Professional and Higher Education

The Professional and Higher Education (PHE) SIG provides a forum for researchers to build critical mass and strategic focus in the areas of higher, professional and vocational education, and workplace and organizational learning. It supports theoretical and methodological discussions across these diverse sites in order to explore big questions facing post-secondary education, enabling members to develop research agendas in relation to student equity, globalization, knowledge, technology, policy and other areas. A key aim of the SIG is to generate new perspectives and widen theoretical and methodological frames for education research in higher, professional and vocational education, and workplace and professional learning, particularly by examining shared problems for these sectors and the relationships between them.
The SIG also aims to provide:

1. links with HERDSA and other professional bodies concerned with research in post-secondary areas;
2. a focus for the innovative work of doctoral students and early career researchers working across different post-secondary sectors;a space in which to link researchers in vocational education into a broader community; and
3. strong bids for funding from AARE for special events; and
4. international connections with higher education SIGs in other national research associations, including the British Educational Research Association, the American Educational Research Association and the European Educational Research Association.

The SIG welcomes the participation of researchers with diverse interests in and perspectives on all aspects of research in education and learning beyond the school years.

http://www.aare.edu.au/pages/higher-and-professional-education.html