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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
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Pedagogic Research within the Disciplines: Should It Be Included in the Research Excellence Framework?
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Tierney, Anne – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This paper is a response to Cotton, Miller and Kneale's 2017 paper on the current state of higher education research within UK universities. It seeks to contribute to the debate surrounding the inclusion of pedagogic research (PedR) via SoTL in the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the context of researchers who reside within a…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Higher Education
Ranking Accounting Authors and Departments in Accounting Education: Different Methodologies--Significantly Different Results
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Bernardi, Richard A.; Zamojcin, Kimberly A.; Delande, Taylor L. – Accounting Education, 2016
This research tests whether Holderness Jr., D. K., Myers, N., Summers, S. L., & Wood, D. A. [(2014). "Accounting education research: Ranking institutions and individual scholars." "Issues in Accounting Education," 29(1), 87-115] accounting-education rankings are sensitive to a change in the set of journals used. It provides…
Descriptors: Accounting, Authors, Departments, Business Administration Education
What (Who?) Buggered up the English Department? An End of Career Moan
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Sutherland, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
In this article Sutherland surveys over the period of the last 40 years (the length of an average full academic career) the changes which have occurred to the departmental structures and procedures in the teaching of and research into English Literature in British universities. He perceives a marginalization of the English department in the…
Descriptors: English Departments, English Literature, Administrative Organization, Educational Change
Equipped for the 21st Century?: Audio-Visual Resource Standards and Product Demands from Geography Departments in the UK.
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McKendrick, John H.; Bowden, Annabel – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2000
Reports on a survey of United Kingdom geography departments where data were collected on the availability, use, and opinions about the role of audio visual resources (AVRs) in teaching and learning. Reveals that AVRs are seen positively, hardware is readily available, software provision is uneven, and AVR commitment varies. (CMK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Departments, Educational Research, Educational Resources
Pedagogic Research and Evidence-Based Management
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Lindsay, Roger; Breen, Rosanna; Paton-Saltzberg, Renee – Psychology Teaching Review, 2002
The introduction of modular schemes and a semesterised academic year are amongst the most fundamental changes ever to occur in UK higher education. There is, however, a notable lack of pedagogic research evidence on the effects upon student learning of course frameworks and the temporal structure of large-scale learning units. In the absence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, School Schedules, Semester System
The Anatomy of Change: An Insider's Perspective
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Cockburn, Anne D. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
This reflective paper is an account and analyses of the change process forced upon a university's education department in the light of unexpected financial downfall. Rather than rehearse the well documented research on innovation and change it focuses on the process from the head of department's prospective. The issues raised highlight that there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Research