This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains analyses and discussions of, amongst others, topic modelling, geometric data analysis,creativity and playfulness, longitudinal network analysis, grounded theory methods and autonetnography.

Introduction; Jeroen Huisman and Malcolm TightUsing the Sociology of Basil Bernstein in Higher Education Research; Michael Donnelly and Andrea Abbas A Probalistic Approach to Studies in Higher Education; Adriana Perez-Encinas and Jesus Rodriguez-Pomeda Refocusing Threshold Concepts: Surfacing and Attending to Student Misconceptions as a Necessary (and Safer) Form of Liminal Learning; Melinda Lewis, Jason Lodge and Rosanne Quinnell Creativity and Playfulness in Higher Education Research; Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh Capturing Hybrid Institutional Logics in Higher Education: Qualitative Document Analysis as a Methodological Approach; Jarrett Warshaw and Stevie Upton Globalisation and Differentiation in Higher Education Systems; Frans van Vught, Marijk van der Wende and Don Westerheijden Exploring the Complex Social Spaces of Higher Education: Challenges of Geometric Data Analysis and Topological Approaches; Fabian Mundt and Kenneth Horvath Methodological Tracks to Study Research Collaboration Networks in Higher Education; Denise Leite, Isabel Pinho, Celia Caregnato and Bernardo Miorando Longitudinal Peer Network Data in Higher Education; Jasperina Brouwer, Ellen Jansen, Andreas Flache andAdriaan Hofman Casting the 'Net' in Autonetnography: Exploring the Potential for Analytic Autonetnography as an Emerging e-Research Methodology; Lyz Howard Practice-Focused, Constructivist Grounded Theory Methodology in Higher Education Leadership Research; Sal Jarvis Human and Social Capital and their Application in Higher Education Research; Malcolm Tight The State of the Art on Higher Education Research on Flanders; Bruno Broucker, Jeroen Huisman, Jef Verhoeven and Kurt De Wit