Synonyms
“Academic” or “theoretical”; “Corporate” or “organizational”; “Stakeholder” or “user or potential user”; “Research field” or “research area”
Definition
Higher education and research in the UK:
UK research into higher education institutions and processes in their social and organizational contexts, in order to enhance policy and practice and to contribute to relevant social science theory in the field.
Introduction
Higher education research in the UK has expanded significantly over recent decades, although there has been a fragmentation of the field or research area. In a sense, it is a research field without a shared core, with researchers entering the field from different academic and professional backgrounds and engaging with higher education from a variety of positions and interests.
Much of higher education research in the UK is policy-led, reflecting agendas set by national policy bodies and their needs for supportive evidence for those agendas. There is also a...
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Brennan, J., Henkel, M. (2018). Higher Education Research, UK. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_182-1
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