Research Agenda for Global Higher Education

Edited by Jeroen Huisman, Professor of Higher Education, Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium and Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Higher Education, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

‘A Research Agenda for Global Higher Education is a welcome addition to the academic literature on evolving perspectives to conceptualize and conduct research on universities. This outstanding book succeeds in challenging all the contributing authors to go beyond the classical framework for analyzing universities and explore new approaches that could be more relevant for university research in the rapidly evolving global context. The book presents, in a provocative manner, a comprehensive review of the growing number and variety of research issues related to the mission of universities and the many facets of operation that affect their performance and impact. Jeroen Huisman and Marijk van der Wende should be congratulated for putting this excellent book together. By proposing new research questions and recognizing emerging paradigms that may be more appropriate to understand recent trends affecting research on universities, including the multifaceted consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic viewed as “a global experiment”, this stimulating book provides a fresh intellectual perspective that is likely to become the new reference for guiding policy analysts and academics all over the world in thinking more holistically and critically about research on universities.’

• Contents:1 Reflections on a global agenda: on variety,fragmentation, change, and the big questions ahead 1Jeroen Huisman and Marijk van der Wende2 Open systems in a changing global context 19Marijk van der Wende3 Researching governance in higher education:trends, issues and challenges 43Jeroen Huisman and Futao Huang4 Sustainable resourcing of higher education 61Simon Roy5 Researching quality assurance: accomplishmentsand future agendas 81Lee Harvey and Bjørn Stensaker6 Re-approaching Europeanisation: how to knowthe unknown? 97Amélia Veiga7 Rethinking international mobility 115Jeyran Aghayeva8 Researching research universities in Africa 131Nico Cloete, François van Schalkwyk, JosWinnink and Robert Tijssen9 Re-engaging with the Global South: new directionsfor research into universities and their relationswith society 153Siew Fang Law and William Locke10 Enduring the crisis or embracing the change?Impact of COVID-19 transboundary crisis onuniversities as organizations 175Davide Donina and Dominik Antonowicz11 Facing the change beyond COVID-19: continuouscurriculum improvement in higher education usinglearning analytics 197Isabel Hilliger and Mar Pérez-Sanagustín12 Embedding global citizenship in theundergraduate curriculum: a case study frompsychology 215Madeleine Pownall, Richard Harris and Pam Blundell-BirtillIndex