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Professor Paul Trowler

Professor in Higher Education

Degree: BA (Hons), MA, PGCE (distinction), PhD

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation, Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education, Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning

Personal website

Current Teaching

Research Director for the Department

Research Director of here@lancaster - the Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation

Postgraduate Research Tutor for the DepartmentMA Educational Research (Programme Director)

Policy, Change and Organisational Development module, Doctoral Programme, Educational Research (Module Convenor)

Technology Enhanced Learning Doctoral Programme methodology module

Supervisor to numerous PhD students

Website for research students

Research Interests

Change and the implementation of higher education policy particularly at institutional and departmental level. My research and evaluation work focuses especially on the significance of disciplinary and contextually-specific locations for leadership and change management. I have a particular interest in academic staff and organizational learning as they relate to the enhancement of teaching and learning in higher education.

Paul is an elected Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education. He is a member of the Higher Education Academy and an active member of international organizations involved in higher education research and evaluation.

Paul was the main organizer for the first three Higher Education Close Up conferences. These are devoted to fine-grained research into higher education. Higher Education Close Up 4 was held in Cape Town in 2008 and Close Up 5 was held at Lancaster University in July 2010.http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/events/hecu5/index.htm. The next Close Up conference will be in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 2012.

Current Research and Writing includes:

• Just completed a resource on researching your own university: http://www.bera.ac.uk/files/2011/06/researching_your_own_institution_higher_education.pdf
• Just completed an e-book:Doing Insider Research in Universities.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doing-Insider-Research-Universities-ebook/dp/B006JI3SGK
• Just completed a new edited book on 'Academic Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century' -http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tribes-Territories-21st-Century-Significance-International/dp/0415880629/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324400585&sr=1-3
• Writing a paper on the application of social practice theory to issues of organizational change in higher education
• Evaluating a strategic development project in an English university
• Working on funded research on student engagement (Leadership Foundation for Higher Education). Student engagement deliverables are here: www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/trowler/studentengagementdeliverables.htm

Paul and a colleague have recently completed the reports for the Higher Education Academy's student engagement project. These include a literature review, a summary of the evidential base, case studies, briefings for managers and policy makers and an interactive website on student engagement.

The latter can be found here:

https://sakai.lancs.ac.uk

Username: sakai.guest@gmail.com; password: welcome

Paul's Diary

Paul will be helping to launch here@lancaster (the Department's Higher Education Research and Evaluation centre), of which he is Director of Research, through a series of national and international keynotes and masterclasses over the summer. These are:

• MasterClasses to the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. July 1, 2011. (Practitioner research)
• Keynote speech to Higher Education Research and Development Association Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 4-7 July 2011. (Academic cultures). Video here:http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2011/index.html
• Keynote speech to educational development colloquium, Gold Coast, Australia, 7-8 July. (Educational development in the UK).
• MasterClass to Griffith University, Australia. July 11, 2011.
• MasterClass to the University of Queensland, Australia. July 12, 2011.
• Keynote speech to educational development colloquium, Gothenburg. September 20-21, 2011. (Teaching and learning regimes)
• Keynote speech to the EFMD annual conference, Budapest, Hungary, October 5-7, 2011. (Student engagement).
• Public seminar to Oxford University's Learning Institute, October 20, 2011. (Academic cultures)

A full list of Paul's 19 books, 21 articles, 20 chapters, research reports and recent and forthcoming invited lectures plus a full CVfor downloadavailable here:http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/trowler/cv.htm

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Some publications representing my interests include the following (many draft versions are available as Lancaster eprints: see below)

BERA Research Resource: Researching Your Own Institution (Higher Education):http://www.bera.ac.uk/files/2011/06/researching_your_own_institution_higher_education.pdf

Trowler, P. (2008) Cultures and Change in Higher Education. London: PalgraveMacmillan.

Bamber, V., Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (2009)Enhancing Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Curriculum in Higher Education. London: Open University Press.

Final report to the Higher Education Academy on my 'Teaching-Research Nexus' project. At:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/Trowler_Final_Report.pdf

Becher, T. and Trowler, P. (2001) Academic Tribes and Territories: intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines (2nd edition). Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.

Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2001) Departmental Leadership in Higher Education: new directions for communities of practice. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.

Trowler, P. (ed) (2001) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change: intentions and outcomes in turbulent environments. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.

Trowler, P. and Wareham, T. (2007) Reconceptualising 'the Teaching-Research Nexus'. In HERDSA Proceedings of the Annual HERDSA Conference 2007: Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship. 8-11 July 2007, Adelaide Australia.

Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2005) Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Education: joined-up policies; institutional architectures; enhancement cultures. International Journal for Academic Development, 10, 2, 79-93.

Trowler, P., Fanghanel, J. and Wareham, T. (2005) Freeing the Chi of Change: The Higher Education Academy and Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education, 30, 5. 427-444

Trowler, P. (2003) Il Regno Unito e lo 'Spazio Europeo dell'istruzione' (The UK and the European Higher Education Space). La Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. (The Italian Journal of Sociology), 3, 357-370.

Trowler, P. and Cooper, A. (2002) Teaching and Learning Regimes: implicit theories and recurrent practices in the enhancement of teaching and learning through educational development programmes. Higher Education Research and Development, 21, 3, 221-240.

Trowler, P. and Turner, G. (2002) Exploring the Hermeneutic Foundations of University Life: Deaf academics in a hybrid community of practice. Higher Education, 43, 227-256.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

• Higher education policy-making and policy implementation;
• The analysis of organisational and professional cultures in universitities, particularly as they relate to change-management processes;
• The reception and impact in differing social contexts of learning, teaching and assessment policies and practices;
• Discourse and identities in higher education; ethnographic research methodologies.

Additional Information

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

I have Management Team responsibility for research across the Department of Educational Research and chair the Department's Research Committee.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Paul Trowler has 41 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Associated Keywords: Academic cultures, Higher education HE, Higher education policy, Learning, Policy, Qualitative research methods, Social contexts of learning, Teaching and assessment

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