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Professor Chris Pole is the new Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), the independent UK-based international Society.

Professor Pole, a member of the SRHE’s Governing Council since 2014, said: “I’m honoured to be chairing what is the leading learned society in the field of advancing understanding of higher education and supporting and disseminating research.”

Professor Pole has taken over from Professor Jill Jameson, Professor of Education at the University of Greenwich, who was SRHE Chair for five years.

Professor Chris Pole

The Society aims to:

• Stimulate new forms of research and inquiry into higher education as a field of study
• Assist in developing research capacity in relation to the field
• Encourage and support those coming into the field of higher education studies
• Develop a network of scholars and researchers in the field of higher education studies
• Offer fora for the presentation of research and scholarship in the field
• Promote the development and widening of research methodologies in the field
• Provide opportunities for the publication of research and scholarship in the field
• Develop opportunities through which researchers in the field can engage with policy makers, practitioners within higher education and other potential interested parties so that policy and practices may be shaped by research.

Professor Pole joined the 91抖阴 in 2014 from Nottingham Trent University where he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic).

His interests in the sociology of education and of childhood have led to project-directorships with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. He has lectured and published widely in these areas and also in qualitative methodology, especially ethnography.