Paul Trowler

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Paul Trowler is a scholar working on Education, Political Science and International Relations and Human Factors and Ergonomics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Trowler has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Education, 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Human Factors and Ergonomics. Recurrent topics in Paul Trowler's work include Higher Education Learning Practices (14 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (14 papers) and Evaluation of Teaching Practices (12 papers). Paul Trowler is often cited by papers focused on Higher Education Learning Practices (14 papers), Higher Education Governance and Development (14 papers) and Evaluation of Teaching Practices (12 papers). Paul Trowler collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Paul Trowler's co-authors include Tony Becher, Peter T. Knight, Vicki Trowler, Joëlle Fanghanel, Murray Saunders, Peter Knight, Alison Shreeve, Rosalind Pritchard, Alison Fuller and Graham Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education.

In The Last Decade

Paul Trowler

77 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Academic tribes and territories 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 400 800 1.2k

Peers

Paul Trowler
Ronald Barnett United Kingdom
Mantz Yorke United Kingdom
Tony Becher United Kingdom
Angela Brew Australia
Hugh Lauder United Kingdom
Phil Hodkinson United Kingdom
Alan E. Bayer United States
Bruce Macfarlane United Kingdom
Ivor Goodson United Kingdom
Ronald Barnett United Kingdom
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All Works

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Trowler, Paul. (2021). Doctoral supervision: sharpening the focus of the practice lens. Higher Education Research & Development. 41(5). 1743–1756. 6 indexed citations
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Trowler, Vicki, Paul Trowler, & Murray Saunders. (2018). Responding to Student Voice : Insights into international practice. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 3 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2016). Doing doctoral research into higher education......and getting it right. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2014). Frequently asked questions about doctoral research into higher education. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2013). Can approaches to research in Art and Design be beneficially adapted for research into higher education?. Higher Education Research & Development. 32(1). 56–69. 11 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2012). Wicked issues in situating theory in close-up research. Higher Education Research & Development. 31(3). 273–284. 38 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul, et al.. (2012). Tribes and Territories in the 21st Century: Rethinking the Significance of Disciplines in Higher Education. International Studies in Higher Education.. 2 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2012). Disciplines and Research:key themes. 57(5). 473–86. 1 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2012). Disciplines and Academic Practices. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 4 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2012). Theorising Disciplines and Research Practices : conceptual groundwork. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2011). National systemic evaluative practice : power and regulation. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul & Vicki Trowler. (2010). Frameworks for action: enhancing student engagement at the institutional level. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 4 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2008). Beyond epistemological essentialism : Academic tribes in the twenty-first century. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 15 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul, Murray Saunders, & Peter T. Knight. (2002). Change thinking, change practices : a guide to change for heads of department, subject centres and others who work "middle-out".. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 11 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (2002). Introduction : higher educational policy, institutional change.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 8 indexed citations
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Knight, Peter T. & Paul Trowler. (1999). It Takes a Village to Raise a Child: mentoring and the socialisation of new entrants to the academic professions. Mentoring & Tutoring Partnership in Learning. 7(1). 23–34. 30 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (1998). What managerialists Forget: Higher education credit frameworks and managerialist ideology. International Studies in Sociology of Education. 8(1). 91–110. 23 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (1998). Education policy : a policy sociology approach.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 29 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul. (1996). Academics’ Responses to Credit-Based Modularity in an Expanding HE System. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2 indexed citations
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Trowler, Paul, et al.. (1984). Topics in Sociology. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 1 indexed citations

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