Higher Education Research Group (HERG)

Higher Education Research Group (HERG) is an international, interdisciplinary research group

Publications

HERG Members Selected Publications 

Journal Articles 

Bamford, J., Karanicholas, S. and Moschini, E. (2026) ‘Reimagined Futures: Interpreting Pedagogy through the Student Voice in Higher Education – Special Issue’, Journal of Education, Innovation and Communication, 7(4). Available at: https://doi.org/10.34097/jeicom_7_4 

Bamford, J., & Moschini, E. (2025). Co-creation of connected and relational learning spaces: a digital and gamified approach in higher education. Higher Education Research & Development44(1), 205–221. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2429443 

Bamford, J. and Moschini, E. (2024) ‘The third space, student and staff co-creation of gamified informal learning: an emerging model of co-design’. London Review of Education, 22 (1), 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.22.1.21

Koutropoulos, A, Stewart, B, Singh, L, Sinfield, S, Burns, T, Abegglen, S, Hamon, K, Honeychurch, S and Bozkurt, A. Lines of Flight: The Digital Fragmenting of Educational Networks. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2024(1): 11, pp. 1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.850

Bamford, J. and Pollard, L.V. (2018) Developing relationality and student belonging: the need for building cosmopolitan engagement in undergraduate communities, London Review of Education, 16 (2): 214–227. DOI https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.16.2.03 

Pollard, L.V. and Bamford, J., (2021) Lost in Transition: Student Journeys and Becoming—deliberations for a post-Covid era, The Curriculum Journal, 00, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.132 

Book Chapters 

Bamford and Heugh (2021), Enhancing student wellbeing and student belonging in university through a gamification approach to rewarding and recognising extracurricular activities. In Turner, S., and Kalawsky, K., SEDA Special: Establishing a Wellbeing Equilibrium, SEDA Publications  

Bamford, J., (2015), ‘A window to the world’: the challenges and benefits of transnational joint Masters programmes for internationalising the curriculum. In W. Green and C. Whitsted (eds) Critical Perspectives on Internationalising the Curriculum in Disciplines: Stories from business, education and health. Sense Publications. 

Books 

Bamford, J., Moschini, E., and Tschirhart, C., (2022), Improving and Understanding the Student Experience: Navigating the Third Space, London: Routledge 

Bamford, J., (2020) Joint Degrees and International Transitions in Higher Education:  The Self, Pedagogy and Culture, Palgrave MacMillan 

Bamford, J., and Pollard, L., (2019) Cultural Journeys in Higher Education: Student Voices and Narratives, Emerald Publishing 

Keynote addresses: 

Bamford, J., (2025) Reaching beyond borders in a shifting global landscape: daring to reimagine the possibilities of transnational higher education, International Conference on Transnational Higher Education: Beyond Borders, TED University, Ankara, 28-29 November 2025 

Bamford, J., (2022),International Perspectives on the Role of Leadership in Improving the Student, Innovative Technologies in the Context of Foreign Language Professional TrainingUniversity Polytechnic of Poltava October 27th 2022