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Symbolic Violence in Academic Life: A Study on How Junior Scholars Are Educated in the Art of Getting Funded
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Roumbanis, Lambros – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2019
It is widely recognized that universities all around Europe have taken on a more market-oriented approach that has changed the core of academic work life. This has led to a precarious situation for many junior scholars, who have to seek research funding to cover their own wages in an increasingly fierce competition over scarce resources. Thus, at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Researchers
Complexities, Challenges and Implications of Collaborative Work within a Regime of Performance Measurement: The Case of Management and Organisation Studies
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Jeanes, Emma; Loacker, Bernadette; Sliwa, Martyna – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The current demands on higher education institutions (HEIs) to become more efficient and effective have led to increasing performance pressures on researchers, and consequently on the practices and outcomes of researcher collaborations. In this paper, based on a qualitative study of collaborative experiences of management and organisation studies…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teacher Collaboration, College Faculty, Collegiality
Challenging Dualities
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Booth, Shirley – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
In this article, the author comments on two highly cited articles and how they link to wider trends in higher education research. The two papers in question, Angela Brew's article from 2003, "Teaching and research: New relationships and their implications for inquiry-based teaching and learning in higher education" and Gerlese Akerlind's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Models
Seeking Alternative Researcher Identities in Newcomer Academic Institutions in Sweden
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Hallonsten, Olof – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2012
Proliferating excellence gold standards in the global academic system tend to obscure the far-reaching diversification of academic missions, practices, ambitions and identities brought by massification. This article approaches this topic by a review of theory on academic scholarship and how it has changed in the wake of academic massification and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Scholarship, Research
Academics' Strategies and Obstacles in Achieving Collaboration between Universities and SMEs
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Karlsson, Jan; Booth, Shirley; Odenrick, Per – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
There is an ongoing debate both in the United States and Europe about the need to develop a broader view of scholarship and the different activities connected with it, including "service to the community". This empirical study reveals that researchers who are engaged in collaboration with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) encounter…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Cooperation, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Scientific Development, Research Organisation and Research Career. Swedish Research on Higher Education, 1983:6.
Elzinga, Aant – 1983
Perspectives concerning "research about research" are summarized, based on symposia sponsored by the University of Goteborg in Sweden. It is noted that studies of science, technology, and society (STS) are prevalent in several countries during the 1970s. Based on visits to STS programs in the United States, it is suggested that there are…
Descriptors: College Programs, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education