My new book Accomplishing Change in Teaching and Learning Regimes: Higher Education and the Practice Sensibility, Oxford University Press, brings together much of the academic work in my career. (Use code ASFLYQ6 for a 30% discount from OUP website if you want to buy it).
Below are listed many of the intellectual threads that make up the cloth of that book. Downloadable versions of many of them are also available at my academia.edu site.
Books
Pritchard, C. and Trowler, P. (Eds.) (2018) Realizing Qualitative Research into Higher Education. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge Library Editions.
Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (2012) Tribes and Territories in Higher Education: Practices in the 21st Century. London: Routledge.
Saunders, M., Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2011) Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education. Open University Press/SRHE.
Bamber, V., Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (eds) (2009) Enhancing Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Curriculum in Higher Education: theories within practices. Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (2008) Cultures and Change in Higher Education: Theories and Practices. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Prichard, C. and Trowler, P. (eds) (July 2003) Realising Qualitative Research in Higher Education. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Trowler. P. (2003) Education Policy: A policy sociology approach (second edition). London: Routledge.
Trowler, P. (ed) (2002) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Becher, T. and Trowler, P. (2001) Academic Tribes and Territories: intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines (2nd edition). Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2001) Departmental Leadership in Higher Education: new directions for communities of practice. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (1998) Academics Responding to Change: new higher education frameworks and academic cultures. Buckingham. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler. P. (1998) Education Policy: A policy sociology approach. London: Routledge.
Book chapters
Trowler, P. (2015) Changing the shape and outcomes of student engagement. In M. Klemencic, S. Bergan and R. Primozic, (eds) Student engagement in Europe: Society, higher education and student governance, pp. 163-173. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe Higher Education series no. 20.
Trowler, P. (2012) Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity: Conceptual groundwork. In Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (Jan 2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge. pp 5-29
Trowler, P. (2012) Disciplines and Academic Practices. In Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge. pp 30-38
Trowler, P. (2012) Doing Research: The case of Art and Design. In Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (Jan 2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge.
Trowler, P. (2011) Chapter 2: The Higher Education Policy Context of Evaluative Practices. In Saunders, M., Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2011) Reconceptualising Evaluative Practices in Higher Education. Open University Press.
Trowler, P. (2011) Chapter 3: National systemic evaluative practice: Power and regulation. In M. Saunders, P. Trowler and V. Bamber Reconceptualising evaluative practices in higher education, pp. 35-39. Open University Press.
Verity, M. and Trowler, P. (2011) Looking Back and Looking Forward. In Hilsdon, J., Keenan, C., Neville, C., Sinfield, S. and Verity, M. (eds) Learning Development in Higher Education. London: Palgrave.
Trowler, P. (2010) UK Higher Education: Captured by new managerialist discourse? In Meek, V, L., Goedegebuure, L. and Santiago, R., and Carvalho, T. The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management. Dordrecht: Springer.
Trowler, P. (2010) Los Academicos en la mejora de la calidad de la docencia y del aprendizaje (Quality Enhancement in Universities). In Consejo de Educacion/Comision Nacional de Acreditation de Chile, Calidad de los Egresados Responsabilidad Institucional Ineludible. Santiago: CdE/CNdA de Chile (Chilean Ministry of Education and the National University Accreditation Commission). pp 49-62.
Main author or contributor to 7 chapters in Bamber, V., Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (eds) (2009) Enhancing Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Curriculum in Higher Education: theories within practices. Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (2009) Beyond Epistemological Essentialism: Academic Tribes in the 21st Century. In Kreber, C. (ed) Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. London: Routledge.
Trowler, P. (2006) Academic Tribes: their significance in enhancement processes. Proceedings of
Utvecklingskonferensen 2005 i Karlstad. Lund: University of Lund, pages 15-24.
Trowler, P. (2003) Veranderingen in Het Hoger Onderwijs in Theorie en Praktijk (Change in Higher Education in Theory and Practice). In Druine, N., Clement, M. and Waeytens, K. (eds) Dynamiek in Het Hoger Onderwijs (Higher Education Dynamics). Leuven: Leuven University Press. pp 15-30.
Trowler, P. (2002) Introduction: Higher Education Policy, Institutional Change. In P. Trowler (ed) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. and Knight, P. (2002) Exploring the implementation gap: theory and practices in change interventions. In P. Trowler (ed.) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (1996) Academics’ Responses to Credit-Based Modularity in an Expanding HE System, in N. Jackson (ed) Modular Higher Education in the UK in Focus. London, Higher Education Quality Council. 17-21.
Journal articles
Trowler, P. (2015) Higher Education Research: Making a Difference. Guest editor editorial to Special Number of Higher Education Quarterly. 69, 3, 219-220.
Trowler, P. (2015) Student Engagement, Ideological Contest and Elective Affinity: The Zepke thesis reviewed. Teaching in Higher Education. 20, 3, 328-339.
Trowler, P. (2014) Academic Tribes and Territories: the theoretical trajectory. Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften (Austrian Journal of Historical Studies). 25, 3, 17-26.
Trowler, P. (2013). Practice-focused ethnographies of Higher Education: Method/ological corollaries of a social practice perspective. European Journal of Higher Education. 4, 1, 18-29.
Trowler, P., Hopkinson, P and Comerford Boyes, L. (2013) Institutional Change Toward a Sustainability Agenda: How far can theory assist? Tertiary Education and Management, 19, 4. 267-279
Trowler, P. (2013) Depicting and Researching Disciplines: Strong and moderate essentialist approaches. Studies in Higher Education, 39, 10, 1720-1732.
Trowler, P. (2013) Can approaches to research in Art and Design be beneficially adapted for research into higher education? Higher Education Research and Development. 32, 1, 56-69.
Trowler, P. (2012) Wicked Issues in Situating Theory in Close Up Research. Higher Education Research and Development. 31, 3, 273-284.
Shreeve, A., Simms, E., and Trowler, P. (2010) A Kind of Exchange: Learning from Art and Design Teaching. Journal of Higher Education Research and Development. 29, 2, 125-138.
Editor of special number of the International Journal of Educational Research. (47, 3, 2008), including: Trowler, P. (2008) Introduction. International Journal of Educational Research. 47, 3, 149-150.
Fanghanel, J. and Trowler, P. (2008) Exploring Academic Identities and Practices in a Competitive Enhancement Context: a UK-based case study. European Journal of Education. 43, 3, 301-313
Trowler, P. and Wareham, T. (2007) 'Reconceptualising the Teaching-Research Nexus'. In HERDSA Proceedings of the Annual HERDSA Conference 2007: Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship. 8-11 July 2007, Adelaide Australia.
Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2005) Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Education: joined-up policies; institutional architectures; enhancement cultures. International Journal for Academic Development, 10, 2, 79-93.
Trowler, P. (2005) A Sociology of Teaching, Learning and Enhancement: improving practices in higher education. Revista de Sociologia, 76. 13-32.
Trowler, P. (2005) Policy and Change: Academic Development Units and the Bologna Declaration. International Journal for Academic Development, 9, 2. 193-198.
Trowler, P., Fanghanel, J. and Wareham, T. (2005) Freeing the Chi of Change: The Higher Education Academy and Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education, 30, 5. 427-444
Trowler, P. (2003) Il Regno Unito e lo 'Spazio Europeo dell'istruzione' (The UK and the European Higher Education Space). La Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. (The Italian Journal of Sociology), 3, 357-370.
Trowler, P. and Cooper, A. (2002) Teaching and Learning Regimes: implicit theories and recurrent practices in the enhancement of teaching and learning through educational development programmes. Higher Education Research and Development, 21, 3, 221-240.
Trowler, P. and Turner, G. (2002) Exploring the Hermeneutic Foundations of University Life: Deaf academics in a hybrid community of practice. Higher Education, 43, 227-256.
Trowler, P. (2001) Captured By the Discourse? The Socially Constitutive Power of New Higher Education Discourse in the UK. Organization, 8, 2, 183-201.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2000) Academic Work and Quality. Quality in Higher Education, 6, 2, 109-114.
Trowler, P. and Knight, P. (2000) 'Coming to Know' in Higher Education: theorising faculty entry to new work contexts. Higher Education Research and Development. 19, 1, 27-42.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2000) Department-level cultures and the improvement of learning and teaching. Studies in Higher Education. 25,1, 69-83.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (1999) It takes a village to raise a child: mentoring and the socialisation of new entrants to the academic professions. Journal of Mentoring and Tutoring, 7, 1, 23-34.
Trowler, P. and Knight, P. (1999) Organizational Socialization and Induction in Universities: Reconceptualizing Theory and Practice. Higher Education, 37, 177-195.
Trowler, P. (1998) What Managerialists Forget: higher education credit frameworks and managerialist ideology. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 8, 1, 91-109.
Trowler, P. (1997) Beyond the Robbins Trap: reconceptualising academic responses to change in higher education (or....Quiet Flows the Don?). Studies in Higher Education, 22, 3, 301-318.
Trowler, P. (1996) Angels in Marble?: accrediting prior experiential learning in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 21, 1, pp. 17-31.
Trowler, P and Hinett, K. (1994) Implementing the Recording of Achievement in Higher Education. Capability, 1, 1, pp. 53-61.
Reports
Trowler, V. with Trowler, P. and Saunders, M. (2018) Responding to Student Voice: Insights into international practice. Report to Quality Assurance Agency Scotland.
Trowler, P., Ashwin, P. And Saunders, M. (2014) The role of HEFCE in teaching and learning enhancement: a review of evaluative evidence. Report to the Higher Education Academy.
Trowler, V. and Trowler, P. (2011) Reports on Student Engagement to the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, 2011:
Conceptual overview
Synthesis of findings
Resource kit for leaders
Trowler, V. and Trowler, P. (2010) Reports on Student Engagement to the Higher Education Academy.
Evidence summary
International literature review (authored by Vicki Trowler)
Framework for action for institutional decision-makers
Framework for action for policymakers
Set of case studies
Executive summary
Trowler, P. and Wareham, T. (2007) Reports on the 'Teaching-Research Nexus' Project to the Higher Education Academy.
Literature review
Project findings
Trowler, P. (2011) Researching your own institution, British Educational Research Association on-line resource.
Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (2002) Change Thinking, Change Practices: A guide to change for heads of department, subject centres and others who work middle-out. York: Learning and Teaching Support Network.
Below are listed many of the intellectual threads that make up the cloth of that book. Downloadable versions of many of them are also available at my academia.edu site.
Books
Pritchard, C. and Trowler, P. (Eds.) (2018) Realizing Qualitative Research into Higher Education. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge Library Editions.
Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (2012) Tribes and Territories in Higher Education: Practices in the 21st Century. London: Routledge.
Saunders, M., Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2011) Reconceptualising Evaluation in Higher Education. Open University Press/SRHE.
Bamber, V., Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (eds) (2009) Enhancing Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Curriculum in Higher Education: theories within practices. Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (2008) Cultures and Change in Higher Education: Theories and Practices. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Prichard, C. and Trowler, P. (eds) (July 2003) Realising Qualitative Research in Higher Education. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Trowler. P. (2003) Education Policy: A policy sociology approach (second edition). London: Routledge.
Trowler, P. (ed) (2002) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Becher, T. and Trowler, P. (2001) Academic Tribes and Territories: intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines (2nd edition). Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2001) Departmental Leadership in Higher Education: new directions for communities of practice. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (1998) Academics Responding to Change: new higher education frameworks and academic cultures. Buckingham. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler. P. (1998) Education Policy: A policy sociology approach. London: Routledge.
Book chapters
Trowler, P. (2015) Changing the shape and outcomes of student engagement. In M. Klemencic, S. Bergan and R. Primozic, (eds) Student engagement in Europe: Society, higher education and student governance, pp. 163-173. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe Higher Education series no. 20.
Trowler, P. (2012) Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity: Conceptual groundwork. In Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (Jan 2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge. pp 5-29
Trowler, P. (2012) Disciplines and Academic Practices. In Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge. pp 30-38
Trowler, P. (2012) Doing Research: The case of Art and Design. In Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Bamber, V. (Eds) (Jan 2012).Tribes and territories in the 21st-century: Rethinking the significance of disciplines in higher education. London: Routledge.
Trowler, P. (2011) Chapter 2: The Higher Education Policy Context of Evaluative Practices. In Saunders, M., Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2011) Reconceptualising Evaluative Practices in Higher Education. Open University Press.
Trowler, P. (2011) Chapter 3: National systemic evaluative practice: Power and regulation. In M. Saunders, P. Trowler and V. Bamber Reconceptualising evaluative practices in higher education, pp. 35-39. Open University Press.
Verity, M. and Trowler, P. (2011) Looking Back and Looking Forward. In Hilsdon, J., Keenan, C., Neville, C., Sinfield, S. and Verity, M. (eds) Learning Development in Higher Education. London: Palgrave.
Trowler, P. (2010) UK Higher Education: Captured by new managerialist discourse? In Meek, V, L., Goedegebuure, L. and Santiago, R., and Carvalho, T. The Changing Dynamics of Higher Education Middle Management. Dordrecht: Springer.
Trowler, P. (2010) Los Academicos en la mejora de la calidad de la docencia y del aprendizaje (Quality Enhancement in Universities). In Consejo de Educacion/Comision Nacional de Acreditation de Chile, Calidad de los Egresados Responsabilidad Institucional Ineludible. Santiago: CdE/CNdA de Chile (Chilean Ministry of Education and the National University Accreditation Commission). pp 49-62.
Main author or contributor to 7 chapters in Bamber, V., Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (eds) (2009) Enhancing Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Curriculum in Higher Education: theories within practices. Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (2009) Beyond Epistemological Essentialism: Academic Tribes in the 21st Century. In Kreber, C. (ed) Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. London: Routledge.
Trowler, P. (2006) Academic Tribes: their significance in enhancement processes. Proceedings of
Utvecklingskonferensen 2005 i Karlstad. Lund: University of Lund, pages 15-24.
Trowler, P. (2003) Veranderingen in Het Hoger Onderwijs in Theorie en Praktijk (Change in Higher Education in Theory and Practice). In Druine, N., Clement, M. and Waeytens, K. (eds) Dynamiek in Het Hoger Onderwijs (Higher Education Dynamics). Leuven: Leuven University Press. pp 15-30.
Trowler, P. (2002) Introduction: Higher Education Policy, Institutional Change. In P. Trowler (ed) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. and Knight, P. (2002) Exploring the implementation gap: theory and practices in change interventions. In P. Trowler (ed.) Higher Education Policy and Institutional Change. Buckingham: Open University Press/SRHE.
Trowler, P. (1996) Academics’ Responses to Credit-Based Modularity in an Expanding HE System, in N. Jackson (ed) Modular Higher Education in the UK in Focus. London, Higher Education Quality Council. 17-21.
Journal articles
Trowler, P. (2015) Higher Education Research: Making a Difference. Guest editor editorial to Special Number of Higher Education Quarterly. 69, 3, 219-220.
Trowler, P. (2015) Student Engagement, Ideological Contest and Elective Affinity: The Zepke thesis reviewed. Teaching in Higher Education. 20, 3, 328-339.
Trowler, P. (2014) Academic Tribes and Territories: the theoretical trajectory. Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften (Austrian Journal of Historical Studies). 25, 3, 17-26.
Trowler, P. (2013). Practice-focused ethnographies of Higher Education: Method/ological corollaries of a social practice perspective. European Journal of Higher Education. 4, 1, 18-29.
Trowler, P., Hopkinson, P and Comerford Boyes, L. (2013) Institutional Change Toward a Sustainability Agenda: How far can theory assist? Tertiary Education and Management, 19, 4. 267-279
Trowler, P. (2013) Depicting and Researching Disciplines: Strong and moderate essentialist approaches. Studies in Higher Education, 39, 10, 1720-1732.
Trowler, P. (2013) Can approaches to research in Art and Design be beneficially adapted for research into higher education? Higher Education Research and Development. 32, 1, 56-69.
Trowler, P. (2012) Wicked Issues in Situating Theory in Close Up Research. Higher Education Research and Development. 31, 3, 273-284.
Shreeve, A., Simms, E., and Trowler, P. (2010) A Kind of Exchange: Learning from Art and Design Teaching. Journal of Higher Education Research and Development. 29, 2, 125-138.
Editor of special number of the International Journal of Educational Research. (47, 3, 2008), including: Trowler, P. (2008) Introduction. International Journal of Educational Research. 47, 3, 149-150.
Fanghanel, J. and Trowler, P. (2008) Exploring Academic Identities and Practices in a Competitive Enhancement Context: a UK-based case study. European Journal of Education. 43, 3, 301-313
Trowler, P. and Wareham, T. (2007) 'Reconceptualising the Teaching-Research Nexus'. In HERDSA Proceedings of the Annual HERDSA Conference 2007: Enhancing Higher Education Theory and Scholarship. 8-11 July 2007, Adelaide Australia.
Trowler, P. and Bamber, V. (2005) Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Education: joined-up policies; institutional architectures; enhancement cultures. International Journal for Academic Development, 10, 2, 79-93.
Trowler, P. (2005) A Sociology of Teaching, Learning and Enhancement: improving practices in higher education. Revista de Sociologia, 76. 13-32.
Trowler, P. (2005) Policy and Change: Academic Development Units and the Bologna Declaration. International Journal for Academic Development, 9, 2. 193-198.
Trowler, P., Fanghanel, J. and Wareham, T. (2005) Freeing the Chi of Change: The Higher Education Academy and Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Studies in Higher Education, 30, 5. 427-444
Trowler, P. (2003) Il Regno Unito e lo 'Spazio Europeo dell'istruzione' (The UK and the European Higher Education Space). La Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. (The Italian Journal of Sociology), 3, 357-370.
Trowler, P. and Cooper, A. (2002) Teaching and Learning Regimes: implicit theories and recurrent practices in the enhancement of teaching and learning through educational development programmes. Higher Education Research and Development, 21, 3, 221-240.
Trowler, P. and Turner, G. (2002) Exploring the Hermeneutic Foundations of University Life: Deaf academics in a hybrid community of practice. Higher Education, 43, 227-256.
Trowler, P. (2001) Captured By the Discourse? The Socially Constitutive Power of New Higher Education Discourse in the UK. Organization, 8, 2, 183-201.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2000) Academic Work and Quality. Quality in Higher Education, 6, 2, 109-114.
Trowler, P. and Knight, P. (2000) 'Coming to Know' in Higher Education: theorising faculty entry to new work contexts. Higher Education Research and Development. 19, 1, 27-42.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (2000) Department-level cultures and the improvement of learning and teaching. Studies in Higher Education. 25,1, 69-83.
Knight, P. and Trowler, P. (1999) It takes a village to raise a child: mentoring and the socialisation of new entrants to the academic professions. Journal of Mentoring and Tutoring, 7, 1, 23-34.
Trowler, P. and Knight, P. (1999) Organizational Socialization and Induction in Universities: Reconceptualizing Theory and Practice. Higher Education, 37, 177-195.
Trowler, P. (1998) What Managerialists Forget: higher education credit frameworks and managerialist ideology. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 8, 1, 91-109.
Trowler, P. (1997) Beyond the Robbins Trap: reconceptualising academic responses to change in higher education (or....Quiet Flows the Don?). Studies in Higher Education, 22, 3, 301-318.
Trowler, P. (1996) Angels in Marble?: accrediting prior experiential learning in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 21, 1, pp. 17-31.
Trowler, P and Hinett, K. (1994) Implementing the Recording of Achievement in Higher Education. Capability, 1, 1, pp. 53-61.
Reports
Trowler, V. with Trowler, P. and Saunders, M. (2018) Responding to Student Voice: Insights into international practice. Report to Quality Assurance Agency Scotland.
Trowler, P., Ashwin, P. And Saunders, M. (2014) The role of HEFCE in teaching and learning enhancement: a review of evaluative evidence. Report to the Higher Education Academy.
Trowler, V. and Trowler, P. (2011) Reports on Student Engagement to the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, 2011:
Conceptual overview
Synthesis of findings
Resource kit for leaders
Trowler, V. and Trowler, P. (2010) Reports on Student Engagement to the Higher Education Academy.
Evidence summary
International literature review (authored by Vicki Trowler)
Framework for action for institutional decision-makers
Framework for action for policymakers
Set of case studies
Executive summary
Trowler, P. and Wareham, T. (2007) Reports on the 'Teaching-Research Nexus' Project to the Higher Education Academy.
Literature review
Project findings
Trowler, P. (2011) Researching your own institution, British Educational Research Association on-line resource.
Trowler, P., Saunders, M. and Knight, P. (2002) Change Thinking, Change Practices: A guide to change for heads of department, subject centres and others who work middle-out. York: Learning and Teaching Support Network.