Higher Education Research and Development

Supporting PhD candidates: why relationships matter By Dr Jeanne Boisselier, PhD, Researcher in social psychology at the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary studies on the Doctorate (LID), Adoc Talent Management. This article draws on her Jeanne’s paper…

How PhD supervisory relationships influence help-seeking in PGRs. A 5min read that will give you pause for thought! supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/s...

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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Advance or retreat? Young female faculty members’ contradictory choices and coping strategies in Chinese elite universities Academia poses many struggles for young female faculty members, who have to make difficult tradeoffs to achieve promotion and professional excellence. Drawing on symbolic boundaries theory, this qu...

Advance or retreat? Young female faculty members’ contradictory choices and coping strategies in Chinese elite universities
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AI-augmented heutagogy: a framework for fostering self-determined learning and agency in higher education The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) offers transformative opportunities and challenges for higher education, prompting a critical question: How can this technology reshape learning...

AI-augmented heutagogy: a framework for fostering self-determined learning and agency in higher education
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The association between PhD holders’ experiences of professional support and work engagement and burnout Most new PhD graduates are going to have non-academic careers, but research on their work experience has so far been limited, particularly regarding the quality of professional interactions and how...

The association between PhD holders’ experiences of professional support and work engagement and burnout
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The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement To improve their academic performance and prepare themselves for life after graduation, students need to be able to judge the quality of their own work and that of others. This capability is known ...

The feedback process as a scaffold of evaluative judgement
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What’s in a name? Indigenist Standpoint Pedagogy shakes up our settler-colonial academic identities We examine our positionalities and standpoint in relation to the gift of ‘Gulbali ngurambang’, a Wiradjuri name for an Australian University research institute, collaboratively exploring how to hon...

What’s in a name? Indigenist Standpoint Pedagogy shakes up our settler-colonial academic identities
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Developing an evidence-based pedagogical framework through investigation of current practice in teaching employability skills inherent to online groupwork Teaching implicit employability skills in higher education is challenged by the dearth of scholarly literature and institutional structures promoting and supporting a common pedagogical approach. A...

Developing an evidence-based pedagogical framework through investigation of current practice in teaching #employability skills inherent to online #groupwork
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Retaining female postgraduates in academia: the role of gender and prospective parenthood Women remain under-represented in almost all academic levels at universities internationally, and previous evidence has suggested that women move out of the university system in increasing numbers ...

Retaining female postgraduates in academia: the role of gender and prospective parenthood
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Developing, expressing and contesting opinions of science: encouraging the student voice In a typical science degree, little emphasis is placed on the need for scientists to make judgements about evidence and little value is placed on the development of students' opinions about science...

Developing, expressing and contesting opinions of science: encouraging the student voice
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Strengthening responses to sexual and/or intimate partner violence against women international students: Australian stakeholder perspectives

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#InternationalStudents #SexualViolence #IntimatePartnerViolence

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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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?

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#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.

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