The imagined and the real: identifying the tensions for academic identity

Billot, Jennie

doi:10.1080/07294360.2010.487201

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“…These pressures include contradictions, for example between spending time on teaching and supporting students rather than focusing on research qualifications and outputs. The lecturers are involved in identity reconstruction and experience considerable role ambiguity (Billot 2010). The multiple identities held by lecturers in the health professions appears to include one of 'clinical practitioner' but the place of clinical credibility and skills in the identity of an academic appears to be unresolved in many of the lecturers' workplaces.…”

Section: Juggling Prioritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As an example in the UK, the research audit process has considerable power over the lives of academics (Harley 2002). Within this policy framework Billot (2010) proposes that institutions need to work at removing barriers that prevent academics from redefining their identity and also suggests that individual academics need to learn to tolerate role ambiguity.…”

Section: Changes In Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The contemporary academic: orientation towards research work and researcher identity of higher education lecturers in the health professions

Boyd

Smith

2014

Studies in Higher Education

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Boyd, Pete and Smith, Caroline (2016) The contemporary academic: orientation towards research work and researcher identity of higher education lecturers in the health professions. Studies in Higher Education, 41 (4). pp. 678-695.Downloaded from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1671/ Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form AbstractInternationally, the increasing emphasis in universities on the quality of teaching, on student employability and on a corporate approach to entrepreneurial income generation, has created a tension around the primacy afforded to published research outputs as a focus for academic work and status. In this study a framework for academic socialisation is developed and used to understand how lecturers in health professional fields attempt to 'juggle' four areas of work -teaching, leadership, knowledge exchange and research activity. Studying academics in professional fields, with a well-developed focus on employability and strong partnerships with employers, provides useful insight into contemporary academic work and identity. A significant proportion of lecturers in health professional fields, even of those working in research intensive universities, appear to 'subvert' the paradigmatic primacy afforded across the higher education sector to research outputs and identity as a researcher.

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Section: Changes In Higher Educationmentioning

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The contemporary academic: orientation towards research work and researcher identity of higher education lecturers in the health professions

Boyd

Smith

2014

Studies in Higher Education

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“…Ancak Billiot (2010) günümüzde bu değerlerin yerini üniversitelerin ekonomik, idari ve ideolojik önceliklerini temel alan değerlerle yer değiştirmeye başladığını belirtmektedir. Bu çalışmanın bulguları genel olarak değerlendirildiğinde, katılımcıların büyük bir çoğunluğunun, üniversiteleri özgürlük ve özerkliğin sınırlandırıldığı, baskı ve hegemonyanın gözlemlendiği, bilimsel araştırma yapmaktan çok öğretim işlevinin ve maddi getirisi olan çalışmaların öncelikli olduğu, çalışanlar arasında yapay ilişkiler, samimiyetsizlik, çıkar çatışmaları ve bencilliğin olduğu, üniversitelerin içe-dönük bürokratik örgütler olarak algıladıkları görülmüştür.…”

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Öğretim Üyelerinin Üniversite, Akademisyenlik ve Bilimsel Araştırma Kavramlarına İlişkin Algılarının Metaforlar Aracılığıyla İncelenmesi

Yıldız¹,

Gizir²

2018

HUJE

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ÖZ:Bu çalışmanın amacı, Mersin Üniversitesi'nin çeşitli fakültelerinde görev yapan öğretim üyelerinin, üniversite, akademisyenlik mesleği ve bilimsel araştırma kavramlarına yönelik algılarını metaforlar aracılığıyla belirlemektir. Araştırmanın örneklemini Mersin Üniversitesi'nin en büyük yerleşkelerinde (Çiftlikköy ve Yenişehir) yer alan fakülte, yüksekokul ve meslek yüksekokullarında görev yapan profesör, doçent ve yardımcı doçent olmak üzere toplam 223 öğretim üyesi oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın verileri araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilen ve 5 açık uçlu soru içeren veri toplama aracı ile metafor tekniği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Toplanan veriler "içerik analizi" tekniği ile analiz edilmiştir. Öğretim üyelerinin üniversite kavramına yönelik ürettikleri metaforların analizi sonucunda, bu kavrama yönelik görüşlerin üniversitenin yapısı, üniversitenin işlevi ve üniversitede ilişkiler ve iletişim olmak üzere üç tema altında toplandığı görülmektedir. Akademisyenlik mesleğine yönelik metaforların analizi sonucunda ise mesleğin doğası ve mesleğin işlevleri olmak üzere iki tema ortaya çıkmıştır. Bilimsel araştırma kavramına yönelik görüşler bilimsel araştırmanın doğası ve amacı olmak üzere iki tema kapsamında ele alınmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda genel olarak katılımcıların üniversitelerin bilgi üretme işlevinden giderek uzaklaştığına ve temel işlevleri arasında öğretim işlevini yerine getiren, piyasa odaklı çalışan ve çoğunlukla siyaset ve politika ile uğraşan yapıda kurumlara dönüştüğüne vurguda bulundukları; bilimsel araştırmaların birbirini tekrar eder nitelikte ve kalitesiz olduğuna; öğrencinin ise müşteri olarak görülmeye başlandığına işaret ettikleri gözlenmiştir. Anahtar sözcükler: Öğretim üyeleri, üniversite, yeni nesil üniversite, akademisyenlik mesleği, metafor. ABSTRACT:The purpose of this study is to determinate the perception of different faculty members of Mersin University about university, profession of academicianship and scientific research. Sample of the study consists of 223 lecturer that are working in the faculties in the two biggest campuses. Data of the study was collected via data collection tool, and analyzed by "content analysis". As a result of the analysis that faculty members produced about concept of university, opinions about this concept are gathered in three themes that are university's structure, university's function and relationships and communications in university. As an analysis of the metaphors about academicianship, two themes were found that are nature of the profession and functions of the profession. Opinions about scientific research are gathered in two themes as nature of the scientific research and purpose of the scientific research. As a result of the research, it has been observed that the participants were gradually shifting away from the information-producing function of the universities and transformed into institutionalized, market-oriented, and mostly politically engaged institutions that fulfilled the teaching function between their basic functions. The partic...

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“…In the twenty-first century, however, we may perhaps be witnessing another shift. Indeed, loss of academic freedom is a frequent complaint among academics (see e g. Billot, 2010;Watson, 2010). In response to this, Kolsaker (2008, p. 516) says that 'a casual visitor to an English university may be surprised, therefore, to encounter an environment where academics seemingly come and go as they please, have a relatively free hand in course design, and disappear to do "real work" (research) for days on end', adding that, 'faced with this reality, we need to consider whether authority is really sapping away from academics'.…”

Section: Examining the Indicators Of Functionality In The 3gumentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Today, How Can We Not Speak of the University?’: Towards the Next Generation …

Watson

2012

Power and Education

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Universities are currently in a period of transition as the Humboldtian institution reaches its limits and we move towards the next generation. These limiting factors include the massive expansion of higher education and increase in student numbers; globalisation; and demands that universities contribute to the development of the ‘knowledge economy’. Change is inevitable – but does this leave the university in crisis? Is the university still a functional institution? In this article the author's aim is to uncover just how far we have gone in this transition towards the next-generation institution; to celebrate those institutions that have embraced these opportunities; and to consider the implications of all this guided by (and providing a partial answer to) the question once posed by Jacques Derrida: ‘Today, how can we not speak of the university?’ The article concludes by considering whether there is room for a dysfunctional university, a university that in a sense opposes the call for functionality. In other words, is there (still) a role for a university as a critical and radical institution?

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The imagined and the real: identifying the tensions for academic identity

Cited by 219 publications

References 27 publications

The contemporary academic: orientation towards research work and researcher identity of higher education lecturers in the health professions

The contemporary academic: orientation towards research work and researcher identity of higher education lecturers in the health professions

Öğretim Üyelerinin Üniversite, Akademisyenlik ve Bilimsel Araştırma Kavramlarına İlişkin Algılarının Metaforlar Aracılığıyla İncelenmesi

‘Today, How Can We Not Speak of the University?’: Towards the Next Generation …

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