What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Law
- Social science
- Higher education
Her primary scientific interests are in Higher education, Capability approach, Pedagogy, Framing and Public relations.
She mostly deals with Academic freedom in her studies of Higher education.
Her Capability approach research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Economic Justice, Positive economics, Agency and Education policy.
Her Pedagogy study combines topics in areas such as Engineering ethics and Well-being.
Her work deals with themes such as Research design, Poverty reduction, Professional development and Dialogic, which intersect with Framing.
Her study in the field of Social responsibility also crosses realms of Context.
Her most cited work include:
- Towards a capability‐based theory of social justice for education policy‐making (188 citations)
- Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and Social Justice in Education (182 citations)
- Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope (122 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
Higher education, Pedagogy, Capability approach, Public relations and Human development are her primary areas of study.
Her Higher education research focuses on Social science and how it connects with Politics.
Within one scientific family, Melanie Walker focuses on topics pertaining to Engineering ethics under Pedagogy, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Well-being.
She combines subjects such as Economic Justice, Flourishing, Agency and Education policy with her study of Capability approach.
Her Public relations research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Social capital, Professional development and Value.
Her studies examine the connections between Human development and genetics, as well as such issues in Human capital, with regards to Normative.
She most often published in these fields:
- Higher education (54.26%)
- Pedagogy (31.78%)
- Capability approach (27.13%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2020)?
- Higher education (54.26%)
- Public relations (27.13%)
- Human development (20.93%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Her main research concerns Higher education, Public relations, Human development, Employability and Capability approach.
Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Economic Justice and Transformative learning.
The various areas that she examines in her Public relations study include Social capital, Agency and Human capital.
Her study looks at the relationship between Human development and fields such as Pedagogy, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems.
Her research investigates the connection with Capability approach and areas like Flourishing which intersect with concerns in Interpersonal communication and Cultural capital.
In her research on the topic of Economic growth, Gender equality is strongly related with Positive economics.
Between 2016 and 2020, her most popular works were:
- The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion: Getting to Grips With Research in Education and the Social Sciences (38 citations)
- The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences (30 citations)
- Aspirations and equality in higher education: gender in a South African university (17 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Law
- Social science
- Higher education
Melanie Walker spends much of her time researching Higher education, Social science, Public relations, Agency and Human development.
Her Higher education study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Economic Justice, Social influence, Framing and Human capital.
Her Social science research incorporates themes from Gender equality, Function, Educational attainment and Media studies.
Her Public relations study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Dialogic pedagogy, Individualism and Politics.
The Agency study combines topics in areas such as Research ethics, Internationalization of Higher Education, Supervisor, Negotiation and Life course approach.
Melanie Walker focuses mostly in the field of Human development, narrowing it down to matters related to Engineering ethics and, in some cases, Participatory action research.
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