Jerome Carson

Professor Marius Romme has been one of the most influential psychiatrists of his generation. He revolutionized the approach to working with people who hear voices. This Living Tribute to Marius features short accounts by many of those he has worked with over the decades from both professional and lived experience perspectives. Thanks to his work and all those who have worked with him, hearing voices is no longer dismissed as a symptom of schizophrenia requiring medication, but as something to be understood in the context of each person’s unique life history.

The past few years has witnessed a proliferation of new journals in the fields of educational research. This is due to the fact that enhancing student learning experiences has become very important in Higher Education (HE) due to increased student enrolment and diversification (Newman et al., 2004; Barber et al., 2013; Chowdry et al., 2013; Hornsby and Osman, 2014). Therefore, the publication of the first volume of still another Journal focusing on those areas deserves some introductory comments.