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Hallett, Fiona – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
This paper seeks to analyse lecturers' views on how they understand academic development in order to elucidate current arguments around how knowledge is codified in higher education, and to what end. Whilst work of this nature has been carried out in a number of national and institutional contexts, much attention has been given to research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Development, Higher Education
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Glover, S. R.; Harrison, T. G.; Shallcross, D. E. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
Several UK University Chemistry Departments have former secondary school chemistry teachers employed as School Teacher Fellows (STF) who are heavily involved in outreach work and a range of teaching responsibilities. This study looks at the outreach role from the point of view of several of the STFs; the benefits, and the barriers and how this…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Departments
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Murphy, Mark; Curtis, Will – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
This study is based on interviews with 25 programme leaders at two universities in England. Programme leadership is ubiquitous and essential to effective university operations, yet there is surprisingly little research on the role. It is an ambiguous and complex form of leadership, existing as it does in the space between standard academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Department Heads, Leadership, Leadership Role
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Iqani, Mehita; Feigenbaum, Anna – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2015
In a series of Teaching Exchange (TE) staff development workshops aimed at exploring prospective, bottom-up quality assurance in media studies in the United Kingdom, interdisciplinarity arose as a key topic. This article reflects on teaching staff's views expressed in the TE workshops around interdisciplinarity in relation to their experiences in…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Opportunities, Barriers
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Sandberg, Håkan – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Previous work has identified a lack of focused research in the field of team working in university continuing education (UCE). However, teamwork could be seen as self-evident in UCE, in part because UCE is of interest to employees, employers, universities and society. The aim of this study is to "describe" teamwork in UCE at three…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Teamwork, Case Studies, Universities