New Higher Education Series: University Reimagined

New Higher Education Series: University Reimagined

Posted by bayleycornfield - Wednesday, 29 Jan 2025

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Manchester University Press is delighted to announce the launch of University Reimagined – a new Higher Education book series. Find out more about the series, upcoming projects, and how to submit a proposal, below.


About the Series

Universities worldwide stand at a crossroads, no longer assured of financial – or even rhetorical – backing from their host societies, and increasingly subject to political interference and media attacks. The underlying public value and purpose of higher education is easily lost amid the metrics and games of artificially imposed markets.

The University Reimagined series offers a home for fresh ideas about higher education and innovative solutions to the challenges it faces, both within the UK and internationally. How can universities be cherished and trusted by citizens while retaining their institutional autonomies and academic freedoms? How can sectors adapt to a challenging socio-political context with integrity and collegiality? How can students and staff recover a sense of themselves as communities of scholars in pursuit of shared intellectual goals? The scope of the series is broad, but uniting its books is a commitment to reclaim and repurpose universities for the common good.

Hope and positivity are crucial: University Reimagined moves beyond documenting problems to developing potential answers based on new conceptualisations of higher education, new engagement platforms, and new modes of working. Seeking to rebuild confidence in the university, reassert the value of academic expertise, and open doors to inclusive change, the books in this series will culminate in a useable blueprint for the future of the sector.

Visit the series page.

Upcoming Projects

Projects currently in development include: an exciting handbook on developing your own critical pedagogy; a critical look at the overwhelming demand for metrics in the sector, from the REF to the TEF and beyond; and a history of the ‘Platform University’, charting a fundamental shift over recent years as institutions respond to global pandemics and generative AI.

Submit a Proposal

Proposals for the series are now open! To submit a proposal, please contact one of the series editors in the first instance, with a brief overview of who you are and what your book would be about.

Read the full call for proposals.

Series Editors:
Professor Steven Jones, The University of Manchester
Dr Sadia Habib, The University of Manchester

Commissioning Editor:
Laura Swift

Advisory Board:
Dr Fadia Dakka, Birmingham City University
Dr Kirsty Finn, University of Manchester
Dr Jairo I. Funez-Flores, Texas Tech University
Prof Yasmin Gunaratnam, Kings College London
Prof Richard Hall, De Monford University
Dr Zhuomin Huang, University of Manchester
Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury, University of Manchester
Dr Sylvie Lomer, University of Manchester
Dr Kylie Message-Jones, Australian National University
Prof Marie-Pierre Moreau, University of East London
Dr Liz Morrish, Independent scholar
Dr Leila Mouhib, Free University of Brussels
Prof Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University
Dr Rille Raaper, Durham University
Prof Richard Watermeyer, University of Bristol
Prof Sean Wilson, Macquarie University


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