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Constructions of Success in Academia: An Early Career Perspective
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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
Improving Academic Writing in Nursing Education
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Mattsson, Janet – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Academic Discourse, Writing Improvement, Content Area Writing
Healthy Work: Ideal and Reality among Public and Private Employed Academics in Sweden.
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Aronsson, Gunnar; Bejerot, Eva; Harenstam, Annika – Public Personnel Management, 1999
Swedish professionals (n=3,595) ranked their perceptions of healthy work. There was a great discrepancy between the ideal and the real for work intellectuality (stimulus, independence, encouragement of innovation and initiative). The value of work showed more congruence between ideal and real. Lowest-ranked aspects were being well paid and having…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Private Sector
Job Satisfaction Among Academic Staff: An International Perspective.
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Lacy, Fiona J.; Sheehan, Barry A. – Higher Education, 1997
A study examined aspects of college faculty's satisfaction with their jobs across eight nations (Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Mexico, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States) and the implications for governance and administration. Results indicate that factors related to work environment (university atmosphere, morale, sense of community,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Collegiality, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
A Victim of Their Own Success? Employment and Working Conditions of Academic Staff in Comparative Perspective.
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Enders, Jurgen; Teichler, Ulrich – Higher Education, 1997
A study compared employment patterns, working conditions, and workload among college and university faculty in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, England, Japan, and the United States, based on data from an international faculty survey. Results indicate considerable differences across academic rank, particularly in the European countries. However,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
The Peripatetic Professor: The Internationalisation of the Academic Profession.
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Welch, Anthony R. – Higher Education, 1997
A survey of 20,000 college and university faculty in 14 countries, particularly in large teaching and research institutions, investigated the extent of international mobility within this group. Issues examined in relation to mobility include gender differences, distribution among disciplines, patterns of employment (full- vs. part-time,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Employment Patterns