Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

Jeroen Huisman is Professor of Higher Education in theDepartment of Sociology, Ghent University, Belgium. He is author/editor of around 300publications. His research interests revolve around policy and governance inhigher education and organisational change and governance of higher educationinstitutions. His most recent (co-edited) books include Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education: Processesand 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 theDepartment of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK. He is the authoror editor of over 50 books and over 150 journal articles and book chapters. Hismain research interest is in the development of higher education research, and his most recent books include Researching Higher Education and HigherEducation Research: The Developing Field.

• Introduction; Jeroen Huisman and MalcolmTightUsing the Sociology of Basil Bernstein in Higher Education Research; Michael Donnelly and Andrea AbbasA Probalistic Approach to Studies in Higher Education; Adriana Perez-Encinas and Jesus Rodriguez-PomedaRefocusing Threshold Concepts: Surfacing and Attendingto Student Misconceptions as a Necessary (and Safer) Form of Liminal Learning; Melinda Lewis, Jason Lodge and Rosanne QuinnellCreativity and Playfulness in Higher Education Research; Nicole Brown and Jennifer LeighCapturing Hybrid Institutional Logics in Higher Education: Qualitative Document Analysis as a Methodological Approach; Jarrett Warshaw and Stevie UptonGlobalisation and Differentiation in HigherEducation Systems; Frans van Vught, Marijk van der Wende and Don WesterheijdenExploring the Complex Social Spaces of Higher Education: Challenges of Geometric Data Analysis and Topological Approaches; Fabian Mundt and Kenneth HorvathMethodological Tracks to StudyResearch Collaboration Networks in Higher Education; Denise Leite, Isabel Pinho, Celia Caregnato and Bernardo MiorandoLongitudinal Peer Network Data inHigher Education; Jasperina Brouwer, Ellen Jansen, Andreas Flache andAdriaan HofmanCasting the 'Net' in Autonetnography: Exploring the Potential for Analytic Autonetnographyas an Emerging e-Research Methodology; Lyz HowardPractice-Focused, Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology in HigherEducation Leadership Research; Sal JarvisHuman andSocial Capital and their Application in Higher Education Research; Malcolm TightThe State of the Art on HigherEducation Research on Flanders; Bruno Broucker, Jeroen Huisman, Jef Verhoeven and Kurt De Wit