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Analysing policy positions of stakeholder organizations in higher education: what, how and why? -- Understanding disability frameworks in higher education research -- Diffracting the curriculum: putting "new" material feminism to work to reconfigure knowledge-making practices in undergraduate higher education research -- The looseness of loose coupling: the use and misuse of "loose coupling" in higher education research -- Toward a critical whiteness methodology: challenging whiteness through qualitative research -- Mixed methods for research into higher education: solving the problem of institutionalized introsprection? -- Addressing self-selection and endogeneity in higher education research -- An exploration of rhythms in the contemporary academy: time, space and affect -- Pluralism as a vehicle for theory-building in educational technology research -- Internet-mediated research: a methodological discussion based on a study with non-traditional adult students -- Ethnographies of higher education and modes of existence: using Latour's philosophical anthropology to construct faithful accounts of higher education practice.

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