Driverless cars with artificial intelligence (AI) and automated supermarkets run by
collaborative robots (cobots) working without human supervision have sparked off new …

“The pandemic is a portal.” In the words of the novelist scholar Arundhati Roy, the COVID-19
pandemic is not merely an epic calamity. It has opened up a new space, a portal, to rethink …

The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in
universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is …

In this paper, we present results from an extensive survey of United Kingdom (UK) university
academics investigating satisfaction with senior managers and university governance: the …

“The present-day university has become a hot topic in several sociology, anthropology and
philosophy subfields. Filip Vostal's debut monograph on the institutional transformations and …

If there is one thing all university rankings have in common, it is that they are the target of
widespread criticism. This article takes the many challenges university rankings are facing …

This essay offers a critical engagement with the ideal of policy relevant environmental
knowledge. Using examples in environmental governance and conservation, it argues that …

(Handbook) presents an up-to-date scholarly research on global trends in comparative
education and policy research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly …

This book considers how a culture of 'competitive accountability'in UK higher education
produces multiple tensions, contradictions and paradoxes that are destabilizing and …

The use of indicators in research policy and evaluation is widely perceived as problematic.
Responding to demands for explicit normative framings in STI governance, I propose an …