When I hear the phrase societal impact (which is often these days!), I usually connect it to the use of social media – mostly Twitter and Facebook. Societal impact, referring to the many ways of transferring research results from the university context to the […]
Book Review: “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”
Shoshana Zuboff is known for her work In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988), which influenced the way we perceive technology, work, and organizations. With her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. […]
Why you should consider going to the annual Workshop on New Institutionalism in Organization Theory
. . . if you are interested in institutional theory and organizations, of course. Still, if you are a higher education researcher and you are “shopping for theories,” you may want to check this one out. […]
From plagiarism to predatory journals: academic misconduct, misrepresentation, and gaming
When we hear the words academic misconduct, we usually think of individuals involved in plagiarism and other kinds of unethical scholarly behavior, and less often of organizations implicated in such affairs. […]
Call for Papers: The 6th Summer School on Higher Education 2019 – Methods and approaches in higher education research
Welcome to the sixth Summer School on Higher Education. This year’s theme “methods and approaches in higher education research” addresses the new directions and dilemmas related to methods […]
Call for Participants: ECHER Academic Writing Clinic
Many early-career scholars face challenges with academic writing. Native English speakers or not, most of us spend a considerable amount of time trying to lay down our thoughts in a coherent and meaningful way, repeatedly rewriting and […]
Anonymous peer reviewers: the real heroes of academia
Research is not merely an endeavor to increase knowledge. It is an endless war on ignorance – But who is the greatest hero in this battle? And how can we acknowledge this struggle? […]
Learning from heterodox higher education institutions
Dr Catherine N. Butcher recently defended her PhD, titled “Heterodox forms of university ownership, governance, financing and organisational structure”, which is based on case-studies of four alternative higher education institutions in Europe, Asia, […]
Call for Proposals: 32nd Annual CHER Conference
The 32nd annual CHER-Conference will take place from 28 August to 30 August, 2019 at the University of Kassel and will be organized by the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel in Germany. The theme of this year’s conference is “Theories and Methods in Higher Education Research”.
Exploring the world of higher education research – Key Actors in Higher Education Research and Science Studies
You’re an early-career higher education researcher? One of those hybrid academics who doesn’t really fit into traditional typologies? Don’t lose hope, not yet. In most of my studies, I was tempted to fall toward computational techniques and reporting methods or to automate cumbersome tasks as much as possible.