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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This innovative Research Agenda critically reflects on the state of the art and offers inspiration for future higher education research across a variety of geographical, disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. It explores the impact of Covid-19, and the need to re-engage with the Global South and reconsider conventional paradigms and assumptions. Leading international contributors address a set of salient issues, ranging from research on macro-level themes to meso and micro-level phenomena. Chapters examine the changing patterns in globalization, Europeanization, challenges to mobility and open systems, and trends in system governance, funding, and quality assurance. Organizational change, research performance, university networks, curriculum improvement and global citizenship are also analysed. This forward-thinking Research Agenda aims to reach beyond the Western perspective on higher education and will be an insightful read for both seasoned scholars and newcomers with an interest in higher education policy and research in a changing global context.

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'Higher education, and higher education research, are extremely important and expanding areas of activity. This book offers elements of a contemporary research agenda for higher education across the globe, with specific reference to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers compelling and entertaining insights for all those concerned with the field and its future development, and should stimulate further work.' - Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, UK 'This important book highlights the benefits to higher education research of increasing international cooperation. Contributors from different disciplines explore whether the key challenges are similar worldwide or specific to certain regions, countries or sectors of higher education. Growth and quality enhancement in this domain have not only contributed to concepts of typical academic consolidation, but have also led to growing interest in stimulating each other to explore jointly possible futures of higher education.' - Ulrich Teichler, University of Kassel, Germany

'A Research Agenda for Global Higher Education is a welcome addition to the academic literature on evolving perspectives to conceptualize and conduct research on universities. This outstanding book succeeds in challenging all the contributing authors to go beyond the classical framework for analyzing universities and explore new approaches that could be more relevant for university research in the rapidly evolving global context. The book presents, in a provocative manner, a comprehensive review of the growing number and variety of research issues related to the mission of universities and the many facets of operation that affect their performance and impact. Jeroen Huisman and Marijk van der Wende should be congratulated for putting this excellent book together. By proposing new research questions and recognizing emerging paradigms that may be more appropriate to understand recent trends affecting research on universities, including the multifaceted consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic viewed as a global experiment , this stimulating book provides a fresh intellectual perspective that is likely to become the new reference for guiding policy analysts and academics all over the world in thinking more holistically and critically about research on universities.' - Jamil Salmi, Diego Portales University, Chile 'Higher education, and higher education research, are extremely important and expanding areas of activity. This book offers elements of a contemporary research agenda for higher education across the globe, with specific reference to the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. It offers compelling and entertaining insights for all those concerned with the field and its future development, and should stimulate further work.' - Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, UK 'This important book highlights the benefits to higher education research of increasing international cooperation. Contributors from different disciplines explore whether the key challenges are similar worldwide or specific to certain regions, countries or sectors of higher education. Growth and quality enhancement in this domain have not only contributed to concepts of typical academic consolidation, but have also led to growing interest in stimulating each other to explore jointly possible futures of higher education.' - Ulrich Teichler, University of Kassel, Germany

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Edited by Jeroen Huisman, Professor of Higher Education, Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium and Marijk van der Wende, Distinguished Faculty Professor of Higher Education, Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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