This deliberately wide-ranging book addresses issues related to trust compassion well-being
grace dignity and integrity. It explores these within the context of higher education giving
existential and empirical accounts of how these moral duties can be expressed within the
academy and why they ought to be. The chapters range from values used in the marketing and
management of institutions to their realisation in therapeutic and teacher training spaces. The
book opens with a specific introduction which positions the work and outlines the context of
duties and obligations at play. This is followed by two distinct but related sections including
chapters on theoretical issues organisational practices and personal praxis. The first part is
more abstract and theoretical the second locates the values discussed within the practices of
the university. In doing so the book encompasses a wide range of issues from multi-disciplinary
and geo-political regions. The authors are a mixture of world-leading authorities on values in
higher education and earlier career researchers who are nonetheless equally passionate
contributors. This mix gives the book vibrancy and offers insight which appeals to both an
academic and managerial readership.
