Higher & further education, tertiary education
Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine
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Providing scientific evidence to support equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in health and biomedicine, this book offers practical strategies and interventions for academic settings.
Women in Supramolecular Chemistry
Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on research carried out by the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry network, this book sets out the extent to which women working in STEM face inequality and discrimination. It offers a path forward to inclusivity and diversity.
Researching the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Blueprint for the Social Sciences
Challenging social science’s established orthodoxies, this book is a call for academia to embrace new theoretical frameworks and research methods to better understand the reality of life in a post-Covid world.
English Universities in Crisis
Markets without Competition
Student fees have saddled graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt from unpaid loans is rocketing. This timely and challenging analysis gives robust new policy proposals to encourage excellence and ultimately benefit society.
The Soul of a University
Why Excellence is not Enough
How can we re-establish universities’ social purpose? The solution lies with asking not only ‘what are we good at?’, but also ‘what are we good for?’. Chris Brink shows how universities can – and should - promote positive social change.
Poetry and Pedagogy in Higher Education
A Creative Approach to Teaching, Learning and Research
Explore the transformative power of poetry in higher education for personal and professional development with this guide, featuring practical exercises and case studies for educators and learners.
The Immobility Turn
Mobility, Migration and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Using empirical evidence from Portugal, a geopolitically important point of intersection within Europe and between Global South and Global North, this book offers invaluable insights about how the pandemic has impacted migration, mobility, industries and individuals’ lives, informing policy-making processes on a global level.
Reclaiming Feminism
Challenging Everyday Misogyny
Miriam David celebrates the achievements of international feminists as activists and scholars and provides a critique of the expansion of global higher education masking their pioneering zeal and zest for knowledge.
The New Political Economy of Teacher Education
The Enterprise Narrative and the Shadow State
Adopting a political economy perspective, Viv Ellis, Lauren Gatti and Warwick Mansell present a unique and international analysis of teacher education policy in the US, England and Norway after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.
The Black PhD Experience
Stories of Strength, Courage and Wisdom in UK Academia
Drawing on students’ experiences of structural racism in the UK higher education institutions, this book offers an informed analysis on the barriers to Black student progression. It documents success stories and provides key recommendations for the sector on how to eliminate discrimination and achieve positive results for Black students.
Anti-Racism in Higher Education
An Action Guide for Change
Arising from staff and student experiences, this book offers a roadmap for senior leaders, academic and professional staff and students to build strategies, programmes and interventions that effectively dismantle racism.
University–Industry Partnerships for Positive Change
Transformational Strategic Alliances Towards UN SDGs
Sharing the authors’ extensive experience in working at the interface between academia, industry and government, this book is designed to enable powerful university–industry partnerships that can play a pivotal role in achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).