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Organisation: Curtin University
Lead Researcher: Tim Pitman
Type of Publications: Journal article
Year Published: 2013
This paper considers how the recognition of lifelong and life-wide learning might be used to enhance higher education access for a larger and more diverse group of students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The paper presents selected findings from a larger research study of the admission policies and practices of different types of universities.
Type of Publication: Journal article
Organisation: Monash University
Lead Researcher: Genine A. Hook
This paper aims to examine some of the ways sole parents sought recognition as postgraduate students in Australian universities. Drawing from the experiences of sole parents in relation to supervisory relationships, academic conference attendance, academic publications and timetabling, I have examined how these factors create the conditions of account for sole parent postgraduates as they seek to be recognised by the academy and in their emerging recognition of the academy.
Organisation: University of Sydney
Lead Researcher: Lucy Mercer-Mapstone
Type of Publications: Research report
Year Published: 2022
This international study explored the strategies employed to support students to remain engaged during COVID-19 and how these were perceived by student groups, particularly those from minoritised and intersectional backgrounds.
Type of Publication: Research report
Organisation: University of Tasmania
Lead Researcher: Robin Katersky Barnes
Year Published: 2019
The study defined student influencers and community characteristics that supported positive higher education outcomes. Case studies identified three community themes for student encouragement and support in higher education. These included the valuing of education at all levels; a strong sense of connectedness and belonging; and a narrative of success including involvement in higher education.
Organisation: La Trobe University
Lead Researcher: Buly Cardak
Year Published: 2017
This research study examined regional student participation and migration by use of novel data sources and analytic techniques. The data and techniques utilised within the study provide insights that are relevant to contemporary higher education policy challenges and reform processes.
Organisation: Educational Philosophy and Theory
Lead Researcher: Michael A. Peters
Year Published: 2020
We reproduce a number of think pieces from scholars who indicate their determination to use the COVID-19 crisis to describe their experiences of working through the current conditions, reconsider some contradictions that have long existed in the modern systems of higher education, and imagine new pedagogic possibilities in which we have no other option but to experiment, under the conditions of distress, uncertainty and complexity.
Organisation: NCSEHE
Year Published: 2014
This article explores the relationship between mass education, higher education quality and policy development in Australia in the period 2008–2014, during which access to higher education was significantly increased. Over this time the discursive relationship between mass higher education and higher education quality shifted from conceptualising quality as a function of economic productivity to market competition and efficiency.
Lead Researcher: Louise Pollard
Type of Publications: NCSEHE Fellowship report
Year Published: 2018
NCSEHE Research Fellowship found remote students are among the most educationally disadvantaged in Australia with complex support requirements, distinct from their regional and metropolitan peers. The report called for universities and government to develop a nuanced understanding of this cohort to enable more remote students to realise their potential.
Type of Publication: NCSEHE Fellowship report
Organisation: University of Southern Queensland
Lead Researcher: Dr Rahul Ganguly
Year Published: 2015
This research examined the relationship between resilience, career optimism, wellbeing, academic satisfaction and academic achievement. The research was based on a web based survey of 274 predominantly mature-age students, followed by interviews with 30 high-achieving students.
Lead Researcher: Sarah O’Shea
The aim of this article is to foreground some of the more contentious and ambiguous nuances of the term ‘widening participation’, in order to better consider equity in, through and beyond higher education.