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48
Citations
8148
World Ranking
3196
National Ranking
543

Overview

Malcolm Tight is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has made significant contributions to the field of social sciences, with a primary focus on education. Their research spans various subfields, including education, political science and international relations, sociology and political science, media technology, and communication.

The research topics covered by Malcolm Tight include:

  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Higher Education Learning Practices
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Higher Education Practices and Engagement
  • Global Educational Policies and Reforms
  • Higher Education Research Studies

Malcolm Tight has a notable record of recent publications, which are as follows:

  • Internationalisation of higher education beyond the West: challenges and opportunities - the research evidence, 2022, Educational Research and Evaluation
  • Twenty-first century skills: meaning, usage and value, 2020, European Journal of Higher Education
  • Higher education: discipline or field of study?, 2020, Tertiary Education and Management
  • Saturation: An Overworked and Misunderstood Concept?, 2023, Qualitative Inquiry
  • Bullying in higher education: an endemic problem?, 2023, Tertiary Education and Management

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Malcolm Tight include Harald A. Mieg, Alasdair Blair, Darrell J. R. Evans, Christina Hughes, and Dominique M. Galli.

Malcolm Tight has published in a range of academic journals and venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • European Journal of Higher Education
  • Tertiary Education and Management
  • Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
  • Higher Education Quarterly
  • Educational Research and Evaluation

Their book publications cover titles issued by several publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, Emerald Publishing Limited, Lancaster University, and Edward Elgar Publishing. Notable books include:

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
  • Syntheses of Higher Education Research (Bloomsbury Academic eBooks, 2020)
  • International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022)
  • Syntheses of Higher Education Research: What we know (Lancaster University, 2020)
  • The student experience (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025)

Best Publications

  • How to Research

    Loraine Blaxter;Christina Hughes;Malcolm Tight

  • Researching Higher Education

    Malcolm Tight

  • Key concepts in adult education and training

    Malcolm Peter Tight

  • Research into higher education: an a‐theoretical community of practice?

    Malcolm Tight

  • Student retention and engagement in higher education

    Malcolm Peter Tight

  • Phenomenography:the development and application of an innovative research design in higher education research

    Malcolm Peter Tight

  • Higher Education Research as Tribe, Territory and/or Community: A Co-Citation Analysis.

    Malcolm Tight

  • Examining the research/teaching nexus

    Malcolm Tight

  • Internationalisation of higher education beyond the West: challenges and opportunities – the research evidence

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  • Are Academic Workloads Increasing? The Post-War Survey Evidence in the UK

    Malcolm Tight

  • Globalization and internationalization as frameworks for higher education research

    Malcolm Tight

  • The myth of the learning society

    Christina Hughes;Malcolm Tight

  • The curious case of case study: a viewpoint

    Malcolm Tight

  • The neoliberal turn in Higher Education

    Malcolm Tight

  • Bridging the Divide: a comparative analysis of articles in higher education journals published inside and outside North America.

    Malcolm Tight

  • Writing on academic careers

    Loraine Blaxter;Christina Hughes;Malcolm Tight

  • Higher education research 2000–2010: changing journal publication patterns

    Malcolm Tight

  • Documentary Research in the Social Sciences

    Malcolm Peter Tight

  • Discipline and methodology in higher education research

    Malcolm Tight

  • Collegiality and managerialism: a false dichotomy? Evidence from the higher education literature

    Malcolm Tight

  • Education, Education, Education! The vision of lifelong learning in the Kennedy, Dearing and Fryer reports

    Malcolm Tight

  • Understanding Case Study Research: Small-scale Research with Meaning

    Malcolm Tight

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education.

    Malcolm Tight;Ka Ho Mok;Jeroen Huisman;Christopher Morphew

  • International student security

    Malcolm Tight

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeroen Huisman
Jeroen Huisman Ghent University
Ka Ho Mok
Ka Ho Mok Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

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