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Julie A. Timmermans; Vijay Kumar – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
A full academic career encompasses both successes and failures. The purpose of this study was to delve into academic successes and failures, going beyond the conventional focus on objective measures, such as performance, rankings, and funding. Through semi-structured interviews with twelve senior academics from seven countries, we explored…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Success
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Winstone, Naomi E.; Ajjawi, Rola; Dirkx, Kim; Boud, David – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The increasing prominence of neoliberal agendas in international higher education has led to greater weight being ascribed to student satisfaction, and the national surveys through which students evaluate courses of study. In this article, we focus on the evaluation of feedback processes. Rather than the transmission of information from teacher to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), National Surveys, Student Surveys, Student Satisfaction
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Sutherland, Kathryn A. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Expectations around success in academia vary, and early career academics often receive conflicting messages about what they should concentrate on to achieve promotion or tenure. Taking a social constructionist approach, this paper considers the constructs of objective and subjective career success in academia and shares the perspectives of early…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Academies, Tenure, Qualitative Research
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Egan, Rylan; Stockley, Denise; Brouwer, Brenda; Tripp, Dean; Stechyson, Natalie – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
This article has its origins in exit surveys of 1335 graduate students (283 PhD and 1052 Master's) conducted at a mid-sized Canadian university from 1996 to 2005. The article explores the relationship between the perceived effectiveness of graduate supervision and the disciplinary background of graduate students. Students are categorized into four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Models, Supervisory Methods