The Higher Education Research & Development journal is calling for scholarly contributions for a special issue focusing on the benefits and challenges of integrating lived experience in higher education teaching. The issue will examine the multifaceted role of lived experience in higher education teaching, with ‘lived experience’ referring to expertise from those living with physical and mental health conditions, disabilities, neurodiversity, or trauma, or from minority genders, ethnicities, or other identities.
Contributions to this special issue may include a variety of approaches, including the incorporation of teachers’ own lived experiences, the sharing of others’ lived experiences, and co-production methods. Papers can draw on various paradigms, such as autoethnography, empirical, theoretical, ethical, and historical. The manuscript deadline is 25 April, 2025. Find out more here or email the guest co-editor of the issue, Snita Ahir-Knight.