Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

Jeroen Huisman is Professor of Higher Education in the
Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium. He is author/editor of around 300
publications. His research interests revolve around policy and governance in
higher education and organisational change and governance of higher education
institutions. His most recent (co-edited) books include Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes
and Outcomes and 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries:
Reform and Continuity.Malcolm Tight is Professor of Higher Education in the
Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK. He is the author
or editor of over 50 books and over 150 journal articles and book chapters. His
main research interest is in the development of higher education research, and his most recent books include Researching Higher Education and Higher
Education Research: The Developing Field.
<b>Jeroen Huisman</b> is Professor of Higher Education in the
Department of Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium. He is author/editor of around 300
publications. His research interests revolve around policy and governance in
higher education and organisational change and governance of higher education
institutions. His most recent (co-edited) books include <i>Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processes
and Outcomes</i> and <i>25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries:
Reform and Continuity</i>.<b>Malcolm Tight</b> is Professor of Higher Education in the
Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK. He is the author
or editor of over 50 books and over 150 journal articles and book chapters. His
main research interest is in the development of higher education research, and his most recent books include <i>Researching Higher Education</i> and <i>Higher
Education Research: The Developing Field</i>.

Introduction; <i>Jeroen Huisman and Malcolm
Tight</i>Using the Sociology of Basil Bernstein in Higher Education Research; <i>Michael Donnelly and Andrea Abbas</i>
A Probalistic Approach to Studies in Higher Education; <i>Adriana Perez-Encinas and Jesus Rodriguez-Pomeda</i>
Refocusing Threshold Concepts: Surfacing and Attending
to Student Misconceptions as a Necessary (and Safer) Form of Liminal Learning; <i>Melinda Lewis, Jason Lodge and Rosanne Quinnell</i>
Creativity and Playfulness in Higher Education Research; <i>Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh</i>
Capturing Hybrid Institutional Logics in Higher Education: Qualitative Document Analysis as a Methodological Approach; <i>Jarrett Warshaw and Stevie Upton</i>
Globalisation and Differentiation in Higher
Education Systems; <i>Frans van Vught, Marijk van der Wende and Don Westerheijden</i>
Exploring the Complex Social Spaces of Higher Education: Challenges of Geometric Data Analysis and Topological Approaches; <i>Fabian Mundt and Kenneth Horvath</i>
Methodological Tracks to Study
Research Collaboration Networks in Higher Education; <i>Denise Leite, Isabel Pinho, Celia Caregnato and Bernardo Miorando</i>
Longitudinal Peer Network Data in
Higher Education; <i>Jasperina Brouwer, Ellen Jansen, Andreas Flache andAdriaan Hofman</i>
Casting the 'Net' in Autonetnography: Exploring the Potential for Analytic Autonetnography
as an Emerging e-Research Methodology; <i>Lyz Howard</i>
Practice-Focused, Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology in Higher
Education Leadership Research; <i>Sal Jarvis</i>
Human and
Social Capital and their Application in Higher Education Research; <i>Malcolm Tight</i>
The State of the Art on Higher
Education Research on Flanders; <i>Bruno Broucker, Jeroen Huisman, Jef Verhoeven and Kurt De Wit</i>