Higher Education Research Group

In case you haven't seen it, last week Advance HE published the latest Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) report. advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/…

Number of universities dropping Elsevier deal hits double figures. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-ope…

The closing date for the call for papers is 15th Feb - so if you're a MacIntyre scholar and would like a few days in Edinburgh in July....get writing! macintyreanenquiry.org/isme-2026-conf… @MorayHouse

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - scot: Vol 35, No 1. Special issue on Higher Education just out. euppublishing.com/toc/scot/35/1

@ColBrough @MorayHouse @EdinburghUni Wicked Problems sounds like an interesting course. Hope it went well!

The end of day one in semester two. It started with Educational Studies 3 and ended with Wicked Problems: Reason and Rhetoric, a packed day of teaching. Good to be back on campus and great to see our students @MorayHouse @EdinburghUni

Happy to share that our volume The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education has now been published lnkd.in/eEMuDZ6H Immensely grateful to authors of 16 chapters for their excellent contribution!

Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education is hiring a full professor in Inclusive Education. Please see the advert: timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

Professor Nick Prior nominated for Japan’s Kyoto Prize Sociologist Professor Nick Prior has received a nomination for the 2026 Kyoto Prize, Japan’s most prestigious private award for lifetime achievement in the arts and sciences. More: edin.ac/4oAmcPB

Conference to be hosted at @MorayHouse next July

Justifying your paper *without relying on your findings* is key. So many papers read like they are setting out to prove something. Start with your RQ. Tell us why your RQ matters. If your RQ doesn't matter, your findings might not either. Or I might think your findings drove the project.

Foster Family Friends, it would be great to hear your thoughts on siblings in care. Please join us and let's discuss our experiences. #FosterFamilies #CareExperienced @EdinburghUni @MorayHouse

Please help our colleague with this research project if you teach in any university, anywhere in the world.

🥳 NEW PAPER🥳 We propose a reflexivity model grounded in ethics of care to navigate researcher vulnerabilities—emotional, ethical & professional. 😉 the paper is not exhaustive but we hope it speaks to you🙏🏻 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

“young people from ethnic minority backgrounds with high school attainment are slightly more likely to go to university than high attainers from white British backgrounds, lower attainers from ethnic minority backgrounds are considerably more likely to” wonkhe.com/blogs/causes-a…

Latest blog from HERG on what counts as success in PhD - blogs.ed.ac.uk/higher_educati…

Are you a care experienced adult (16+ years) or the supporter of care experienced children/adults in Scotland (e.g. foster parent)? If so, we invite you to come to one of our ‘Sibling Cafes’ in May (in-person or an online). To sign up and for more info: edin.ac/4cIYdcs

Our colleagues' survey on university teachers' views on use of GenAI - potential harms and benefits is open, grateful for retweets @herdsa_conf @SussexCHEER @OISEUoT_CIHE @HigherEd_SIG @HEGoingGlobal @BC_CIHE @RoyalSocEd app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/un…

HERG was delighted to host visitors from Toledo University - students and faculty on the PhD Higher Education Administration and Policy programme @MorayHouse

‘A hard rain is going to fall on universities… The days of the unaccountable ivory tower are over.’ ‘It’s reducing and simplifying complexities to a single soundbite and trying to bully people in an argument doesn’t seem a satisfactory way of doing it.’ thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

Questionnaire on attitudes of academic staff towards the use of GenAI in learning and teaching now open.