A strong sense of student belonging is often emphasised as essential to higher education. This emphasis is often supported by the positive relationship between belonging and student perceptions of quality (Bridgeman, 2019; MIT Teaching + Learning Lab, 2023). Building on the previous blog Belonging & Learning (Menner, 2023), we aim to discuss alternative concepts toContinue reading “Nomadic analysis of belonging”
Ryan Menner
Higher Education – and Business Education – at the centre of global challenges
Academic conferences are important and unique opportunities for scholars to stress-test works in a collegial, creative, and critical spaces. I reflect on two works I have recently presented at the 35th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Research (CHER) Conference and the British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference. Action research in Higher Education The first paperContinue reading “Higher Education – and Business Education – at the centre of global challenges “
Research in the backyard: Integrating research & evaluation to (re)shape Business Education
The University of Sydney Business School’s: Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group (DI BERG) mission is to “interrogate the future of business education and how the forces that shape the role and focus of Business Schools influences how we design for a better education”. This blog will show how targeted program evaluation data canContinue reading “Research in the backyard: Integrating research & evaluation to (re)shape Business Education”
Reimagining the student experience
Our understanding of people who study at universities, and their experiences, are often shaped by a range of context-specific and broader demographic categories. Targeting specific groupings are often central to university agendas, policy and funding; and are informed by large quantitative datasets on student experience. Whilst important, overemphasis of these categories have particular implications forContinue reading “Reimagining the student experience”