2017
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1303460
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Early career academics learning the game in Whackademia

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“…The current study explores ECAs perceptions of their work environment along with their beliefs about their future career development, then explores relationships between these factors and intrapersonal personality dimensions. This study focuses on two Universities in England and aligns with a growing interest in the experiences of ECAs across multiple international contexts, including Spain (Castelló, McAlpine, and Pyhältö 2017), Australia (Bosanquet et al 2017;McKay and Monk 2017), and Canada (Acker and Webber 2017), as well as the UK (Smith 2017).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The current study explores ECAs perceptions of their work environment along with their beliefs about their future career development, then explores relationships between these factors and intrapersonal personality dimensions. This study focuses on two Universities in England and aligns with a growing interest in the experiences of ECAs across multiple international contexts, including Spain (Castelló, McAlpine, and Pyhältö 2017), Australia (Bosanquet et al 2017;McKay and Monk 2017), and Canada (Acker and Webber 2017), as well as the UK (Smith 2017).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In light of recent decades of change within higher education in Europe and elsewhere (Åkerlind, 2005;McKay & Monk, 2017), new ways of understanding academic work also influence how social capital is thought to be involved and can be perceived (Maritz & Prinsloo, 2015). The academic career path has been refashioned, as have the meaning and effect of social capital, which may more than ever play a crucial role in how career success is shaped (Berger, Benschop, & van den Brink, 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This will assist in preparing beginning lecturers for the transition from a PhD, or post-doctorate, for example, to a lectureship. This is important, because the transition from being a doctoral student to an early career academic is currently considered to be characterised by naivety and confusion (McKay and Monk, 2017).…”
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“…Reflections are included of my experiences with both undergraduate teaching and assessment. Most studies, to-date, have focused on 'older' academics and their responses to the 'new times' of contemporary academia, or what has been referred to elsewhere as "whackademia" (McKay andMonk, 2017:1251). However, as Archer (2008) questions, what about the 'new' generation of academics who have only experienced the current Higher Education context?…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%