Academic Identities

Gender and Teaching in Higher Education by Margaret Miles

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on the Feminism and Religion project

First thing to say is that your experience in teaching will be different than mine. Then was then (1978); now is... more First thing to say is that your experience in teaching will be different than mine. Then was then (1978); now is now.

My first position (GTU doctorate in history; assistant professor, tenure track) was at the Harvard University Divinity School. My starting pay was 15k and I felt rich because I’d been a grad student! The first thing I needed to know – and didn’t – was that everyone at HDS, students and faculty alike was sure that he/she, but especially she, was an imposter, the one that the search committee or admissions committee had made a mistake in inviting them. I became the first tenured woman at HDS in 1985. At the end of the 80s, still the only tenured woman, with a lot of help from my friends, I initiated a doctoral concentration in Religion, Gender, and Culture.

Organizational culture in the adoption of the Bologna Process: A study of academic staff at a Ukrainian university.

by Marta Shaw

Co-authored with David W. Chapman and Nataliya Rumyantseva

Studies in Higher Education 39(1)

The growing influence of the Bologna Process on higher education around the world has raised concerns about the... more The growing influence of the Bologna Process on higher education around the world has raised concerns about the applicability of this set of reforms in diverse cultural contexts. Ukraine provides an instructive case study highlighting the dynamics occurring at the convergence of the new framework with a state-centered model of higher education. The goal of this study was to examine the professional identity of faculty at one Ukrainian university and their perceptions regarding the implementation of Bologna at their institution. We found that
instructional and institutional innovations were successfully implemented only to the extent that they were integrated with the existing pattern of values and beliefs held by faculty. These findings provide insight for how other countries may approach Bologna compatibility in the presence of social and cultural forces divergent from those in which the Bologna process originated.

So Noxious a Premonition

by Mohamed Eno

Excerpted from my forthcoming volume Guilt of Otherness: A Brief Personal Memoir in Poetry

Strong and weak leadership exist everywhere, in every profession, and academia is not an exception. This verse is... more Strong and weak leadership exist everywhere, in every profession, and academia is not an exception. This verse is dedicated to all men and women academics who at some point in their professional life felt oppressed, frustrated or marginalized for one reason or another by the powers that be in their respective institutions.

“I Know I’m Unlovable”: Desperation, Dislocation, Despair, and Discourse on the Academic Job Hunt

by Andrew Herrmann

Herrmann, A. F. (2012). “I know I’m unlovable”: Desperation, dislocation, despair, and discourse on the academic job hunt. Qualitative Inquiry, 18, 239-247.

“Failure, says academic culture, is anything other than achieving the ultimate goal of a tenure-track professorship.... more “Failure, says academic culture, is anything other than achieving the ultimate goal of a tenure-track professorship. More specifically, the epitome of success is a tenure-track job at a major research university. You're still successful, albeit to a lesser degree, if that job is at a liberal-arts college, and even less so if it's at a community college. But a nonacademic career, well, that's just unacceptable” (Kajitani & Bryant, 2005, ¶ 3).

Through a Foucaudian lens it examines the academic success narrative, and the discourses of success and failure in academe. This multi-layered personal narrative delves into the bi-polarity of emotions on the academic job market, and the consequences of using technologies of the self upon the job-seeking subject. Finally, it is a reminder that as much as we want control over the process, we have little, and must live within ambiguity.

Symbole w działaniu. Akademickie konteksty nurtu symbolicznego w antropologii

by Jarema Drozdowicz

On the Power and Poverty of Critical (Self) Reflection in Critical Management Studies

by Ahu Tatli

Tatli, A. (2012) On the Power and Poverty of Critical (Self) Reflection in Critical Management Studies: A Comment on Ford, Harding and Learmonth. British Journal of Management, 23: 22-30.

Ford, Harding and Learmonth in their paper in the March 2010 special issue of the British Journal of Management ask... more Ford, Harding and Learmonth in their paper in the March 2010 special issue of the British Journal of Management ask ‘who is it that would make business schools more critical?’ Commenting on their paper, I argue that although they raise a very important question they do not deliver rigorous answers because their critical reflexive gaze fails to fall upon the mechanisms of hierarchy and exclusion that operate within the critical management studies (CMS) community. First the reflexivity debate in CMS and Ford, Harding and Learmonth’s contribution to this debate is explored. Next institutionalized orthodoxies in CMS, such as the tendency to close ranks for those with different perspectives and the lack of demographic diversity, are problematized, and Ford, Harding and Learmonth’s contribution is situated across these orthodoxies. Finally, the commentary offers some alternatives and solutions for CMS to take the step further from verbalism to critical praxis. It is suggested that the solution lies in exercising critical self-reflection which acknowledges the embeddedness of CMS in structures and relations of power and hegemony and recognizes the role of CMS scholars in sustaining and reproducing these structures in their own institutions and communities.

Deutsch als Wissenschaftssprache

by Hartmut Haberland

[co-author Klaus Schulte] in: Michael Svendsen Pedersen og Hartmut Haberland, red. Sprogliv – Sprachleben. Festskrift til Karen Sonne Jakobsen. Roskilde: Roskilde Universitet, Institut for Kultur og Identitet. s. 123-134

Organisational Identification of Academic Staff and Its Relationship to the Third Stream

by trevor brown

Published in Innovation through Knowledge Transfer 2010
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2011, Volume 9, Part 2, 95-112, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20508-8_9

Abstract
A university is a organisation where academics study, research and teach students. The archetypal... more Abstract
A university is a organisation where academics study, research and teach students. The archetypal “academic” has an image and identity that is as clear as a doctor or fireman. However the nature of a university is changing, the university is now required to seek out new relationships with businesses and non traditional “customers”, delivering learning and knowledge in new ways, frequently driven by commercial demands. University senior management teams are motivated by government and funding to meet these demands and steer the university towards these new goals. These new areas of activity are often referred to as the “Third Stream” TS (teaching and research being streams 1 and 2). The new mission, strategies and definitions of third stream initiatives form a changing organisational identity for a university which may challenge widely held notions of a universities identity by its member staff, the academics. Dutton et. al. (1994, p1) state; “Strong organisational identification may translate into desirable outcomes”. If the university wants its members (the academics) to embrace the changing mission of a university and undertake actions in support of the new mission, university managers must understand the organisational members (the academics) relationship to the new identity and aim to engender a strong organisational identity.

“Academics and the New Public Intellectual.” _The Knowledge Economy Academic and the Commodification of Higher Education_. Understanding Education and Policy. Ed. Tom Giberson and Greg Giberson. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2009. 13–26.

by Peta Mitchell

Co-authored with Angi Buettner, Victoria University of Wellington

In this essay, we outline an emerging form of public intellectualism in the humanities sector of Australian higher... more In this essay, we outline an emerging form of public intellectualism in the humanities sector of Australian higher education. We argue that debates over public intellectualism and its relation to the academy in Australia have largely been focused on the tension between polemics and politics. These debates have also tended to ignore or overlook policy drivers within the sector and alternative or new media sites of public intellectualism. Shifting the focus towards policy drivers in the knowledge economy—such as knowledge transfer and third-stream funding—and understanding the nature of the university as a public sphere in itself reveals a new economy of the public intellectual as a professional knowledge worker. This new economy, we argue, may well render obsolete many of the previous debates over public intellectualism in the humanities. However, we anticipate that it will generate new debates over the relationship between the individual and the institutional, and between the concepts of public profile and public role—debates that will affect, in particular, early career academics who are the inheritors of this new economy of the public intellectual.

http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=978-1-57273-910-9

The role of UK academics as security 'experts' for news media

by Ben O'Loughlin

2008 In : Royal Holloway Department of Politics and International Relations Working Paper Series. 7

Women, Research Performance and Work Context.

by Maryanne Dever

Co-authored with Zoë Morrison. Published in Tertiary Education and Management 13:1 (2009), 49-62.

This article presents findings from a study on the conditions that support outstanding research performance for women.... more This article presents findings from a study on the conditions that support outstanding research performance for women. While personal factors such as motivation, focus, and good scholarly habits were identified as influencing their research success, interviewees also placed significant emphasis on aspects of their workplace culture and practice (teaching and research connections, degrees of flexibility, work-family interface) that they felt were equally important in determining their options and opportunities for conducting research. This suggests that universities concerned with enhancing the research performance of staff need to recognize—and respond to—how workplace dynamics and culture shape individual research participation.

Gender Differences in Early Post-PhD Employment in Australian Universities: The influence of PhD Experience on Women’s Academic Careers.

by Maryanne Dever

Co-authored with P. Boreham, M. Western, M. Haynes, M. Kübler, W., Laffan, and K. Behrens.

This project was funded by the Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee Senior Women’s Colloquium (now Universities... more This project was funded by the Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee Senior Women’s Colloquium (now Universities Australia Executive Women). The report draws on data from 2,000 survey respondents to investigate how gender differences in early career academic employment paths and research performance are shaped by graduates’ family formation and PhD experiences.

Legal Scholarship: A Discipline in Transition

by Paul Chynoweth

Editorial, International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, vol 1, issue, 1.

Describes the scope and editorial policy of the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment in the context... more Describes the scope and editorial policy of the International Journal of Law in the Built Environment in the context of ongoing changes in the nature of legal scholarship. The shift towards policy and law reform issues is described, and the role of doctrinal, socio-legal, theoretical, interdisciplinary and comparative research approaches are explained. The editorial includes the following four sections:

1. The servant of the legal profession
2. The changing nature of legal scholarship
3. Editorial policy
4. Papers in this issue

http://www.ijlbe.com

BASED IN INDIA? Please contact me for further discussions about the content of the above paper at p.chynoweth@salford.ac.uk.

Legal Research

by Paul Chynoweth

Chapter 3 in Advanced Research Methods in the Built Environment

The chapter discusses the epistemological and methodological aspects of legal research undertaken within the built... more The chapter discusses the epistemological and methodological aspects of legal research undertaken within the built environment, as well as the cultural aspects that distinguish it from other research within the field. At an epistemological level it describes the defining characteristic of most academic legal research as a normative process of doctrinal analysis and demonstrates how this places it within the humanities tradition, with corresponding methodologies and cultural norms. The absence of an explicit methodology within legal research, as the term is commonly understood by the sciences, is explained in these terms. It is noted that this has traditionally caused communication difficulties between legal researchers and their colleagues in other built environment subject disciplines. The chapter therefore explores the various forms of legal reasoning which are undertaken by legal researchers with a view to making explicit the various implicit methodologies which are employed at a subconscious level. It concludes with some recommendations for increasing the quality of communication, and the level of understanding between legal scholars and scholars working in other disciplines within the field.

BASED IN INDIA? Please contact me for further discussions about the content of the above paper at p.chynoweth@salford.ac.uk.

The built environment interdiscipline: a theoretical model for decision makers in research and teaching

by Paul Chynoweth

The built environment subject area is now well-established as a recognised field of study. However, because of its... more The built environment subject area is now well-established as a recognised field of study. However, because of its vocational orientation it is usually defined in terms of a particular range of professional activities and aptitudes. In consequence the theoretical nature of its academic knowledge base is poorly developed. This has consequences for research and teaching practice within the field. Using established literature on the historical approaches to knowledge categorisation a theoretical model is proposed. This defines the built environment as an applied, but theoretically coherent, interdiscipline with a common epistemological axiomatic. The practical benefits of the model are illustrated by examples in the context of curriculum design, research strategy and the research-teaching nexus.

Reframing Professional Knowledge, Reclaiming Autonomy: the role of hermeneutical consciousness and language games in Higher Education teaching and learning

by Steve Taylor

Persona and the Academy: making decisions, distinctions and profiles in the era of presentational media

by Kim Barbour

Co-authored with P.David Marshall.  Accepted for presentation and publication in the proceedings of WCCA2011 World Congress on Communication and Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 17-20 2011.  Link to full paper made available after this time.

The paper explores the way individuals are part of the prestige economy generated by universities as institutions. It... more The paper explores the way individuals are part of the prestige economy generated by universities as institutions. It explores how the construction of online identities or persona is now an essential activity for the academic both from the perspective of university value and individual/career value. Five distinct types of academic persona are explored primarily through academics working in digital communication areas and through these cases and examples this new online communication environment is explored.  The paper concludes that institutions and individuals need to develop in the most pragmatic sense, online academic persona and ensure that these online 'selfs' are connected with authenticity to the professional work of the academic.

When Research Works for Women

by Maryanne Dever

A report co-authored with Zoe Morrison, Barbara Dalton and Sarah Tayton.

Twenty seven top female researchers from the university were interviewed about the specific pathways, strategies,... more Twenty seven top female researchers from the university were interviewed about the specific pathways, strategies, circumstances and research environments which had contributed to their strong research profiles. Interviewees included women from each faculty, from every academic level and a balance of teaching and research and research-only staff. Among the factors found to be critical to women's research performance were: a high degree of passion they had for their work; having good international connections and networks; having effective mentors and supervisor in the early stages of their careers; participating in collaborative or team research activities; supervising postgraduate students; having a close teaching and research nexus; having the capacity to concentrate research and teaching time; flexibility in the workplace; improved maternity leave provisions and family friendly work units; and moderate involvement in administrative duties.

Technologies of audit at work on the writing subject: a discursive analysis.

by Susanne Gannon

Studies in Higher Education, 2008

This article examines the everyday practices of writing in the context of the technologies of audit, as they have been... more This article examines the everyday practices of writing in the context of the technologies of audit, as they have been practised on and by the four authors in their capacity as students and researchers. It examines the activity of writing as governmentality, through which students and academics make themselves into appropriate subjects, and also exceed and disrupt the effects of government. (co-authored)