Routledge Research in Higher Education
About the Book Series
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Advances in Interdisciplinary Research: Pioneering Innovations and Sustainable Practices Towards Open Science
1st Edition
Edited
By María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya, Miguel A. Montoya, Genaro Zavala-Enríquez, Antonio Martínez-Arboleda
September 27, 2026
This book explores methodologies and strategies for enhancing educational practices through interdisciplinary research and open science. Featuring global contributions, it shows how integrating diverse disciplines can drive innovation, improve teaching, and tackle modern educational challenges. The...
Black Women’s College Outcomes: The Longitudinal Impact of an Elite University Education on Equity, Opportunity, & Social Mobility
1st Edition
By MaryBeth Walpole, Stephanie M. Lezotte, Crystal Renee Chambers, Madeline P. Boehning
September 27, 2026
This book fills important gaps in understanding the experiences and outcomes of college and the professional lives of successful Black women and the role of institutional context. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 10 Black women who entered an elite university in 1995 and graduated in 1999, it ...
Green Space as a Foundation for Student Wellbeing in Higher Education: A Comparative Analysis of Campus Design
1st Edition
By Vanita Naidoo
September 27, 2026
This book presents a unique comparative case study that details the narrative around campus design at the first institutions of public higher education in the United States. With a focus on Southern design at the turn of the 18th century, it explores the use and perception of campus green space and...
Navigating Academic Motherhood: The Possibilities of Effective Mentorship for Tenured Faculty Mothers
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Gates Bradley, Vonzell Agosto
September 27, 2026
This volume offers a range of scholarly narratives from tenured faculty mothers across North America, sharing insights into their unique struggles, compromises, and successes from their journeys to tenure. Featuring personal essays and research-based commentaries about effective mentoring for ...
Disability and Higher Education: Theory~Practice Coherence
1st Edition
By Tim Corcoran, Ben Whitburn
September 04, 2026
This book encourages higher education administrators and educators to think in new ways about how to work inclusively with disabled students and examines the way inherent requirements are used in universities to ensure the integrity of their academic courses. With the aim of influencing change in ...
Rethinking Multilingual Writers in Higher Education: An Institutional Case Study
1st Edition
By Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Mya Poe, Cherice Escobar Jones, Cara Marta Messina, Neal Lerner
August 26, 2026
Rethinking Multilingual Writers in Higher Education: An Institutional Case Study explores the complexities of multilingual students as language users and learners, emphasizing the distinctive assets that they bring to their education and the ways in which institutions of higher education can better...
Onto-Epistemic Educational Injustice in Higher Education: Who Gets to Know, Who Gets to Be
1st Edition
By Michelle Ocriciano
August 06, 2026
Universities shape more than what students know. They shape who students can be and become. This book, therefore, examines how educational systems simultaneously shape knowledge production and ways of being. Drawing from philosophy of education, decolonial thought, social epistemology, and Japanese...
The Community College Reform Movement: Contentions and Ideological Origins
1st Edition
By Milton E. Clarke
July 19, 2026
This book critically examines the rise of the higher education reform movement, often referred to as the “completion agenda,” which, since the early 2000s, has sought to restructure core aspects of the community college experience. Using community colleges from across nine U.S. states as practical ...
Exploring Communities of Practice in Higher Education: Building an Inclusive University Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Pattinson
July 03, 2026
Exploring how wide-ranging debates have supported, extended, repositioned, or conflicted with the original notion of Communities of Practice (CoPs) as sites of situated learning, this book argues that they can be cultivated and managed in higher education settings to create and support an inclusive...
Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education: Aid-Driven Research Co-operation in the Name of Economic Development
1st Edition
By Nelson Masanche Nkhoma
June 22, 2026
Knowledge Diplomacy and African Higher Education explores the emergent and dynamic global model of the aid-driven, research-intensive African university as a potential panacea for national and economic development in rapidly shifting contexts. Anchored in the concept of knowledge diplomacy, the ...
The Harms of Grading in Higher Education: Comparative Institutional Ethnographies of University Assessment Cultures
1st Edition
By Dan Melzer
June 18, 2026
This book examines the impacts of grading in higher education through comparative institutional ethnographies of two universities with radically different approaches to assessment. The Harms of Grading reports the results of institutional ethnographies at University of the Bay, which has an ...
Developing Feedback Literacy for Academic Journal Peer Review: Narratives from Researchers in Education and Applied Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sin Wang Chong, Aurora Lixinhao Gao
May 22, 2026
This edited volume showcases first-hand accounts of crafting and handling feedback during the peer review process from early career researchers (ECRs), journal editors and experienced reviewers to develop the concept of ‘feedback literacy’ in academic peer review contexts. This novel collection of ...