Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream

This edited book provides international insights and recommendations around topics of gender and diversity in higher education linking to larger societal goals of improving equality. Within each of the four sections - Student recruitment and retention, Student experience, Faculty and staff experiences and culture, and Higher education cultures of teaching and research - topics unpack and speak to gender and diversity, equity, inclusion and access, social justice, and leadership and sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs). Incorporating innovative processes and methods, the researchers address how the experiences of groups who have been subordinated and marginalized can be heard, proposing a re-imagination of empowerment and leadership within higher education and best practices for the benefit of ongoing higher education development. This book is ideal reading for higher education leaders, students on higher education courses, leadership courses, gender in education, as well as researchers, practitioners, for topics of gender and diversity, equity, inclusion and access, social justice, leadership and sustainability in HEIs.

Anna CohenMiller is Associate Professor at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Tamsin Hinton-Smith is Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Sussex, UK. Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani is Lecturer in Education at the University of Sussex, UK. Nupur Samuel is Associate Professor at O. P. Jindal Global University, India.

Introduction Section 1: Student Recruitment and Retention 1 De/Centring Gender in Higher Education Access Policy - Lived Experiences of Admission Practices in Nigeria Jennifer Jomafuvwe Agbaire 2 Marginalized Masculinities in Australian Higher Education: Gendered Subjectivities, Discursive Spaces and First-in-Family Men Being and Becoming at University Garth Stahl and Sarah McDonald 3 Gendered Precarity, Intersectionality and Barriers to Higher Education for Women Seeking Asylum in Australia Lisa Hartley, Rebecca Field, Babar, Fatema, Atefeh, Rachel Burke, and Sally Baker In-Dialogue Editorial: Student Recruitment and Retention - Problematising Student Access and Participation in International Contexts:Intersectional Identities, Capitals, Prejudice and Risks Tamsin Hinton-Smith Section 2: Student Experience 4 Responding to the Needs of Women Students with Caring Responsibilities in Nigeria Charlotte Morris, Rachel Masika, Chinyere Nwajiuba , Chinwe Victoria Ogunji, and Zibah Nwako 5 Resources and Support Services for Students with Albinism in Tanzanian Higher Education Rose Rutagemwa Kiishweko 6 Gender and Higher Education in Nursing: Experiences of Male Nursing Trainees in Ghana Isaac Mensah Boafo and Sylvia Esther Gyan In-Dialogue Editorial: Student Experience in Higher Education Fawzia Mazanderani Section 3: Faculty/Staff Experience 7 Outsiders Reflecting on Invisible Institutional Gender Norms Nettie Boivin, Judit Háhn, and Shomaila Sadaf 8 Gender, Precarity and Marginality in Higher Education Spaces in India Nupur Samuel and Umasankar Patra 9 Centering Voices of Motherscholars during the COVID-19 Pandemic shows Overwhelming Responsibilities, Ingrained Gender Roles, and Blurred Boundaries Anna CohenMiller and Jessica Leveto 10 Decolonising "Those Who Are Not" in Polish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) Maria Cywinska, Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, and Urszula Markowska-Manista In-Dialogue Editorial: Responding to Invisibility in Higher Education Institutions with Purposeful Collaboration, Cooperation, and Collegiality to Improve Equity, Inclusion, and Access Anna CohenMiller Section 4: Higher Education Cultures of Teaching and Research 11 Making Higher Education Institutions Gender-Sensitive: Visions and Voices from the Indian Education System Debdatta Chowdhury 12 Co-Creating Cross-Cultural Approaches to Gender Mainstreaming in Higher Education: Experiences and Challenges in Developing an Interdisciplinary, International Feminist Knowledge-Exchange Research Approach Tamsin Hinton Smith, Fawzia Mazanderani, Nupur Samuel, and Anna CohenMiller 13 Improving Gender Diversity in STEM through an Inclusive Professional Framework Stephanie Knezz, Donald L. Gillian-Daniel, Claudia Irene Calderón, April Dukes, Robin Greenler, and Louis Macias 14 Feminist Perspectives for the Co-Decolonization of Gender Equality in Cambodian Higher Education Rothsophal Nguon, Samphors Mech, Kimkanika Ung, Kelly Grace and Whitney Szmodis In-Dialogue Editorial: Higher Education Cultures of Teaching and Research Nupur Samuel