About this journal

Higher Education Research & Development (HERD) is an international peer-reviewed journal, established in 1982 as the principal learned journal of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA).

Please note that the journal does not publish:

• studies that do not establish their significance and originality
• case studies that are not contextualised and theorised
• quantitative studies that lack critical discussion of the results
• single discipline or single institution studies which do not consider implications for the broader field of higher education
• qualitative studies that are descriptive but lack critical analysis and discussion of wider implications
• school or vocational education research
• book reviews

Associate Editors 
Subra Ananthram – Curtin University, Australia
Sally Baker – University of New South Wales, Australia
Sarah Barradell – Swinburne University, Australia
Wendy Bastalich – University of South Australia, Australia
Lia Blaj-Ward – Nottingham Trent University, UK
Aras Bozkurt – Anadolu University, Turkey
Tina Byrom – Loughborough University, UK
Susan Carter – University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Mattia Cattaneo – University of Bergamo, Italy
Sin-Wang Chong – University of St Andrews, UK
Sherran Clarence – Nottingham Trent University, UK
Gail Crimmins – University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Kun Dai – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Vincent Donche – University of Antwerp, Belgium
Stephanie Doyle – Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Dely Lazarte Elliot – University of Glasgow, UK
Tracy Fortune – La Trobe University, Australia
Susanne Garvis – Swinburne University, Australia
Andrew Gunn – University of Leeds, UK
Fei Guo – Tsinghua University, China
Anesa Hosein – University of Surrey, UK
Giedre Kligyte – University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Vitomir Kovanović – The University of South Australia, Australia
Sylvie Lomer – University of Manchester, UK
Lilia Mantai – The University of Sydney, Australia
Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh – La Trobe University, Melbourne
Juuso Henrik Nieminen – The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pii-Tuulia Nikula – Eastern Institute of Technology, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Julie Nyanjom – Edith Cowan University, Australia
Edward Palmer – University of Adelaide, Australia
Thanh Pham – Monash University, Australia
Jing Qi – RMIT, Australia
Gayani Samarawickrema – Victoria University, Australia
Garth Stahl – University of Queensland, Australia
Massimiliano Tani Bertuol – University New South Wales, Australia
Kate Thomson, University of Sydney, Australia
Charles Bland Tomkinson – University of Manchester, UK
Sheila Trahar – Bristol University, UK
Chia-Wen Tsai – Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Jonathan Tummons – Durham University, UK
Lisa Unangst – Ohio University, USA

Editorial Advisory Board 
Sandra Acker – University of Toronto, Canada
Ann Austin – Michigan State University, USA
Jennifer Case – Virginia Tech, USA
Sheng-Ju Chan – National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Kelly Coate – Richmond American University London, UK
Hamish Coates – Tsinghua University, China
Shelda Debowski – Higher Education Consultant, Australia
Barbara Grant – University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Futao Huang – Hiroshima University, Japan
Jeroen Huisman – Ghent University, Belgium
Denise Jackson – Edith Cowan University, Australia
Bruce Macfarlane – University of Southampton, UK
Simon Marginson – University of Oxford, UK
Elaine Martin – Victoria University, Australia
Elizabeth McKinley – The University of Melbourne, Australia
Joshua Ka Ho Mok – Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Fazal Rizvi – University of Melbourne, Australia
Peter Roberts – University of Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Demetrios Sampson – Curtin University, Australia
Malcolm Tight – Lancaster University, UK
Rui Yang – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Best Article Award
• Associate Editor of the Year Award
• Reviewers of the Year Award