Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education

Tom Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth (UK) and the Chair of Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE).

1. Advancing student engagement in higher education: the need for reflection, critique and challenge 2. Researching and evaluating student engagement: A methodological critique of data gathering approaches 3. Challenges and tensions for Student Academic Engagement practices in contemporary UK Higher Education 4. There is not one student experience: Our learner journeys as individuals 5. Equality and diversity in our student engagement practice – Radical possibilities to reaching racial and religious equity in Higher Education 6. Authentic leadership for student engagement. 7. Students as consumers: A barrier for student engagement? 8. Accessibility to Student Engagement Opportunities: A Focus on ‘Hard to Reach’ Universities 9. How to engage students in your educational developments – a student leader’s view 10. Student evaluation of courses – cocreation of meaning through conversations: Insights from the student perspective 11. The problem with student engagement during Covid-19 12. Control, freedom and structure in student-staff partnerships 13. To what extent can we really make students partners in neoliberal universities? 14. Critical Challenges to Support Generation Z Learners 15. Student-Instructor Partnerships for Curricular Justice 16. Embracing student agentic engagement and enacting equity in higher education through co-creating learning and teaching 17. Defining, Delivering and Evaluating Student Engagement in a Professional Service in Higher Education: A Case Study of a Student Engagement Team in an Academic Library 18. University Estates: From Spaces to Places of Student Engagement 19. Learning Analytics in Higher Education: The ethics, the future, the students 20. Placing sport at the heart of the university community: a critical reflection on sports club membership and what it means for student engagement from a Bourdieusian perspective 21. Towards inclusive student partnership: challenges and opportunities for student engagement in the Australian context 22. Recognising the hidden impact of extra-curricular activity on student engagement and success 23. Widening the Aperture on College Students’ Sense of Belonging: A Critical Ecological Perspective 24: Valhalla and Nirvana: views of Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation in further and higher education 25. So what and what next? Concluding thoughts on advancing student engagement