Time to talk about hope in higher education

Abegglen, S., Burns, T., Heller, R. F., Madhok, R., Neuhaus, F., Sandars, J., Sinfield, S., & Singh, U. G. (Eds.). (2025). Stories of hope: Reimagining education. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 9781805115717

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https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi40.2078

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higher education crisis, critical pedagogy, educational values, academic precarity, student agency, hope as practice

Author Biography

Alistair McCulloch, Adelaide University

Alistair McCulloch works at Adelaide University in South Australia. A political scientist by training, he was Professor in Public Administration at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen before becoming Dean of Research & Knowledge Transfer at England’s Edge Hill University. He has lived and worked in Adelaide since 2009, and his current area of teaching and research is Graduate Research Education. Awarded two Australian Awards for University Teaching (2016 and 2025), he has also convened the biennial Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference (QPR) since 2012. He is very concerned about the direction being taken by higher education globally.

References

Eagleton, T. (2015). Hope without optimism. University of Virginia Press.

Mills, C. W. (1959). The sociological imagination. Oxford University Press.

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25-06-2026

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McCulloch, A. (2026). Time to talk about hope in higher education: Abegglen, S., Burns, T., Heller, R. F., Madhok, R., Neuhaus, F., Sandars, J., Sinfield, S., & Singh, U. G. (Eds.). (2025). Stories of hope: Reimagining education. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 9781805115717. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (40). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi40.2078

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No. 40 (2026)

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