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Coping with Paradoxical Demands: The Dual Position of Deans in French Business Schools
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Olivier Guyottot; Anne-Sophie Thelisson – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Recent studies have highlighted the major challenges faced by managers in the higher education sector and shown the contradictory demands which foster paradoxical tensions. Previous works have also underlined some specific tensions and rigidities that business school deans regularly face in their role. Yet, few studies have empirically explored…
Descriptors: Deans, Administrator Role, Business Schools, Foreign Countries
Two Hearts Beating in a Research Centers' Chest: How Scholars in Interdisciplinary Research Settings Cope with Monodisciplinary Deep Structures
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Woiwode, Hendrik; Froese, Anna – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Interdisciplinary research is a popular mode of knowledge production that becomes intensively promoted by research centers all across the globe. Despite the facilitation of interdisciplinary research, however, scholars working in these centers are 'disciplined.' Career promotions, funding decisions and scientific publishing are based on…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Research, Researchers, Research and Development Centers
Barriers to Accessing Support for Mental Health Issues at University
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Cage, Eilidh; Stock, Melissa; Sharpington, Alex; Pitman, Emma; Batchelor, Rachel – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Student mental health is an issue of great concern for universities, with rising numbers of mental health problems being reported and students reporting issues with accessing support. The current study, using a participatory research framework, investigated the possible barriers preventing students from accessing support, in terms of help-seeking…
Descriptors: Barriers, Mental Health, College Students, Student Personnel Services
COVID-19 in Dutch Higher Education
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de Boer, Harry – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In this contribution to the Special Issue of Studies in Higher Education, I describe developments during the COVID-19 pandemic in Dutch higher education along three lines. First, the context is outlined in chronological order. It concerns the evolution of the pandemic in the Netherlands, complemented by the general situation at my own university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education
Deconstructing Coping Using Cognitive Influences on Ability Groups
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Kurian, Joe; Mekoth, Nandakumar – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The influence of emotionality and conscientiousness, the personality traits, on academic performance were examined on students of higher education using the perspectives of conservation of resources theory and social cognitive theory. Skinner's coping model was utilized to understand coping mechanisms in the context of engineering education.…
Descriptors: Coping, Academic Achievement, Engineering Education, Academic Ability
'Studying in This England Is Wahala (Trouble)': Analysing the Experiences of West African Students in a UK Higher Education Institution
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Owusu-Kwarteng, Louise – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
'Studying in this England is Wahala' critically analyses social/academic experiences of 12 West African overseas undergraduate/postgraduate students in a London University. It discusses structural and individual factors impacting on decisions to study here, including perceptions of differences between quality of university education in the UK and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Student Attitudes