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“It is our duty as editors and reviewers to help advance higher education scholarship”: Interview with Manja Klemenčič, Editor of “European Journal of Higher Education”

Posted on September 13, 2020November 22, 2020by Jelena Brankovic
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This year, the European Journal of Higher Education celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Although a relatively young scholarly outlet, the journal occupies an important space, not only in European […]

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“Your article is more important than the journal you put it in”: Interview with Petra Angervall, Editor-in-Chief of “Journal of Praxis in Higher Education”

Posted on September 7, 2020November 24, 2020by Melina Aarnikoivu
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This time in the “Meet the Editors” interview series, we talk to Petra Angervall, the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE), a new, open access journal established in 2019. […]

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DPER 25-year anniversary series – Kick-off panel “Higher Education Research”

Posted on August 27, 2020August 27, 2020by ECHER
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This is the kick-off panel in the webinar series to celebrate 25 years of Doctoral Programme in Educational Research – Higher Education (DPER). It will be followed by three webinars. 2 September 2020, 2:00pm to 3:00pm UK time. Free.

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What kind of “methodological lifestyle” do you want as a scholar?

Posted on July 21, 2020September 9, 2020by Riyad A. Shahjahan
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A couple of years ago, a doctoral advisee was at the crossroads of what he could explore for his future dissertation. During the meeting, my brilliant Michigan State University colleague, Lynn Fendler […]

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“People are busier, there are more journals, there’s pressure to publish. It’s an escalation of everything”: Interview with Rosemary Deem

Posted on July 14, 2020September 9, 2020by Richard Budd
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In this edition of our “Meet the Editors” interview series, Richard Budd talks to Rosemary Deem, a co-editor of Higher Education. Rosemary is Professor of Higher Education Management in the School […]

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Academic poster sessions: How to transform a Cinderella into a Princess

Posted on July 2, 2020September 9, 2020by Sofya Kopelyan

With countries loosening the measures against COVID-19, there is hope that eventually we will be able to resume the practice of academic symposia, and with that the practice of poster […]

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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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“We need more discussion on contributions to our field”: Interview with Jeroen Huisman, Editor of “Higher Education Policy”

Posted on June 21, 2020December 4, 2020by Jelena Brankovic
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In this interview, we are talking with Jeroen Huisman, the editor of Higher Education Policy. Jeroen is Professor of Higher Education at the Department of Sociology, Ghent University and the director of its Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG). […]

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

Posted on June 17, 2020June 17, 2020by 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, 2020January 24, 2021by 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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