Dr Lisa Lucas

Summary

My research interests focuses on higher education policy in a global context and in particular, the funding of higher education and the evaluation of the quality of research and teaching. I am also interested in policies on access and equity in higher education. My research also focuses on academic work, including early career academics and policies guiding the development of doctoral education.

Biography

Lisa Lucas joined the Graduate School of Education in October 2002. Her background is in Sociology and she was previously a Research Fellow in the Department of Educational and Professional Development at University College London working on projects relating to Widening Participation initiatives in Higher Education.

She specialises in a number of areas of higher education research. In particular, she has focused on policy issues in higher education, primarily the funding and evaluation of university research, and has looked at the impact of this on the university management as well as academic work in different European and Australasian countries. She has also been researching academic work and identity, particularly in relation to the question of the links between research and teaching. She is author of The Research Game in Academic Life, published in 2006 by SRHE/McGraw-Hill and Academic Research and Researchers (edited with Angela Brew), published in 2009 by SRHE/McGraw-Hill. Recent publications include, ‘Academic Resistance in the UK: challenging quality assurance processes in higher education’ Policy and Society (2014) and she has just completed a review of ‘Performance-based Research Assessment in Higher Education’ for Oxford Bibliographies.

Keywords

• Sociology of higher education
• higher education
• university research evaluation and funding
• the links between research and teaching in higher education
• postgraduate education
• research and teaching

Skills

• Society for Research in Higher Education.
• Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
• European Educational Research Association.

Memberships

Organisations

School of Education

GlobalHigherEd

SRHE - Society for Research into Higher Education

Recent publications

• Rodriguez-Gomez, D, Gairin, J, Dovigo, F, Clements, K, Jeronimo, M, Lucas, L, Marin, E, Mehtala, S, Pinheiro, FP, Timmis, S & Stingu, M, 2019, ‘ACCESS4ALL: Policies and Practices of Social Development in Higher Education’. in: Jaimie Hoffman, Patrick Blessinger, Mandla Makhanya (eds) Strategies for Facilitating Inclusive Campuses in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion. Emerald, Bingly, pp. 55-70
• Lucas, L, 2019, ‘Intensification of Neoliberal Reform of Higher Education in England or 'Change' as 'More of the Same'’. in: Bruno Broucker, Kurt de Wit, Jef C Verhoeven, Liudvika Leisyte (eds) Higher Education System Reform: an international comparison after twenty years of Bologna. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 165-178
• Brew, A, Boud, D, Lucas, L & Crawford, K, 2018, ‘Academic artisans in the research university’. Higher Education, vol 76., pp. 115-127
• Brew, A, Boud, D, Crawford, K & Lucas, L, 2018, ‘Navigating the demands of academic work to shape an academic job’. Studies in Higher Education, vol 43., pp. 2294-2304
• Lucas, L, 2017, ‘Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University’. in: Susan Wright, Cris Shore (eds) Death of the Public University?: Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy. Berghahn Books
• Brew, A, Boud, D, Lucas, L & Crawford, K, 2017, ‘Responding to university policies and initiatives: The role of reflexivity in the mid-career academic’. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol 39., pp. 378-389
• Brew, A, Boud, D, Namgung, SU, Lucas, L & Crawford, K, 2016, ‘Research productivity and academics' conceptions of research’. Higher Education, vol 71., pp. 681-697
• Lucas, L, 2014, ‘Academic Resistance in the UK: challenging quality assurance processes in higher education’. Policy and Society, vol 33., pp. 215-224
• Brew, A, Boud, D, Lucas, L & Crawford, K, 2013, ‘Reflexive Deliberation in international research collaboration: minimising risk and maximising opportunity’. Higher Education.
• Lucas, L, 2012, ‘Ethnographic Journeys in Higher Education’. in: S Delamont (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 170 - 180

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Dr Lucas currently teaches 1 courses: