Published by: Taylor & Francis
Frequency: Two issues per year
Print ISSN: 2332-2969
Online ISSN: 2332-2950

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Policy Reviews in Higher Education

Policy Reviews in Higher Education aims to open up a space for publishing in-depth accounts of significant areas of policy development affecting higher education internationally. Authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to analyse higher education from fresh perspectives, including drawing on concepts and theories from other academic fields.

Policy here is conceived as relevant to all areas of higher education activity, including transnational education, university governance and leadership, quality assurance and enhancement, academic work, curriculum development and student learning, occurring at the local, regional, national and international levels. Comparative analyses across higher education systems are particularly encouraged

Contributions are invited which are:

  • original and provide in-depth analysis
  • historically grounded and forward-looking
  • reflections on implications for policy broadly
  • presented in a style accessible for an international readership
  • between 8,000 and 12,000 words

Editors

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn

Professor Ellen Hazelkorn
Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology
ellen.hazelkorn@dit.ie

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Ellen Hazelkorn is Emeritus Professor and Director, Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland) and works as an education policy consultant (BH Associates Education Consultants). She is International Co-Investigator, ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education, London, and Research Fellow, Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA. She was policy advisor to, and board member of, the Higher Education Authority (Ireland), 2011-2017, and President of EAIR (European Society for Higher Education), 2013-2016. She has over 15 years’ experience working with international organizations and governments, and 20 years’ experience as Vice President, Dublin Institute of Technology (1995-2014). Ellen is a board member of national agencies, university and higher education/research organizations, and has led and/or been involved in national/institutions reviews and policy advice.

Ellen is internationally recognized for her writings and analysis of rankings on higher education and policy: Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education: The Battle for World-Class Excellence, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2015), and editor, Global Rankings and the Geopolitics of Higher Education (Routledge 2016). Other recent publications include: co-author, The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); and co-editor, The Civic University: Meeting the Leadership and Management Challenges (Edward Elgar 2016). She is co-editor of Research Handbook on Quality, Performance and Accountability in Higher Education (Edward Elgar 2017 forthcoming).

Professor Hamish Coates

Professor Hamish Coates
Australian National University, Australia; Tsinghua University, China
hamishcoates@outlook.com

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Professor Hamish Coates contributes to higher education through research, leadership and development.

Professor Hamish Coates is professor of public policy and global tertiary education expert. He has held executive and academic appointments at major universities and organisations in several countries. He concentrates on improving higher education productivity through innovation of education leadership, engagement and outcomes. He directs the Higher Education Futures Lab, is an Honorary Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, a Tsinghua University Visiting Professor, and Executive Dean of Holmes Institute, Australia’s largest independently owned higher education institution.

He was a Tenured Professor at Tsinghua University’s Institute of Education, Director of the Higher Education Research Division, and Deputy Director of Tsinghua’s Global Research Centre for the Assessment of College and Student Development. Before this he was a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Founding Director of Higher Education Research at the Australian Council for Educational Research, and Program Director at the LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Leadership and Management.

Professor Hans de Witt

Professor Hans de Witt
Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), Department of Higher Education and Leadership of the Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USA.

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Hans de Wit is Director of the ‘Center for International Higher Education’ (CIHE) at Boston College, USA, and professor in International Higher Education at the Department of Higher Education and Leadership of the Lynch School of Education, Boston College.

He is Consulting Editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education (SRHE), the Founding Editor of the ‘Journal of Studies in International Education’ (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE publishers), member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (Springer/Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Associate Editor of International Higher Education, and Co-editor book series Global Perspectives in Higher Education (Sense Publishers). He is member of the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee of the third edition of the Bologna Process Researchers’ conference, Bucharest, November 27-29, 2017.

His latest books are:

  • Georgiana Mihut, Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit. (Eds.). 2017. Understanding Global Higher Education: Insights from Key Global Publications. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers.
  • Georgiana Mihut, Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit (Eds.). 2017. Internationalization of Higher Education: Insights from Key Global Publications. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers.
  • Philip Altbach, Liz Reisberg and Hans de Wit (Eds.). 2017. Responding to massification: differentiation in postsecondary education worldwide. Körber Foundation/Hamburg Transnational University Leadership Council, Bonn/Sense Publishers.
  • Hans de Wit, Jocelyne Gacel-Avila, Elspeth Jones and Nico Jooste (Eds.). 2017. The Globalization of Internationalization: Emerging Voices and Perspectives. Internationalization in Higher Education Series, Routledge.

He publishes a monthly blog in University World News on internationalisation of higher education, www.universityworldnews.com, and contributes to The World View at Inside Higher Ed on a regular basis.

Associate Editor

Dr Tessa DeLaquil, Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University, Denmark.

Proposals And Submissions

Taylor & Francis provide full details on initial proposals and making a submission.

Call to Curate Global Higher Education Policy Contributions

The Joint Editors of Policy Reviews in Higher Education (PRIHE) call for Expressions of Interest from scholars to work as Guest Editors to progress special contributions relating to hot topics in higher education policy. These contributions will engage a group of scholars around important themes, work with the Joint Editors and other networks to convene hybrid global seminars and deliver substantial insights on consequential frontier issues.

Shaping Themes

PRIHE’s Editorial Board and Joint Editors have spotlighted six shaping themes for potential special collections. The themes are deliberately broad. The Joint Editors are looking for new approaches and variations on the themes or alternatives. The compilations should raise questions, insights and issues to be addressed by policy, drawing on experiences from around the world. The shaping themes include:

  • Proving contributions: Restoring public trust in higher education and universities
  • Emerging formations: Transnational, online and private higher education, regulation, ethics
  • Geopolitical upheavals: Collaboration, sovereignty, nationalism, deregulation
  • Global challenges: Sustaining autonomy, academic freedom, purposeful research,

independence

  • Lifelong learning: Valuing higher learning and skills across the lifespan
  • Valuing education: Raising the profile of large-scale teaching and learning.

Editorial Approach

Scholarship, publishing and higher education keep changing, as do opportunities to use scholarly journals to inform and shape change. The Joint Editors invite Guest Editor/s to:

  • Define Guest Editor/s name/s and affiliation/s
  • Embrace one of the above themes
  • Engage a group of inspired scholars
  • Procure three-to-five papers
  • Curate a seminar
  • Work with the Joint Editors on peer review
  • Publish the accepted papers accompanied by an editorial.

Please note that PRIHE enables a range of paper formats and styles. Typically, papers run from 6,000 to 8,000 words in length. A range of start times can be arranged, ideally leveraging and giving prominence to existing zones of activity, momentum and meetings. Collections should aim to be finished within six to nine months. Team-based approaches are often fruitful.

Next Steps

  • Register your interest by sending details (Guest Editor names, theme/s, abstracts, questions, contributors, schedule, key dates) to hamishcoates@outlook.com