My introduction is here. If you would like to get in touch, you can find my work contact details here. You can also find me on LinkedIn. I have included links to some of key research outputs below. You can also find my research outputs on ResearchGate.
Featured research:
Climate change
McBride, K. & Nikula, PT. (Eds.). (2023). Sustainable Education Abroad: Striving for Change. Carlisle, US: The Forum on Education Abroad.
Nikula, P.-T. (2022). Beyond compliance – Voluntary climate mitigation by New Zealand firms. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.2283
Nikula, PT., Fusek, A., & van Gaalen, A. (2022). Internationalisation of higher education and climate change: a cognitive dissonance perspective. Journal of Studies in International Education. Advanced online publication.
Nikula, PT., & van Gaalen, A. (2022). Balancing International Education and its Carbon Footprint. Critical Internationalization Studies Review 1(1), 12–14.
Education Agents
Nikula, PT., Raimo. V, & West, E. (Eds.) (2023). Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education. A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective on Challenges and Best Practices. Routledge.
Nikula, PT. (2022). Education agent standards in Australia and New Zealand – government’s role in agent-based international student recruitment. Studies in Higher Education 47(4), 831-846.
Nikula, PT. & Kivistö, J. (2020). Monitoring of education agents engaged in international student recruitment: perspectives from agency theory. Journal of Studies in International Education 24(2), 212-231. Accepted manuscript available on ResearchGate.
Nikula, PT. & Kivistö, J. (2018). Hiring Education Agents for International Student Recruitment: Perspectives from Agency Theory. Higher Education Policy 31(4), 535–557.
Other higher education research
Nikula, PT. & Sibley, J. (2020). Supporting International Students’ Academic Acculturation and Sense of Self-Efficacy. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 4(2), 137-149. https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/tjtm_00018_1
Nikula, PT. (2018). Socioeconomic inequalities in higher education: a meta-method analysis of twenty- first century studies in Finland and New Zealand. Studies in Higher Education 43(12), 2305-2320. Accepted manuscript available on ResearchGate.
Nikula, PT. & Matthews, KM. (2018). Zero-fee policy: making tertiary education accessible and affordable for all? New Zealand Annual Review of Education 23, 5-19.
Sibley, J., Nikula, PT, & Dinwoodie, R. (2017). Accelerating academic acculturation and the development of selfdirected learning capability through online simulation (pp. 44-49). in E. Erturk, K. MacCallum & D. Skelton (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Computing and Information Technology Research and Education in New Zealand, 2-4 October.
Nikula, PT. (2015). Expansion and Contraction in Student Funding Policies: a Cross-Country Study of Higher Education Cost-Sharing Reforms in Finland and New Zealand. Doctoral dissertation, monograph, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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