Gill Nicholls is Professor of Education and Director of King’s Institute of Learning and Teaching at King’s College London. Gill has extensive research experience and has published widely. She is also involved in consultancy work evaluating university learning and teaching strategies and learning and teaching research strategies.

• Part 1 Establishing the concept of scholarship 1 Why challenge scholarship? 2 Historical concepts of scholarship Part 2 Policy and power: influences on scholarship 3 Policy and initiatives: the need to reconceptualize scholarship 4 Scholarship of teaching: an emerging concept 5 Disciplines and scholarship: challenging the power 6 An international perspective: the implications of scholarship for professionalism Part 3 Challenging the future7 Scholarship: the challenge of the future 8 Scholarship: a hostage to 9 Final comments