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Motivations and Barriers for Young Scientists to Engage with Society: Perspectives from South Africa
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Riley, Joanne; Joubert, Marina; Guenther, Lars – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2022
Our qualitative interviews with 16 early-career South African researchers investigated how they view public engagement and its role in their research careers, as well as the motivations, challenges and institutional factors that shape their engagement efforts. We situate our findings in the context of high societal diversity and inequality in…
Descriptors: Motivation, Barriers, Foreign Countries, Novices
The Role of Social Networks in the Transitional Experiences of International African Doctoral Students at One University in South Africa
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Herman, Chaya; Meki Kombe, Charity L. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
International doctoral students' sojourn encompasses three transitional processes: to the new country, to the university and to a new academic identity as a researcher in a specific discipline. This article examines the role of social networks in facilitating these transitions for international doctoral students at one South African university. It…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Professional Identity, Graduate Students, Foreign Students
May the Subaltern Speak? Researching the Invisible "Other" in Higher Education
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Trowler, Vicki – European Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This paper, written as a confessional tale, explores the dialectic between the perception of the researcher ("how the multiple positions HE researchers simultaneously occupy in the field influence the framing of the research") and the reception of the researcher ("how the playing out of the researcher's role within the specific…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Researchers, Role, Research Methodology
Who Will Listen to Educational Researchers? Reflections on the Research-Policy Relationship in the Global South, with Illustrations from Africa
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Urwick, James – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
While it is widely believed that relevant research is needed for educational policy and practice, an important issue is whether policy-makers and implementers are really receptive to such research. This study sets out a conceptual framework relating to the issue in low-income countries, encompassing the cast of characters involved, contemporary…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Researchers, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Roots/Routes: Part II
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Swanson, Dalene M. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
This narrative acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. Following Part I of the same research journey of rootedness/routedness, it debates the nature of transformation and transcendence beyond personal and political paradoxes informed by neoliberalism and related repressive globalizing discourses. Through a more personal, descriptive,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transformative Learning, Disadvantaged, Poverty
The Complexities of Conducting Ethnographic Race Research
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Klaas, Jongi – Ethnography and Education, 2006
This paper explores the challenges and dilemmas of conducting ethnographic race research in the context of the South African situation, forming part of my ethnographic race research PhD project, conducted in two historically white, single-sex schools in South Africa. First, it critically examines the theoretical dilemmas on crucial issues of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Single Sex Schools, Classification, Foreign Countries