Zoom link, will be shared on the ECHER mailing list.
How do we think and work with theory in higher education studies? Where do theories come from, what role(s) do they play, and how can we make the most of them? How do we know which theory "works" and which theory "does not work" in the studies we do? If these and similar questions have […]
Let's brainstorm about the works which have made lasting contributions to higher education studies. Which works come to your mind first? What do they all have in common? In what way are they still relevant or could be relevant? Which works, in your view, make "the canon" of higher education studies? What would a critical […]
Getting a request to do major or minor revisions on a submitted article is half the victory on our way to Publand. However, now you’ve got a bunch of peer reviewers’ comments to worry about: How to address each comment, even though you would disagree on some of them? Do you even have to address […]
Organizational institutionalism (in its many variants) is a commonly used theoretical framework in higher education studies focusing on organizational dimension of universities. Whenever we speak of isomorphism, rationalization, decoupling, organizational fields, institutional logics, diffusion, organizational actorhood, professional norms, rationalized myths, among others, we make (implicit or explicit) reference to some strand of institutional theory applied […]