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{"title":"Loneliness among Chinese international and local students in Germany: the role of student status, gender, and emotional support","authors":"Başak Bilecen, Isabell Diekmann, Thomas Faist","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2215992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2215992","url":null,"abstract":"For students, studying abroad has its advantages but might also have unwanted adverse effects, such as social isolation and loneliness. We comparatively analyse the role of emotional support in understanding loneliness among Chinese international students and local students in Germany from a gender perspective. Based on a unique sample, our findings suggest that Chinese international students experience higher levels of loneliness than local students. Female Chinese international students are less lonely compared to male ones, whereas the opposite is true for local students. Surprisingly, having a higher number of emotionally supportive ties is associated with higher levels of loneliness for all students. Our subgroup analysis further revealed that the relationship between emotional support and loneliness varies by gender and student status. Female local students benefit from having more emotionally supportive ties, while the opposite is true for female Chinese international students. We recommend conducting a longitudinal study for examining the causality of the relationship between networks and loneliness in the future. Our findings have implications for universities and higher education research in addressing loneliness among students.","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135478959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Establishing reward systems for excellence in teaching – the experience of academics pioneering a reward system","authors":"O. Førland, T. Roxå","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2214713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2214713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89142192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19-induced academic stress and its impact on life satisfaction and optimism. A panel study of Swedish university students between 2020 and 2022","authors":"Andrea Bohman, Maureen A. Eger, M. Hjerm, Jeffrey Mitchell","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2209707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2209707","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we analyse the level of and development in students' academic stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We devote particular attention to students that first entered university in 2020, ‘the COVID cohort', who had fewer opportunities to integrate in ways that theoretically should mitigate the impact of pandemic-induced disruption to their studies. Using four waves of data, collected 2020–2022, we find evidence of both pandemic and cohort effects among Swedish university students (N = 3138). During the pandemic's first year academic stress due to COVID-19 increased regardless of pre-pandemic university experience. The stress, in turn, negatively impacted students' life satisfaction, a factor theoretically linked to key student outcomes like persistence and academic performance but had limited effect on students' long-term optimism. The COVID cohort expressed higher levels of academic stress and experienced a greater drop in life satisfaction compared to the most senior students (3 years or more), but largely overlapped with students with some university experience (1–2 years). These group differences persisted in spring 2022. Finally, we found that the higher levels of pandemic-induced academic stress in the COVID cohort were mitigated by experiences that foster academic and social integration, specifically by teacher support and social cohesion. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75736719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of extracurricular activities on university students’ academic success and employability","authors":"Norberto Ribeiro, Carla Malafaia, Tiago Neves, I. Menezes","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2202874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2202874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84461916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘You have to be really fired up about it’ – formal and informal factors that influence aspirational cooling out among PhD graduates","authors":"Heinke Röbken, Jasmin Overberg, Valerie Hug","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2204241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2204241","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85044382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Career authenticity in academia: examining the role of antecedents across gender and academic rank","authors":"D. L. Van Helden, L. den Dulk, B. Steijn, J. Boonstra, M. Vernooij","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2201683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2201683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77031463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Internationalisation in challenging times: practices and rationales of internal and external stakeholders","authors":"Sirke Mäkinen","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2196434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2196434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is the introduction to a Special Issue which addresses the rationales for and practices of the internationalisation of higher education and research in Europe and Eurasia. The contributors look at a variety of activities within internationalisation, such as collaborative degree/joint programmes, student and staff mobility, and research collaborations. In particular, the articles examine how and why rationales, or motivations and goals for internationalisation, vary or coincide at different levels, for example at the supranational (e.g. regional), national, institutional, programme and individual level. This Special Issue pays a special attention to the political environment in which the internationalisation takes place, and how the given environment – e.g. formal political institutions, or policies – encourages, enables or prevents the internationalisation of higher education and research. The contributors focus on internal university stakeholders relevant to the internationalisation, relations between different internal stakeholders and/or their interplay with key external stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"126 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85543622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Publishing review reports to reveal and preserve the quality and fairness of the peer review process","authors":"M. Seeber, M. Klemenčič, M. Meoli, Cristina Sin","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2192549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2192549","url":null,"abstract":"Peer review has several known limitations, but it is still an important and central institution in modern science (Seeber 2022): findings that have not faced the test of peer review are seen as unreliable, while works that have passed the scrutiny of peer review assume a sort ‘truth’ status (Baldwin 2018). Peer review is therefore adopted by academic outlets as the legitimate way to select scientific contributions (Lamont 2009), and to guarantee the quality of the research published and the credibility of scientific claims (Warren 2003; Bornmann 2008; Kalleberg 2012). It is commonly assumed that the establishment of peer review occurred with the first example of peer review, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1665 (National Academy of Science 1995). However, despite a common belief that peer review has always been a central, immutable institution of modern science, the institutionalization of peer review is a much more recent phenomenon (Fyfe et al. 2020). Only in the second half of the twentieth century, did editors begin to rely systematically on external referees to cope with the increasing size and specialization of scientific production (Burnham 1990; Baldwin 2018). Over time, peer review adopted different forms to respond to priorities and necessities of the scientific community. For instance, peer review was initially single blind, meaning that the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers, while reviewers know the identity of the authors. In the 70s, sociology journals started to adopt a double-blind peer review, whereby authors and reviewers do not know each other’s identity. This choice was driven by the universalism norm of Science (Merton 1973), which prescribes that scientific claims should be subjected to the same ‘pre-established impersonal criteria’, regardless of their source and not affected by the reputation and prestige of its authors or their institutions of affiliation. In computer science, the prime channel of communication is conferences, rather than journals, and reviewers are not selected by an editor: instead, conference chair members act as reviewers and choose which paper they wish to review (Seeber and Bacchelli 2017).","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"35 1","pages":"121 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89938202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflection: an assessment and critique of a pervasive trend in higher education","authors":"Malcolm Tight","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2193345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2193345","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"216 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89116393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting the ‘U-curve’ hypothesis: international students’ academic, sociocultural, and psychological adjustment trajectories at a British university","authors":"Xuan Zhao, A. Schartner","doi":"10.1080/21568235.2023.2193702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2023.2193702","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37345,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Higher Education","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72847941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}