Centre for HE Research and Evaluation
@centreforhere.bsky.social
Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation
Department of Educational Research
Lancaster University
https://tinyurl.com/hte2knet
Director: @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social
Department of Educational Research
Lancaster University
https://tinyurl.com/hte2knet
Director: @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social
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Interested in studying a fully online, part-time PhD in higher education? I will be hosting an applicant webinar for our HEREE programme from 13.00-14.00 (UK time) on Thurs 30th October on Zoom. Register here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-scien...
PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement Applicant Webinar - 30th October 2025, Thursday 30 October, 1:00pm - Lancaster University
Interested in applying for our fully online PhD Higher Education: Research Evaluation and Enhancement in October 2026? Join one of our monthly online webinars. You will have the opportunity to hear mo...
www.lancaster.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Interested in studying a fully online, part-time PhD in higher education? I will be hosting an applicant webinar for our HEREE programme from 13.00-14.00 (UK time) on Thurs 30th October on Zoom. Register here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/social-scien...
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'we are rapidly burning through our next generation of university teachers and researchers'
Insightful review of Graeme Turner's book 'Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good'
#HigherEd
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Insightful review of Graeme Turner's book 'Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good'
#HigherEd
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Australia’s university system is ‘battered’ and ‘broken’ – a new book surveys the wreckage and offers some solutions
Our universities require a major overhaul. Reform is possible, but only if a government is prepared to take up the challenge.
theconversation.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
'we are rapidly burning through our next generation of university teachers and researchers'
Insightful review of Graeme Turner's book 'Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good'
#HigherEd
theconversation.com/australias-u...
Insightful review of Graeme Turner's book 'Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good'
#HigherEd
theconversation.com/australias-u...
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Delighted this open access article with Laura Cordes Felby is now out.
New publication alert! 🚨
Reimagining the first year experience in higher education through a focus on knowledge engagement
By Laura Cordes Felby and Paul Ashwin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #FirstYear
Reimagining the first year experience in higher education through a focus on knowledge engagement
By Laura Cordes Felby and Paul Ashwin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #FirstYear
July 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Delighted this open access article with Laura Cordes Felby is now out.
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Fascinating insights on connecting policy and research with @paulashwin.bsky.social and Charles Clarke as part of our @edreslancaster.bsky.social summer school.
Researchers must be clear and concise, representing their bodies of knowledge, providing concrete steps that policy makers can take.
Researchers must be clear and concise, representing their bodies of knowledge, providing concrete steps that policy makers can take.
July 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Fascinating insights on connecting policy and research with @paulashwin.bsky.social and Charles Clarke as part of our @edreslancaster.bsky.social summer school.
Researchers must be clear and concise, representing their bodies of knowledge, providing concrete steps that policy makers can take.
Researchers must be clear and concise, representing their bodies of knowledge, providing concrete steps that policy makers can take.
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Hugely insightful walk behind the curtain of the review and journal editing process from @profjayneosgood.bsky.social as part of our @edreslancaster.bsky.social Summer School. Particularly taken with the explicit approach of a feminist ethic of care in writing reviews - no room for Reviewer 2!!!
July 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Hugely insightful walk behind the curtain of the review and journal editing process from @profjayneosgood.bsky.social as part of our @edreslancaster.bsky.social Summer School. Particularly taken with the explicit approach of a feminist ethic of care in writing reviews - no room for Reviewer 2!!!
If you're interested in doing a PhD in Higher Education, you can find out more about our structured, online, part-time programme in this webinar.
Details below.
Details below.
@paulashwin.bsky.social, the Programme Director, will be hosting the penultimate webinar re our fully online, part-time PhD in HEREE between 2pm-3pm on Weds 24th June via Zoom. If you'd like to take this opportunity to find out more about our programme, please register to join, the link is below.
June 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
If you're interested in doing a PhD in Higher Education, you can find out more about our structured, online, part-time programme in this webinar.
Details below.
Details below.
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@brettbligh.bsky.social, the Programme Director, will be hosting a webinar re our mainly online, part-time PhD in TEL between 9am-10am on 23/6 via Zoom.
If you'd like to take this opportunity to find out more about our programme, please register to join, the link is below.
If you'd like to take this opportunity to find out more about our programme, please register to join, the link is below.
June 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@brettbligh.bsky.social, the Programme Director, will be hosting a webinar re our mainly online, part-time PhD in TEL between 9am-10am on 23/6 via Zoom.
If you'd like to take this opportunity to find out more about our programme, please register to join, the link is below.
If you'd like to take this opportunity to find out more about our programme, please register to join, the link is below.
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It always amazes me that a pay cut for senior managers would 'make no difference', whereas redundancies, department and course closures are necessary to 'secure the future of the university', give students the 'best experience' and 'serve our communities'.
#HigherEd
#HigherEd
June 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It always amazes me that a pay cut for senior managers would 'make no difference', whereas redundancies, department and course closures are necessary to 'secure the future of the university', give students the 'best experience' and 'serve our communities'.
#HigherEd
#HigherEd
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This will be hugely insightful and interesting, as well as no doubt troubling and uplifting.
#academicfreedom
#academicsky
#highered
#academicfreedom
#academicsky
#highered
Our final online #EdResSeminar of this academic year will take place at 12.30pm(BST) on 11/6, and will be presented by Funda Karapehlivan. Her seminar is entitled "Academic Resistance and Solidarity: Imagining Alternative Futures for Higher Education in Turkey". www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Academic Resistance and Solidarity: Imagining Alternative Futures for Higher Education in Turkey, Wednesday 11 June, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
Academic freedom has been severely restricted, and higher education has undergone significant restructuring in recent years under authoritarian regimes.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
June 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This will be hugely insightful and interesting, as well as no doubt troubling and uplifting.
#academicfreedom
#academicsky
#highered
#academicfreedom
#academicsky
#highered
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Was pleased to be part of (and learned a huge amount from!) the working group that informed this excellent British Academy report on UK skills policy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
A joined-up approach to UK skills policy
The UK requires a joined-up approach to skills policy that considers the needs of learners, workers and businesses, is adaptable to changes in technology and the economy, and is flexible to local need...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Was pleased to be part of (and learned a huge amount from!) the working group that informed this excellent British Academy report on UK skills policy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
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This week: online @edreslancaster.bsky.social seminar on Wednesday (4th of June) at 12:30.
M. Oluwatobiloba Odetoyinbo will be talking about academic motherhood and career trajectories in Nigeria.
#academicsky #highered
All are welcome. Details/registration at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
M. Oluwatobiloba Odetoyinbo will be talking about academic motherhood and career trajectories in Nigeria.
#academicsky #highered
All are welcome. Details/registration at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Academic Motherhood in Nigeria: Navigating Reproduction and Care at the Margins, Wednesday 4 June, 12:30pm - Lancaster University
This study explores how Nigerian academic mothers navigate the intersection of motherhood and work.
www.lancaster.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This week: online @edreslancaster.bsky.social seminar on Wednesday (4th of June) at 12:30.
M. Oluwatobiloba Odetoyinbo will be talking about academic motherhood and career trajectories in Nigeria.
#academicsky #highered
All are welcome. Details/registration at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
M. Oluwatobiloba Odetoyinbo will be talking about academic motherhood and career trajectories in Nigeria.
#academicsky #highered
All are welcome. Details/registration at: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
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Delighted that this Open Access article, with Ashish Agrawal, Mags Blackie, @janmcarthur.bsky.social, Nicole Pitterson and Renee Smit, on students' accounts of chemical engineering is now out. It's from our @cghe.bsky.social project. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Students’ changing accounts of chemical engineering: a longitudinal study in three countries
In this article we examine how students’ accounts of chemical engineering change during their undergraduate degrees and whether these changes were related to the educational intentions of their deg...
www.tandfonline.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Delighted that this Open Access article, with Ashish Agrawal, Mags Blackie, @janmcarthur.bsky.social, Nicole Pitterson and Renee Smit, on students' accounts of chemical engineering is now out. It's from our @cghe.bsky.social project. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our new book can now be ordered in hardback. Colleagues based in universities please request it via your institutional libraries if you’re interested. Hopefully the volume will be available in paperback version very soon. Check out contents and a preview in the first comment, below!
May 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Our new book can now be ordered in hardback. Colleagues based in universities please request it via your institutional libraries if you’re interested. Hopefully the volume will be available in paperback version very soon. Check out contents and a preview in the first comment, below!
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I'm helping organize this conference. What would you like to see at this conference?
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Decolonial Conference | Join to Organize & Fight for Liberation
Engage with activists, movements, and politically committed scholars at the Decolonial Conference.
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May 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I'm helping organize this conference. What would you like to see at this conference?
www.decolonialconference.org
www.decolonialconference.org
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The picture for gender equality in the UK music industry is GRIM.
If you look at the pipeline of gender equality in music higher education, we are moving away from gender equality rather than closer to it.
I've written about this in a new academic article.
If you look at the pipeline of gender equality in music higher education, we are moving away from gender equality rather than closer to it.
I've written about this in a new academic article.
May 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The picture for gender equality in the UK music industry is GRIM.
If you look at the pipeline of gender equality in music higher education, we are moving away from gender equality rather than closer to it.
I've written about this in a new academic article.
If you look at the pipeline of gender equality in music higher education, we are moving away from gender equality rather than closer to it.
I've written about this in a new academic article.
For those unable to make it, this session is being recorded and will be available to our PGRs. 😀
In a fantastic workshop with @jonrainford.bsky.social for @centreforhere.bsky.social about thriving in part-time doctoral study. It draws on the book he and @kayguccione.bsky.social recently he wrote on this...
www.routledge.com/Thriving-in-...
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Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study: Integrating Work, Life and Research
Thriving in Part-Time Doctoral Study is a practical guide, designed to support part-time doctoral researchers in navigating their learning experience and providing them with the tools they need to suc...
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May 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
For those unable to make it, this session is being recorded and will be available to our PGRs. 😀
You are warmly invited to join us in Nottingham to discuss internationalisation of higher education in challenging times; with an amazing line up of speakers 👇🏼 attendance is free with lunch provided. but please register for catering purpose: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio... @m
May 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Looking forward to hosting @kayguccione.bsky.social and @jonrainford.bsky.social for their (online and publicly accessible) workshop on the 27th of May.
Details/registration here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Details/registration here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
May 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Looking forward to hosting @kayguccione.bsky.social and @jonrainford.bsky.social for their (online and publicly accessible) workshop on the 27th of May.
Details/registration here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Details/registration here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
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Delving into the class, ethnicity & gender higher education participation rates summarised in thread
Gender gaps exist for all ethnic groups. Whether White British, Pakistani or Black African, girls are more likely to attend higher education than boys
The class gap is striking, not just by gender
Gender gaps exist for all ethnic groups. Whether White British, Pakistani or Black African, girls are more likely to attend higher education than boys
The class gap is striking, not just by gender
It is notable:
1. the gender gap exists for *all* ethnic groups
2. the gender gap is larger for all free school meal children than non-free school meal children, regardless of ethnicity
3. the gap varies substantially by ethnicity and class, but is always in one direction (boys participate less)
1. the gender gap exists for *all* ethnic groups
2. the gender gap is larger for all free school meal children than non-free school meal children, regardless of ethnicity
3. the gap varies substantially by ethnicity and class, but is always in one direction (boys participate less)
May 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Delving into the class, ethnicity & gender higher education participation rates summarised in thread
Gender gaps exist for all ethnic groups. Whether White British, Pakistani or Black African, girls are more likely to attend higher education than boys
The class gap is striking, not just by gender
Gender gaps exist for all ethnic groups. Whether White British, Pakistani or Black African, girls are more likely to attend higher education than boys
The class gap is striking, not just by gender
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Great seminar by @iancushing.bsky.social at @education.ox.ac.uk this evening - on linguistic injustice
Lovely to meet last year’s @bjse.bsky.social ECR prize winner in person!
Lovely to meet last year’s @bjse.bsky.social ECR prize winner in person!
Really exciting to have @iancushing.bsky.social delivering the public seminar at @education.ox.ac.uk tonight - closely related to his article that's just come out in print in @oxfordreved.bsky.social ! Huge turnout in the room and online!
May 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great seminar by @iancushing.bsky.social at @education.ox.ac.uk this evening - on linguistic injustice
Lovely to meet last year’s @bjse.bsky.social ECR prize winner in person!
Lovely to meet last year’s @bjse.bsky.social ECR prize winner in person!
Fantastic roundtable discussion on Why UK HE is in crisis and how/if we can 'fix' it - this thread provides a snapshot of the discussions.
For those that missed - or enjoyed and wish to relive - it, the recording will be available on the @edreslancaster.bsky.social website soon.
For those that missed - or enjoyed and wish to relive - it, the recording will be available on the @edreslancaster.bsky.social website soon.
Enormously wide ranging and thought-provoking contributions in our @centreforhere.bsky.social round table with @gunjans.bsky.social, @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson, about why UK HE - and HE more broadly - is in (its current state of) crisis.
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#academicsky #highered
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#academicsky #highered
May 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Fantastic roundtable discussion on Why UK HE is in crisis and how/if we can 'fix' it - this thread provides a snapshot of the discussions.
For those that missed - or enjoyed and wish to relive - it, the recording will be available on the @edreslancaster.bsky.social website soon.
For those that missed - or enjoyed and wish to relive - it, the recording will be available on the @edreslancaster.bsky.social website soon.
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Today!
Really looking forward to this @centreforhere.bsky.social event at @edreslancaster.bsky.social still time to register if you want to come. Guaranteed to be interesting!
Really looking forward to this @centreforhere.bsky.social event at @edreslancaster.bsky.social still time to register if you want to come. Guaranteed to be interesting!
A timely reminder of our @centreforhere.bsky.social public online roundtable on Monday next week:
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?
Discussants are @gunjans.bsky.social , @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
Why is UK HE in crisis, and (how) can we fix it?
Discussants are @gunjans.bsky.social , @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Kalpana Shankar, and Susan Robertson.
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...
May 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Today!
Really looking forward to this @centreforhere.bsky.social event at @edreslancaster.bsky.social still time to register if you want to come. Guaranteed to be interesting!
Really looking forward to this @centreforhere.bsky.social event at @edreslancaster.bsky.social still time to register if you want to come. Guaranteed to be interesting!
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NEW on Wonkhe: The headlines are well known, but the full HESA release adds a lot of detail to a generally bleak picture. David Kernohan has the charts buff.ly/x3m7xS5
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: The headlines are well known, but the full HESA release adds a lot of detail to a generally bleak picture. David Kernohan has the charts buff.ly/x3m7xS5
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New report reveals increasing inequality in arts and culture. 🎭
Research found growing inequalities in arts and cultural participation, especially across class, ethnicity, and regions.
The report makes clear the scale of the challenge facing policymakers. ⤵️
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
Research found growing inequalities in arts and cultural participation, especially across class, ethnicity, and regions.
The report makes clear the scale of the challenge facing policymakers. ⤵️
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...
New report reveals increasing inequality in arts and culture
New research, co-authored by the University of Manchester’s Professor David O’Brien, reveals growing inequalities in arts and cultural participation, especially across class, ethnicity, and regions. F...
www.manchester.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The UK govt is about to do two things which will likely make the university crisis much worse, markedly tightening the tailspin. One: cut international student numbers further. Two: link fees to inflation. (1/3)
May 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The UK govt is about to do two things which will likely make the university crisis much worse, markedly tightening the tailspin. One: cut international student numbers further. Two: link fees to inflation. (1/3)