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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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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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Academia’s Stockholm Syndrome: The Ambivalent Status of Rankings in Higher Education (Research)

Posted on May 9, 2021July 20, 2021by Jelena Brankovic

Academia has an ambivalent relationship with rankings. On the one hand, academics constantly complain about them; on the other, they always look for ways to “fix” them.

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Organizational Institutionalism in Higher Education Studies

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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 […]

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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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What are the “classics” of higher education research?

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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 […]

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Thinking with theory & doing theory in higher education research

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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 […]

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