Higher Education Research and Development

The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential Progress towards more inclusive practices and social justice remains high on the agenda of the higher education sector globally. Although there are many professional development offerings for acade...

The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential
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Gender comparison of Jewish ultra-orthodox PhD students This study examines the identity-shaping processes of Israeli-Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) doctoral students and graduates of both genders. The research question is, how do Haredi women and men c...

Gender comparison of Jewish ultra-orthodox PhD students
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Development and validation of short version of university-program student engagement questionnaire (SUPSEQ) Universities and other institutions of higher learning typically administer questionnaires to assess students’ university and program-level engagement, but many of these tools lack a solid theoreti...

Development and validation of short version of university-program student engagement questionnaire (SUPSEQ)
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What motivates academics to act as reviewers? Exploring Chinese academics’ motivations to review for international journals Peer review is a cornerstone of science. However, a growing body of scholarly work argues that peer review is in a state of crisis, partly due to the number of submissions of manuscripts to interna...

What motivates academics to act as reviewers? Exploring Chinese academics’ motivations to review for international journals
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#PeerReview

Towards a clearer understanding of student disadvantage in higher education: problematising deficit thinking The increased diversity in the student body resulting from massification poses particular challenges to higher education. This article engages the uncritical use of the ‘disadvantage’ discourse an...

Towards a clearer understanding of student disadvantage in higher education: problematising deficit thinking [2012]
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Evolution of academic roles, the emergence of education focused roles, and the policy solutions needed for building resilience in education focused academic roles in higher education This study analyses the evolution of academic roles, the rapid emergence of education focused academic roles, and policy solutions needed for higher education. It explores the challenges faced by a...

Evolution of academic roles, the emergence of education focused roles, and the policy solutions needed for building resilience in education focused academic roles in higher education
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Exploring the current status and influencing factors of Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SOTL) among Chinese university faculty in centers for learning and teaching Developing university faculty's scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a key factor in enhancing the quality of higher education teaching and talent cultivation, as well as an important fun...

Exploring the current status and influencing factors of Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SOTL) among Chinese university faculty in centers for learning and teaching
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Student feedback for integrating reflection into the higher education curriculum; a cross disciplinary study Reflective practice is a vital lifelong learning skill, highly regarded in educational pedagogy for its powerful role in shaping students’ sense of identity, enhancing knowledge transfer, and deepe...

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Our 2025 List of Reviewers is now online.

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How universities can replace epistemic harm with well-being For South African universities to move forward in transforming and opening their spaces to students in all their diversity, epistemic well-being must ...

How universities can replace epistemic harm with well-being
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Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace While Canada lacks explicit central directives towards research productivity, academics experience frequent and intense reviews of their research, teaching and service through mechanisms such as el...

Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace
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The transformation of academic ideals: an Australian analysis This article explores the role that universities play in shaping the relationship between academics and their work. Drawing on Miller and Rose's interpretation of our present era as being character...

The transformation of academic ideals: an Australian analysis
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Rethinking the student journey with voice of student: unstructured data-driven approach
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Hey #HigherEd folks! PRODIGI's Peter Bannister nails it in his new @herdjournal.bsky.social article: GenAI discourse is formulaic + witch hunts hurt integrity. How do we use it and respond to those who do ethically?

Full read: doi.org/10.1080/0729...

#GenAI #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics

Including LGBTQ+ early career higher education staff: learning from the policy and practice for supporting LGBTQ+ students This discursive paper addresses the lack of recent robust research on the experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ+) Higher Education (HE) staff, particularly Early...

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We got this RCT with null results in @herdjournal.bsky.social a few years ago.

The reviewers were super fair to us and we've had a real hard time getting any follow ups published. We have a power issue which we discuss and other issues beyond our control.

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Complex pathways of Russian university graduates: which pathways lead upwards? This study investigates how the complex educational and career pathways of Russian university graduates shape their subjective social mobility, advancing understanding of graduates’ outcomes in a h...

Complex pathways of Russian university graduates: which pathways lead upwards?
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Disrupting colonial legacies in higher education: power, language, and identity in South African ODL curriculum The need to transform university curricula is a pressing issue for researchers, students and stakeholders in twenty-first-century higher education (HE) worldwide. In the Global South, particularly ...

Disrupting colonial legacies in higher education: power, language, and identity in South African ODL curriculum
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Call for papers Special Issue | Lia Blaj-Ward Contributions are invited to a collaborative sensemaking project: a Higher Education Research and Development Special Issue on leading learning, teaching and assessment to 2050 and beyond (Guest edito...

Call for Papers! For a Special Issue on leading learning, teaching and assessment to 2050 and beyond.

Please share. #HigherEd

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Supporting lived experience teaching academics through co-reflection

Snita Ahir-Knight, Huia Monro, Javi Arango, Serra Clark, Toni Huls & Rachel Tester

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Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace While Canada lacks explicit central directives towards research productivity, academics experience frequent and intense reviews of their research, teaching and service through mechanisms such as el...

Made to measure: early career academics in the Canadian university workplace
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Why are some universities better? An evaluation in terms of organizational culture and academic performance* The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between organizational culture and academic performance among higher education institutions. The sample was composed of 647 faculty mem...

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How universities can replace epistemic harm with well-being For South African universities to move forward in transforming and opening their spaces to students in all their diversity, epistemic well-being must ...

How universities can replace epistemic harm with well-being
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Assessment for student transitions and success: a scoping review of assessment principles in Australian enabling education Enabling education, also known as foundation, pathway or access education, provides opportunities for many students from under-represented groups to access university. Although various studies have...

Assessment for student transitions and success: a scoping review of assessment principles in Australian enabling education
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📢 New publication 📢

Drawing on the #LivedExperience of 998 #PhD mums from over 100 countries, this article provides advice relating to support, self-care, self-belief, role management, and preparation.

#PhDMums #HigherEd #HigherEducation #DoctoralEducation #Motherhood #PhDLife

Call for papers for a Special Issue on:

Leadership of learning, teaching and assessment to 2050 and beyond.

Editors: Dr Lia Blaj-Ward and Professor Susan Rowland

Manuscript deadline: 24 April 2026

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Doctoral research is not an easy undertaking for anyone, but the challenges of doing this while also navigating the complexities and gendered expectations of motherhood can be intensely and inequitably demanding. Mothers have been historically marginalised in higher education, yet still remain missing from many institutional initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Considering current demographic trends, ‘PhD mums’ are a potentially large cohort in doctoral programmes, but they are often (made) invisible. This study reports on part of a large-scale international exploration of the experiences of PhD mums across five continents. A total of 998 PhD mums provided advice to others who might now or in the future combine the roles of mother and doctoral researcher. Through a thematic analysis of the responses, advice relating to support, self-care, self-belief, role management, and preparation was revealed. The study elevates the voice of PhD mothers, offers advice and provides practical and moral support for those who, despite their unique and nuanced contexts, share the continuing challenge of navigating motherhood during their doctoral candidature.

Congratulations to @ioe.bsky.social SRI member @melbond.bsky.social on her recent article, drawing on the lived experience of 998 #PhDMums from over 100 countries.

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#HigherEd #PhD #PhDLife #HigherEducation #Motherhood

The homeification of learning in higher education Homeification refers to the intensification of the home environment through the accelerated lifestyle changes triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. These changes resulted in blurred and altered bound...

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How to ‘juggle all the competing demands’: advice to PhD mums from the lived experiences of other PhD mums Doctoral research is not an easy undertaking for anyone, but the challenges of doing this while also navigating the complexities and gendered expectations of motherhood can be intensely and inequit...

Fascinating research on the lived experiences of and advice from PhD moms. Impressive to make qualitative analysis when n = 998! doi.org/10.1080/0729... #PhDLife #PhDMom

As part of the #PhDmums study, we asked almost 1000 current and former doctoral researchers who also had a mother(-like) role, to share their advice, which we have distilled and shared in our new paper.

Link: lnkd.in/gxyrtadd
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