
Coordinators



Mission Statement
SIG 4 Higher Education is a collegial community of researchers from diverse fields who have a shared interest in harvesting the SIG’s broad research focus and who are committed to excellent research on learning and instruction in higher education. Our core aims are:
a) to establish an arena for the development and dissemination of high quality empirical and theory-based research,
b) to facilitate contact and collaborations among our members (both advanced and early career researchers; and irrespective of regions), and
c) to organize relevant activities (e.g. conferences, thematic symposia, workshops) that support excellence in research on higher education in the community and beyond.
We encourage our members to advance higher education research by striving to meet the highest research standards in terms of originality, theoretical foundation and methodological rigor. Closely connected to these aims, as a community of scholars, we should strive to advance research-informed teaching and learning practices in higher education.
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Newsletters and Business Meeting Minutes
Newsletters:
- Newsletter March 2016
- Newsletter June 2016
- Newsletter September 2016
- Newsletter December 2016
- Newsletter November 2017
- Newsletter February 2018
- Newsletter May 2018
- Newsletter September 2018
- Newsletter December 2018
- Newsletter October 2020
- Newsletter December 2020
- Newsletter June 2021
- Newsletter August 2021
- Newsletter October 2021
- Newsletter December 2021
Business meeting minutes:
Past conferences
SIG 4 & 17 Joint Conference 2024
- Theme:
Navigating the Changing Landscape: Embracing Innovation and Evidence in Higher Education
- Date: 25th-27th September 2024
- Place: University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
SIG 1 & 4 Joint Conference 2022
- Theme: Exploring research synergies to learn from each other
- Date: 27th - 30th of June, 2022
- Place: Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
- Conference website
- Book of abstracts
SIG 4 Biennial Conference 2018
- Theme: Topography of research on higher education: Promoting deep conversations
- Date: 29th - 31st of August, 2018
- Place: Giessen, Germany
- Conference website
- Book of abstracts