Huisman, Jeroen editor. Tight, Malcolm editor. text United Kingdom Emerald Group Publishing Limited c2015 First edition. monographic xiv, 331 pg ; 24 cm. This volume contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education. List of contributors -- Editorial introduction -- The use of institutional theory in higher education research / Yuzhuo Cai and Yohannes Mehri -- The role of political and policy studies in higher education policy research / Andrew Gunn -- Evaluative research in higher education policy analysis / Murray Saunders, Cristina Sin and Steven Dempster -- Event history analysis: a primer for higher education researchers / T. Austin Lacy -- Efficiency in higher education: requirements, theory, methods and decision areas / Matthias Klumpp -- Three methods, four different outcomes! How to test the reliability and validity of a graduate survey competence scale / Mareike Landmann, Emilia Kmiotek-Meier, Daniel Lachmann and Jennifer Lorenz -- The change laboratory in higher education: research-intervention using activity theory / Brett Bligh and Michelle Flood -- What works? A critique of appreciative inquiry as a research method/ology / Lynn Clouder and Virginia King -- Images in research on teaching and learning in higher education / Erika Löfström, Anne Nevgi, Elisabeth Wegner and Mari Karm -- Exploring doctoral examiner judgements through the lenses of habermas and epistemic cognition / Neville Clement, Terence Lovat, Allyson Holbrook, Margaret Kiley, Sid Bourke, Brian Paltridge, Sue Starfield, Hedy Fairbairn and Dennis M. McInerney -- Theorising academic development as an academic discipline? Exploring academic developers' ways of knowing, theorising and use of methods / Megan Y.C.A. Kek and Sara Hammer -- Theorising inequality: two-dimensional participatory justice and higher education research / Andrew Morrison -- A normative framework or an emerging theory? The capability approach in higher education research / Ana Sofia Ribeiro -- Engineering phenomenography / Peter Gibbings, John Lidstone and Christine Bruce -- The narrative approach in higher education research / António Magalhães and Amélia Veiga. edited by Jeroen Huisman and Malcolm Tight Includes bibliographical references Education, Higher Research Education, Higher Research LB2326.3 T42 2015 378.0072 178560287X 9781785602870 2017304358 UOEL 000 20221012153327.0 22245993 eng