This call for papers invites scholars and practitioners to address the re-imagining of higher education and consider it through one of the following themes:
- Explore the impact of different cultural contexts that shape higher education transformation today, and the creation of strategies, policies and plans for a equitable, inclusive and sustainable model of higher education
- Discuss the form inclusive leadership takes in the modern higher education landscape
- Address issues of justice, and their intersectionality with historic legacies of injustice, and institutional responses to them in higher education
- Consider the intersection of inclusion and the green/climate agenda, and how they can reinforce one another in the higher education context
- Assess the utility of EU diversity charters, and other European initiatives to foster inclusive societies
- Share innovative and inclusive teaching approaches and pedagogies
- Re-imagine higher education through ‘whole of education’ and ‘whole of society’ perspectives
- Evaluate the commitment in higher education to the 2030 Sustainable Goals agenda, with reference to (among others)
- Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
- Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
- Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Goal 13. Climate action
- Goal 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions