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Historical methods applied to higher education policies and practices.
Methodological dilemmas: worked examples
On the general methodological issues see:
- The necessity of the historical imagination. Millennium lecture delivered at the University of Brighton , 18 March 1999; and
- "No history without historiography." Review article in Literature and History 16:2 (Autumn 2007), 57-62
On incomplete data, see (2005) “What I think I know and don't know about widening participation in HE, “ in Duke, C and Layer, G, Widening Participation: which way forward for English higher education? (NIACE: Leicester), 133-45.
On qualitative and quantitative data combined, see (2007) Whatever happened to the Dearing Report? UK HE 1997-2007. Institute of Education Professorial Inaugural Lecture (London, Institute of Education).
On multiple narratives, see (2007) “Academic identities and the story of institutions” in Barnett, R and Di Napoli, R (eds.), Changing Identities in Higher Education London : Routledge, 175-81.
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