Convenor

Professor Paul Ashwin, University of Lancaster
Email: p.ashwin@lancaster.ac.uk

Higher Education Close-Up (HECU) is a virtual network for in-depth research into higher education. It aims to provide a forum for discussion about, and the enhancement of, this kind of research via a twitter account  (https://twitter.com/higher_hecu) which provides a space to discuss ideas about theory and method in HE research, to share ideas and to build collaborations.

Prior to the creation of this twitter account, forum discussions took place via a JISCMAIL list, and the archive is still available via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/HIGHER-EDUCATION-CLOSE-UP.html

The last HECU conference took place at Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa from the 3rd to 5th July 2024, please visit https://sites.google.com/ru.ac.za/hecu11/home for details.

The previous HECU conference took place at Lancaster University from the 4th to 6th July 2022, and the conference theme was Critical approaches to close-up higher education research http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/hecu10/