Postgraduate Student Affairs: Call for Papers

Higher education systems across Africa and the Global South are experiencing rapid growth in postgraduate enrolments, including honours, master’s and doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. At the same time, universities are increasingly recognising that postgraduate success depends not only on academic training and supervision, but also on the broader ecosystem of support, development, engagement, wellbeing and belonging that surrounds postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars.

Questions relating to postgraduate funding, inclusion, wellbeing, identity development, governance, transitions into, through and out of postgraduate studies, postgraduate attributes, local and international mobility, digital learning and institutional support structures for research education and researcher development are all becoming increasingly important.

This special issue of the Journal of Student Affairs in Africa (JSAA) will advance student affairs scholarship, policy and professional practice by examining how universities in Africa and beyond support postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars and how postgraduate student affairs can contribute to equitable student access, wellbeing, and success. The guest editors welcome contributions from emerging and established researchers, student affairs practitioners, graduate school leaders and professionals involved in postgraduate support, as well as from postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows from Africa and beyond.

Find the full call for papers here: https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/jsaa/article/view/7305/5285