Society for Research into Higher Education

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The Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) is a UK-based international learned society concerned to advance understanding of higher education, especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by systematic research and scholarship. The Society aims to be the leading international society in the field, as to both the support and the dissemination of research.

More fully, its broad aims are to:

  • Stimulate new forms of research and inquiry into higher education as a field of study
  • Assist in developing research capacity in relation to the field
  • Encourage and support those coming into the field of higher education studies
  • Develop a network of scholars and researchers in the field of higher education studies
  • Offer fora for the presentation of research and scholarship in the field
  • Promote the development and widening of research methodologies in the field
  • Provide opportunities for the publication of research and scholarship in the field
  • Develop opportunities through which researchers in the field can engage with policy makers, practitioners within higher education and other potential interested parties so that policy and practices may be shaped by research

Membership of the society is open to all those concerned with research into higher education, and practitioners in the field.

SRHE has specialist 'network' groups, which include: Academic Practice Digital University Employability, Enterprise and Work-based Learning Higher Education Close-up Higher Education Policy International Research and Researchers Learning, Teaching And Assessment Newer Researchers Postgraduate Issues South West Regional Network Technical, Professional and Vocational Higher Education The Student Access and Experience Network

The SRHE publishes four journals:

  • Higher Education Quarterly
  • Research into Higher Education Abstracts
  • Studies in Higher Education
  • Policy Reviews in Higher Education

and a book series with Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

References[]

  • Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Reports 1965 - 2013
  • SRHE Mission statement 2008

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