Below you find current news, important announcements and updates.
To all readers, authors, reviewers and editors,
It is time for JPHE to take an exciting new step that we hope will create a solid administrative base, clarify our framing and develop our knowledge interests. From tomorrow, our new website under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Library will open here: https://publicera.kb.se/jphe/index
Spread the news to previous and potential new authors!
Read more about JPHE is moving platform!New Conversation: Bridging Higher Education Research to the Reality of Modern Learners
In February 2025, Z.W. Taylor interviewed Allyson Cornett, Director of Research at Trellis Strategies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing higher education and strengthening the workforce in the United States. They discussed Trellis Strategies' focus on financial wellness and its impact on student success. Cornett, who joined Trellis in 2017 and has a background in applied anthropology, shared insights from her experience leading mixed-methods research projects across institutions nationwide. The conversation explored how Trellis Strategies helps colleges and universities understand and address the challenges faced by "modern learners" - today's diverse student population who often have different priorities, backgrounds, and educational journeys compared to traditional students. Despite institutional resource constraints and leadership turnover in higher education, Cornett emphasized the importance of qualitative research to capture students' lived experiences beyond mere statistics. This discussion highlights the crucial intersection of financial wellness, student success metrics, and the ethical considerations of research that genuinely benefits the students it studies.
Read more about New Conversation: Bridging Higher Education Research to the Reality of Modern LearnersAcademic supervision involves several key actors in addition to supervisors and students, who share the same general objectives. Our aim here is to investigate and discuss collective dimensions of degree project supervision practice by examining how supervisors use the acknowledgment of such key actors within the degree project context, in their interaction with supervised students. In what ways do supervisors in their supervision practice acknowledge various actors within the degree project context? What functions may this have in the supervision interaction? Please read more here: Link
Read more about New interesting 'Early view' has just been published!
New Conversation: Professional Development for AI in Education
In December 2024, Z.W. Taylor interviewed Andria Layton, a high school English teacher from South Mississippi. They discussed Andria's innovative approach to introducing artificial intelligence (AI) to educators through a professional development program. Layton, who has witnessed the rapid evolution of technology in education, shared her insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by AI. Despite working in a district with limited resources, she has been pushing for AI integration not only to support student learning but also to enhance teacher self-efficacy and administrative efficiency. This conversation explores the barriers to AI adoption in education, the ethical considerations, and the potential for AI to reshape the future of teaching and learning.
Read more about New Conversation: Professional Development for AI in EducationDear readers, authors, reviewers, editorial team and board members,
I am delighted to announce that our ‘anniversary issue’ has just been published!
For this new issue, JPHE, Vol. 6 No. 5 (2024), we have selected seven papers that we think illustrate the core of the journal. We have also asked three of JPHE’s distinguished Editorial Board members to summarise and comment on three of the 13 issues we have produced since we started. They were invited to select one issue each. The intention is to show readers, reviewers, and authors the high quality we represent, but also the variety and creativity of the papers we produce.
Read more about JPHE's 5 year 'anniversary issue’ has just been published!In November 2024, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor interviewed Dr. Tanja Stampfl, a tenured professor at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX, USA. They discussed the first-year experience course, or a structured class offered by colleges and universities, typically designed to support new students in successfully transitioning to college life. These courses often focus on helping students build essential skills for academic and personal success, such as time management, study techniques, financial literacy, and critical thinking. They also introduce students to campus resources, foster a sense of belonging, and encourage connections with peers and faculty.
While FYE courses can vary across institutions, they generally aim to increase retention and engagement by creating a foundation for students to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally within their new environment.
Read more about New Conversation: The First-Year Experience CourseIn October 2024, JPHE Senior Editor Michael Shaughnessy and Johannes Addido interviewed Dr. Zoltan Glovickl, a Hungarian higher education professional, about about teacher training in his country and the need for more research about effective teachers and educational leaders.
Read more about New Conversation: Higher Education in HungaryDear Readers,
We are delighted to announce that JPHE will be celebrating its 5th anniversary in December. This gives us an opportunity to publish an anniversary issue that focuses on some of the journal’s most urgent, interesting and important questions. For example, we have invited Professor Maresi Nerad, Professor Dennis Beach and Professor Marko Turk from our Editorial Board to comment and reflect upon our latest special issues. Furthermore, we include a fascinating interview with Professor Hannu Hekkinen about his views on what it means to be wise and mature as a researcher in higher education today. The anniversary issue will also include 5 research articles that bring interesting and fresh perspectives to contemporary praxis research. We hope this it sounds exciting. Keep an eye out.
Read more about JPHE 5 year anniversaryIn September 2024, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Dr. Emily Roberts. Dr. Roberts' mission is to inspire and empower early-career PhDs to make the most of their finances. She engages with graduate students and postdoctoral scholars through her Personal Finance for PhDs seminars, coaching, and websites, Personal Finance for PhDs and PhD Stipends. She launched Personal Finance for PhDs shortly after completing her PhD defense in the fall of 2014. Taylor and Roberts spoke about personal finance, graduate stipends, and the importance of actively seeking personal finance education throughout graduate school.
Read more about New Conversation: Personal Finance for PhDsThis new issue includes critiques of academic capitalism, structures and practices, as well as issues of equity, diversity, student transition and classroom learning. Please read more here: JPHE 6(4)
Read more about JPHE has published a new issue!We are pleased to announce the publication of our new special issue in the Journal of Practice in Higher Education, titled “Critiquing the Sacred and the Profane in Higher Education”.
Using the “sacred” and the “profane” as a metaphor for previous and ongoing changes, this special issue delves into the shifting vocabularies that shape the landscape of higher education. It brings together a collection of original research articles and innovative academic writings that critically analyse “sacred” and “profane” terminologies, reflecting shifting normativities, power relations, academic priorities, and institutional practices.
Read more about See our new special issue: “Critiquing the Sacred and the Profane in Higher Education”What is academic citizenship? Through a collection of 17 original research essays, this JPHE special issue invites the reader into an ongoing conversation engaging different standpoints, scales, and interests. It discusses the role of the academic citizen, the conditions defining this role and potential futures, including the purpose of academic citizenship in charting the course forward.
Read more about Just published: Special Issue 'What is Academic Citizenship?'
In February 2024, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Sarah Pauter, Senior Project Manager with John Burton Advocates for Youth, where she works to improve the college retention and graduation rates of homeless and foster youth through legislative advocacy, policy implementation, technical assistance, and training. After spending 17 years in the child welfare system before ultimately emancipating or “aging out,” Sarah earned a Bachelor’s in Social Work from San Diego State University and a Master’s in Public Policy from Northwestern University. Sarah has dedicated her life and career to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young adults. Prior to joining John Burton Advocates for Youth, Sarah was the Founder and CEO of Phenomenal Families, a San Diego-based nonprofit organization that serves expectant and parenting youth involved in the foster care and juvenile probation systems. Her special interests include trauma-informed system improvement, youth organizing, and child abuse prevention. The two discuss how institutions of higher education can support foster youth on their path toward higher education and beyond.
Read more about New Conversation: Supporting Foster Youth in Higher EducationIn January 2024, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Dr. Nathan Cost, Director of Vocational Life and Formation at the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University (Georgia, USA). The two discuss a study by Dr. Cost on the lived experiences of vocational calling among non-denominational graduate seminary students training for ministry and nonprofit roles. Dr. Cost found that despite no denominational affiliation, participants' experiences were still impacted by prior religious backgrounds. Surprisingly, feelings of disorientation and grief were most common in describing their calling journeys. Dr. Cost concludes that calling is an embodied, lifelong phenomenon shaping one's identity, not just a singular career decision. Dr. Cost recommends that institutions validate students' callings and provide adaptable training to equip them for evolving vocational paths in an uncertain future.
Read more about New Conversation: Solving the Reverse Mystery: Vocational Calling and Theological EducationJPHE's production team is happy to announce that we have published a new open Issue which includes innovative research contributions on praxis in higher education.
Read more about Please see our new and highly interesting open Issue: JPHE, 6(1), 2024
In December 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Wu Xie, a fifth year PhD candidate in the Higher Education Student Affairs program at The Ohio State University in Ohio, USA. In this Conversation, Wu discusses her research interests, including how organizations in the higher education landscape can work collaboratively to promote the resilience of minoritized students. In an era where United States government(s) are actively restricting the ability of institutions of higher education to facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus, Wu’s work is critically important to understand how minoritized students can still be cared for on campus.
Read more about New Conversation: Inclination Towards Trendy Terms vs. Genuine Willingness to Work Toward Diversity, Equity, and InclusionJPHE's production team is happy to announce that we today, of all days, have publish a new Early view on "Deliberative leadership: Sustainable practices for public universities?" In this paper, professor C. Sugrue and professor T.D. Solbrekke discuss current competing and conflicting discourses on leadership in higher education. Please read more on this highly important topic here: https://journals.hb.se/jphe/article/view/422
Read more about JPHE has just published a new Early view!
In Castillo, Powledge Gaddy and Reyes's paper A case study of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in hiring practices we read about the complexity of incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into higher education spaces. The purpose is to elaborate on how a team of HR professionals at a large flagship university in the United States developed a plan to help hiring managers increase diversity and equity during the job life cycle.
Read more under our current publications.
Read more about JPHE has published a new Early ViewIn December 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Mallorie Smith, the Financial Wellness Coordinator for Mississippi State University and the Student Money Management Center. In this Conversation, Mallorie discusses how her background in psychology, business, and instructional technology informs her current role educating students on personal finance topics like budgeting, investing, and student loans. She highlights the need for financial wellness programs since most students lack money knowledge, even those with wealthy parents. The goal is to empower students through an approachable educational space to talk finances openly. Smith argues these programs benefit individuals and institutions by reducing student financial stress and creating more capable alumni.
Read more about New Conversation: Financial Wellness in Higher Education“Sometimes you have to push things along” – Linguistic Access to Higher Education
A Conversation with Marleen Whiteley
In October 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Marleen Whiteley, a Senior Project Manager working for the Swedish Council for Higher Education. In this Conversation, Marleen described the Swedish-English higher education dictionary she helps manage, which provides standardized terminology translations to help international students and educators. We discussed how the United States (U.S.) lacks centralized resources like this, but it could help democratize information for first-generation and non-English speaking students. We agreed starting small by translating basic admissions and financial aid terminology could help lower access barriers in the U.S. and across the world.
Read more about New Conversation: Linguistic Access to Higher EducationJPHE is dedicated to praxis in higher education. This means that the concept of praxis is at the centre of the journal profile and our understanding of higher education. The concept is multidimensional and addresses both philosophical questions on what may constitute meaningful or worthwhile academic practices, but also critical and political questions on structures, conditions, power, and identity. Our previous issues are available here: https://journals.hb.se/jphe/
Read more about The Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) is calling for papers for its 2024 issuesJPHE'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)
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.
Read more about New Conversation: Sweden and the United States, More Similar Than One Would Think and Not in the Ways Many BelieveIn 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.
Read more about New Conversation: Policy Changes in Changing TimesFaculty 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.
Read more about New Conversation: Faculty Affairs in Changing Educational SystemsToday 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
Read more about Early ViewsMental 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.
Read more about New Conversation: Mental Health Services in 21st Century Higher EducationJust 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.
Read more about New Conversation: Education in a Time of WarOn 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.
Read more about New Conversation: Racial Equity in Higher EducationOn 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.
Read more about New Conversation: What is Higher Education’s Moral Obligation to its Students?JPHE will continue to innovate in 2023.
Read more about New from JPHE: ConversationsDear 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.
Read more about New Issue in JPHEDear 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.
Read more about Update on ongoing activities in JPHEAcademics 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 about NEW UPDATE Call for papers: Special Issue "What is academic citizenship"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.
Read more about Extended deadline! Call for Papers: Special Issue "Critiquing the Sacred and the Profane in Higher Education"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).
Read more about JPHE first issue 2022The 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/.
Read more about First call for papers: 2022JPHE'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)
Read more about JPHE's first special issue now published!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
Read more about JPHE's first Special issueWe 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
Read more about JPHE’s new issue has just been published!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.
Read more about Bruce Macfarlane to become JPHE's Guest EditorWe 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).
Read more about 2021 Special Issue Coming Soon!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.
Read more about Second Call for Papers, 2021Today we present our new issue JPHE, 2(2), 2020 on our new journal platform.
Read more about We have just published our latest issue!
February 28, 2025 - Allyson Cornett
January 3, 2025 - Andria Layton
December 1, 2024 - Dr. Tanja Stampfl
November 5, 2024 - Dr. Zoltan Gloviczkl
October 1, 2024 - Dr. Emily Roberts
February 1, 2024 - Dr. Nathan Cost
December 8, 2023 - Mallorie Smith
October 25, 2023 - Marleen Whiteley
September 1, 2023 - Dr. Reed Curtis
June 1, 2023 - Dr. Aresh Assadi
