Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite 'proper'knowledge–it's too political
or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of 'proper'knowledge? Who defines …

The role of emotions in learning and teaching has largely been neglected in educational
literature, particularly in higher education. Yet there are signs of increased interest in …

In many regions, the past decade has been characterised by significant transformations of
models of organisation and evaluation of academic work. These include processes of …

This article explores the emotional responses to higher education of students with
dependent children, and draws on 68 in‐depth interviews conducted with student‐parents in …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Materialities and Mobilities in Education develops new arguments
about the ways in which educational processes can be analysed. Drawing on a recent interest …

What do meaningful connections in learning and teaching look like, and how might we foster
these? How might the concept of mattering be helpful for our understanding of higher …

This article deploys a collective biographical methodology as a political and epistemological
intervention in order to explore the emotional and affective politics of academic work for …

This paper examines factors driving the agentic practices of young women who are privately
educated. The analysis informing this paper comes from a three-year study, in which 91 …

This article attends to the affective-political dimensions of doctoral aspiration. It considers
why doctoral students continue to hope for an 'academic good life'in spite of the depressed …

In aggressively neo-liberalized higher education systems and in 'high-performing'research
units—typically academic schools in high-ranking research universities—research …