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Professor Paul Trowler

Professor Emeritus

Research Overview

I am an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the Society for Research into Higher Education (FSRHE). My full CV can be viewed . My work on Academic Tribes and Territories is well-known but my interests also range across many areas of higher education research and consultancy. I apply policy sociology and social practice lenses across domains of research and evaluation which broadly concern policy production and enactment in different higher education contexts. I work with an eye to making a difference: 'enhancement' is a key watchword. I have advised institutional leaders, higher education organizations and change agents in higher education around the world for many years. I am keen to enhance doctoral education and have several and to do this.

Research Interests

Paul has researched, published and produced reports in the areas of:

Academic disciplinary differences and academic cultures (“Academic Tribes and Territories”)
Doctoral supervisory practices
Student engagement in higher education
Departmental leadership in higher education
The ‘teaching-research nexus’ in higher education
Cultures and change in higher education (“teaching and learning regimes”)
The enhancement of learning and teaching in higher education: policy production and enactment
Institutional change in higher education
Social practice theory/socio-material theory
Insider research and ethnographic research in higher education
Doctoral research into higher education
Supporting doctoral learning online
Centres for Excellence – evaluation studies
Scottish Quality Enhancement Framework – evaluation studies
Subject Centres – evaluation studies
Higher Education Funding Council for England – evaluation study
Strategic development in higher education institutions – evaluation study

Downloads of many publications, keynote talks, research reports etc. are available at .

Paul was the initiator of and main organizer for the first three Higher Education Close Up conferences as well as a more recent one. These are devoted to fine-grained research into higher education.

Profile

I engage in research, evaluation and development work with universities and higher education funding and policy bodies across the world, most recently in Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Chile, Italy, Norway, Australia and Ireland.

Current Research

Current Research and Writing includes:

October 2022 - . KDP. Online book and resources associated with each chapter. Development of the latter continuing on the basis of user feedback.
Journal article (2022) , Higher Education Research and Development. 41, 5, 1743-1756.
Book for Oxford University Press, 2020. .

PhD Supervision Interests

I supervise a large number of doctoral researchers from the Department's several PhD programmes. For this reason I can only consider supervising non-programmatic PhDs in my specialist area. This is summed up in my recent (2020) book Accomplishing Change in Teaching and Learning Regimes: Higher Education and the practice sensibility. Oxford University Press. Any research proposal must be directly linked to the issues and suggestions in that book. Please do not contact me directly about PhD supervision applications. For equity reasons all applications must be made through the normal application procedure: /educational-research/study/phd/traditional-route-phd/#d.en.410253

01/11/2013 → 30/06/2014
Research
06/05/2013 → 28/02/2014
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06/05/2013 → 01/11/2013
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01/01/2013 → 01/01/2015
Research
01/02/2011 → 31/08/2011
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01/03/2010 → 02/08/2010
Research
01/01/2010 → 08/01/2013
Consultancy
01/09/2006 → 31/08/2007
Other

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Membership of committee

Invited talk