Prelims -- Using the sociology of Basil Bernstein in higher education research -- A probabilistic approach to studies in higher education -- Refocusing threshold concepts: surfacing and attending to student misconceptions as a necessary (and safer) form of liminal learning -- Creativity and playfulness in higher education research -- Capturing hybrid institutional logics in higher education: qualitative document analysis as methodological approach -- Globalisation and differentiation in higher education systems -- Exploring the complex social spaces of higher education: on the uses and challenges of geometric data analysis and topological approaches -- Methodological tracks to study research collaboration networks in higher education -- Longitudinal peer network data in higher education -- Casting the 'net' in autonetnography: exploring the potential for analytic autonetnography as an emerging e-research methodology -- Practice-focused, constructivist grounded theory methodology in higher education leadership research -- Human and social capital and their application in higher education research -- The state of the art of higher education research on Flanders -- Index.