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A Conducive Environment? The Role of Need Support in the Higher Education Workplace and its Effect on Academics' Experiences of Research Assessment in the UK
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Weinstein, Netta; Chubb, Jennifer A.; Haddock, Geoffrey; Wilsdon, James R. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
Little is known about how researchers in higher education institutions (HEIs) experience and respond to support received from their departments. The present study investigated how support for researchers' autonomy (choice and self-expression), relatedness (through connections with colleagues) and competence (feeling effective in one's work)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Higher Education, Teacher Researchers
Supported or Stressed While Being Assessed? How Motivational Climates in UK University Workplaces Promote or Inhibit Researcher Well-Being
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Weinstein, Netta; Haddock, Geoff; Chubb, Jennifer; Wilsdon, James; Manville, Catriona – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
Academic culture now places high expectations on researchers to demonstrate research productivity alongside teaching, leadership and knowledge exchange. In two studies of researchers across career stages in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), we examined workplace climate within academic departments as (1) supportive of researchers' needs for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Departments