ISBN:
9781788119191
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
378.12
Keywords:
College teachers Job satisfaction
;
Education, Higher Aims and objectives
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Akademiker
;
Arbeitsmarkt
;
Berufslaufbahn
Abstract:
Examining the modern day challenges faced by academics throughout their working lives, this timely book investigates the ways in which academic careers are changing, the reasons for these changes and their potential future impacts. Contributors with insider experience of both traditional research focussed universities and newer institutions with an emphasis on teaching, utilise theoretical and empirical methods to provide international perspectives on the key issues confronting modern day academics.
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Figures and tables -- Introduction -- PART I ENTERING ACADEMIA -- 1. Living the dream … but for how long? Being an early-career academic in the context of 'excellence' -- 2. Career transitions from industry to academia -- 3. Career issues, paths and motivations: career stories of four UK academics -- 4. Three scholars at work: making sense of the twenty-first-century academy -- PART II DURING ACADEMIA -- 5. Get me a job! Thinking about student employability -- 6. From euphoria to letting go: experiences of cross-cultural adaptation of international academics in UK higher education -- 7. Exploring perceptions of academic management roles in the undergraduate student experience -- 8. External examiners: what do they do and how does someone become one? -- 9. 'Signature of mediocrity'? Variability and uncertainty associated with PhD assessment processes in the UK -- 10. Providing research supervision: a personal polemic -- 11. The effects of control on academic engagement, work-life balance and work-life conflict: is how we manage and what we measure actually contributing to what we strive to pursue? -- 12. The balance between teaching and research: challenges and contradictions in the context of the modern university -- 13. Caring and coping: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of lecturers' emotional labour in the context of higher education commercialisation and the consequences for staff and student wellbeing -- 14. The unseen pressures of academia -- 15. Apps and smartphone technology acceptance: lecturers' likelihood of using interactive polling systems in the lecture theatre -- 16. Being an academic in an era of rapid technological change and distance learning education: views of faculty members of a business school.
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DOI:
10.4337/9781788119191
URL:
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