The Student Experience in Higher Education
Research themes
This research stream explores students’ experiences of contemporary higher education and the factors that affect the quality of their experiences and educational outcomes. Projects in this research stream adopt mixed-method approaches to examine questions about:
- Students’ transition into higher education and their First Year Experience
- The inclusion and engagement of students from under-represented groups
- The experiences and outcomes of students from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Student wellbeing and university experiences
- Student engagement and connection in university life
- The experiences of graduate researchers
Research group
- Professor Chi Baik, Professor in Higher Education
- Dr Tracii Ryan, Lecturer in Higher Education
- Professor Raoul Mulder, Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Higher Education
- Associate Professor Grace Thompson, FFAM and Senior Academic Fellow CSHE
- Dr Christopher Duffy, School of Mathematics and Statistics and Senior Academic Fellow CSHE
- Associate Professor Wendy Larcombe, Honorary Principal Fellow
- Dr James Waghorne, History of the University Unit
- Dr Samantha Marangell, Lecturer
- Dr Claudia Andrea Rivera Munoz, Research Fellow
- Michelle Walter, Teaching specialist, Faculty of Education
- Dr Dina Uzhegova, Program Coordinator
- Jacqueline Kuruppu, Post-doctoral Research Assistant
- Boya Zhao, Graduate Researcher
- Yan Zhang, Graduate Researcher
- Jiadi Cai, Graduate Researcher
- Ben Symon, Graduate Researcher
- Mariyam Nazviya, Graduate Researcher
- Lanwen Zhang, Visiting Graduate Researcher, Tsinghua University
Research projects
Recent publications
- Arkoudis, S., & Marangell, S. (2023). The international student experience in Australia. In C. Baik & E. Kahu (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Baik, C. & Kahu, E. (2023). What is ‘the Student Experience?’. In Baik, C. & Kahu, E. (Eds.). (2023). Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Ryan, T., Marangell, S., & Baik, C. (2023). Examining mental health and wellbeing policies in Australian universities. In K. Coleman, D. Uzhegova, B. Blaher & S. Arkoudis (Eds.), The Educational Turn: Rethinking SoTL in Higher Education. Springer.
- Ryan, T., Marangell, S., Symon, B., Waller, K., Rivera Munoz, C., Uzhegova, D., Arkoudis, S., & Baik, C. (2023). The student experience in times of major crises: Key lessons from an international scoping review. In C. Baik & E. Kahu (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Waghorne, J. (2023). The ‘student experience’ in the history of English-speaking universities. In C. Baik & E. Kahu (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Student Experience in Higher Education. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Enquiries
For more information and interest in research collaborations, please contact Professor Chi Baik.