Announcements

Below you find current news, important announcements and updates.

• JPHE's 2nd special issue is now published!

  2023-09-05

  JPHE's 2nd special issue, "From a praxis perspective: Being and becoming a doctoral supervisor"has now been published!

  The issue is an intriguing collection of articles that bring together researchers who have taught and studied in a specific doctoral supervision course and who are interested in the being and becoming of supervisors.

  Congratulations to the Guest Editors, Rebecca Rouse, Andreas Kalckert, and Kathleen Mahon, and all contributing authors for an original, informative, and insightful special issue.

  On behalf of the JPHE Editorial Team,
  Kalypso Filippou and Melina Aarnikoivu (Handling Editors)

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• New Conversation: Sweden and the United States, More Similar Than One Would Think and Not in the Ways Many Believe

  2023-08-28

  In August 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Dr. Reed Curtis, a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Educational Work at the University of Borås in Sweden. Dr. Curtis originally hails from South Carolina, USA, and in this conversation, Dr. Curtis mused about international differences between the USA and Sweden and how common misconceptions about both countries can be understood.

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• New Conversation: Policy Changes in Changing Times

  2023-07-24

  In June 2023,  JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Myra Barrera of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Myra's research and professional interests include student support services, particularly focused on gender equity through Title IX policies and practices. As a Title IX investigator, Myra discussed the changes to Title IX and the uncertain path ahead for United States higher education contexts.

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• New Conversation: Faculty Affairs in Changing Educational Systems

  2023-06-30

  Faculty Affairs in Changing Educational Systems

  A Conversation with Dr. Frank Xu

  In May 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Dr. Frank Xu. Dr. Xu's research focuses on intercultural communication. He has now been residing in the United Kingdom for over 10 years. During that time, he also conducted research in various EU countries and some Asian countries. This free flowing conversation tackled many topics, most critically the role that faculty may play in recruiting students to specific academic programs.

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• Early Views

  2023-06-12

  Today we are publishing our first article in JPHE's new section "Early views". From now on all papers will be published here before they are assigned to JPHE's Open issues. This to speed up the process from submission to publication. View the publication here: Hektoen and Wallin

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• New Conversation: Mental Health Services in 21st Century Higher Education

  2023-06-01

  Mental Health Services in 21st Century Higher Education

  A Conversation with Dr. Aresh Assadi, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  On May 4, 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Dr. Aresh Assadi. Dr. Assadi received his doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he currently works as the Director of the Counseling Center. Dr. Assadi also serves on the board of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the Arkansas chapter, and is the research connections chair.

  Dr. Assadi’s work has required him to set up different mental health literacy programs, bringing in different speakers from around the nation to come, do webinars, and open up conversations about mental health in higher education contexts. As someone who just completed his doctoral work, Dr. Assadi shared his professional experience as a counselor, a scholar-practitioner in the space of mental health and wellness, and what higher education needs to do to better serve the mental health needs of its stakeholders.

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• New Conversation: Education in a Time of War

  2023-05-08

  Just after a week of research activities at Department of education, University of Borås, in Sweden, during which visiting Associate Professor Marko Turk was actively engaged, JPHE’s EiC, Petra Angervall, decided to follow up on a few questions that were raised during these days, for JPHE’s “New Conversations.”

  The purpose of the conversation was thus to highlight some of the questions that Marko Turk had brought up in lectures and workshops during his stay. Additionally, it aimed to delve a little deeper into some of Marko's interesting and challenging experiences of working in Russia.

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• New Conversation: Racial Equity in Higher Education

  2023-05-04

  On April 25, 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Dr. Herlanda Hampton, hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas. Dr. Hampton has a doctorate in education from the University of Arkansas Little Rock, and Dr. Hampton also holds a Master of Science in Sport Administration from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Currently, Dr. Hampton lives in Anchorage, Alaska and is the Scholarship Program Officer for the Alaska Community Foundation. 

  As a Black woman critically invested in racial equity within higher education broadly, Dr. Hampton spoke about the need for institutions to fundamentally change in order to truly promote equity for minoritized populations.

  Originally published on May 4, 2023.

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• New Conversation: What is Higher Education’s Moral Obligation to its Students?

  2023-04-01

  On March 6, 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Jase Kugiya, a native of Hawaii and a doctoral student in the program for Higher Education Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. He currently serves as a graduate research associate at Project M.A.L.E.S. working at the Research Institute while also helping with the Texas Education Consortium for Male Students of Color.

  Originally published on April 1, 2023.

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• New from JPHE: Conversations

  2023-03-27

  JPHE will continue to innovate in 2023.

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• New Issue in JPHE

  2023-03-17

  Dear authors, readers, reviewers, and Board members,

  We have just published a new issue in JPHE, Vol. 5 No. 1, 2023.

  This new issue includes highly relevant and interesting contributions that describe and challenge some of the most important aspects of higher education practices today.

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• Update on ongoing activities in JPHE

  2023-02-01

  Dear readers, authors and reviewers,

  2023 will be an exciting year for Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. The team is currently working on publishing a new open issue, which we hope will be public within 4-6 weeks. We are also engaged in several interesting projects. 

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• NEW UPDATE Call for papers: Special Issue "What is academic citizenship"

  2022-07-05

  Academics and wider publics alike highlight the conflicting and often frustrating demands that are levelled against the university academic: be engaged in society, be truth-seeking and objective, be problem-solving, be innovative and entrepreneurial, be independent, and contribute!

  With this special issue, we aim to create a collection of thought-provoking essays about where these complexities leave the figure of ‘the academic citizen’ and about which futures can be imagined for academic citizenship. This implies many additional questions, such as who qualifies as an academic citizen, what society one is a citizen of, and how the notions of ‘academic’, ‘society’ and ‘citizens’ relate.

  We welcome contributions that inquire into the future(s) of academic citizenship in a university which will not go back to what it was in an often-idealised past. We hope for a number of short academic essays of max. 3000 words; thought-provoking pieces which pointedly discuss important problems of academic citizenship, or new ideas for academic citizenship. The essays are stylistically freer than an academic article and references should be kept in the range of 10-15.    Read More Read more about NEW UPDATE Call for papers: Special Issue "What is academic citizenship"

• Extended deadline! Call for Papers: Special Issue "Critiquing the Sacred and the Profane in Higher Education"

  2022-04-20

  Extended deadline: 31 December 2022

  From a historical perspective what is considered sacred or profane has shifted over time in higher education (HE). Terms such as ‘collaboration’, ‘internationalisation’, ‘collegiality’, ‘active’ and ‘deep learning’ are part of the current sacred vocabulary of contemporary HE and  academic key concepts, such as ‘learning outcomes’ have been imported into institutional settings, sanctified within managerial discourse with a possible impact both on belief systems and practices. This does not imply that some of these terms are not contested, especially by more critical members of the academic community, and operationalised in ways that their originators had never intended. Nevertheless, terms widely used in both the academic and managerial lexicon are rarely subjected to critical questioning or attention given to their transition into mantras in institutional settings influencing academic discourses and practises in the process.

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• JPHE first issue 2022

  2022-02-07

  In the opening line of the first issue of JPHE in 2019, the editorial team posed the following pertinent and critically reflective question: ‘Does the higher education research community really need another research journal?’ (The Editorial Team, 2019, p. 1). In their editorial, they provide a well-argued case for answering this question in the affirmative. The journal’s policy statement also makes a good case as to why JPHE is distinctive defining education as ‘a moral and political activity’ and emphasising the way in which ‘the journal is committed to research aimed at the transformation of existing practices and conditions in higher education.’ (JPHE, 2022, para. 1). Please read more in our new issue 2022 4(1).

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• First call for papers: 2022

  2021-11-10

  The Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) is now calling for papers for its 2022 issues. JPHE is a journal dedicated to high quality research on, or scholarship related to, praxis within higher education teaching, learning, research, and activities aimed at impact on wider society (e.g., policy analysis, activist research, or capacity building). Our previous issues are available here: https://journals.hb.se/jphe/.

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• JPHE's first special issue now published!

  2021-11-06

  JPHE's very first special issue, focussing on critical intercultural education in higher education, is now published! 

  Entitled 'From ‘intercultural-washing’ to meaningful intercultural education: Revisiting higher education practice', this compelling collection challenges prevailing discourses and practices, and prompts university educators to think about our own understandings of, references to, and engagement with, intercultural education, and the notion of culture.

  Congratulations to the Guest Editors, Mélodine Sommier, Malgorzata Lahti, and Anssi Roiha, and all contributing authors, for a highly relevant, interesting, and thought-provoking special issue.

  Kathleen Mahon and Lill Langelotz (Handling Editors; on behalf of the JPHE Editorial Team)

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• JPHE's first Special issue

  2021-10-28

  We are very happy to announce that our next issue in JPHE will be our first 'Special issue'. The Special issue will be published within hours from now and on a very interesting, highly relevant topic:  From ‘intercultural-washing’ to meaningful intercultural education: Revisiting higher education practice.

  Please keep your eyes out.

  /The Editorial team

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• JPHE’s new issue has just been published!

  2021-08-23

  We are pleased to announce the publication of the new issue of Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. In this fourth issue you can read articles in five different section:
  ·         From the editors
  ·         Research Articles
  ·         Response to a previously published article on JPHE
  ·         Interviews
  ·         Notes from the Field

  In the Editorial, Angervall shares some of her thoughts on the journal’s status and where it is is heading.

  The three research articles discuss various topics, including Taylor’s An argument for polylingual discourse in U.S. higher education, Fremstad’s The (trans)formative power of purpose and projectivity, Beach’s Institutional management praxis and the logic of capital. Then, Hopwood by making the theory of practice architectures dangerous responds to a previously published article on JPHE. Shaughnessy’s interview with Gerald Cupchik portrays experiences of Mentoring in Higher Education. Finally, R. G. Jurado and T. Pettersson overview lecturer’s experiences during the mandatory online education due to the pandemics.

  You can access JPHE, 3(1), 2021 via: https://journals.hb.se/jphe

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• Bruce Macfarlane to become JPHE's Guest Editor

  2021-05-28

  We are delighted to welcome Bruce Macfarlane as a Guest Editor in JPHE’s editorial team. Bruce is a distinguished professor of higher education and Head of School of Education at Bristol, UK. His expertise and insights on research, teaching, and development in higher education will contribute immensely to the development of the journal.

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• 2021 Special Issue Coming Soon!

  2021-05-24

  We are pleased to announce that JPHE’s first special issue is due to be published in the (northern) autumn this year: 

  From ‘intercultural-washing’ to meaningful intercultural education: Revisiting teaching practices in tertiary education 

  Guest Editors: Mélodine Sommier (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Anssi Roiha (HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the Netherlands), and Malgorzata Lahti (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). 

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• Second Call for Papers, 2021

  2021-03-01

  The Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) is calling for papers for its 2021 issues. JPHE is a journal dedicated to high quality research on, or related to, praxis within higher education  teaching, learning, research, and activities aimed at impact on wider society (e.g., policy influence,  activist research, or capacity building). Our previous issues are available here. 

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• We have just published our latest issue!

  2020-12-17

  Today we present our new issue JPHE, 2(2), 2020 on our new journal platform. 

   

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