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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 experience of work in both traditional and contemporary institutions utilise theoretical and empirical methods to provide international perspectives on the key issues confronting modern day academics. Split across three chronological parts this book guides the reader through the phases of an academic's working life and the unique challenges encountered at each stage. For those entering academia key issues considered relate to career paths and motivations and transitions from industry to academia. During academia chapters study the understanding of external examiners, questions surrounding student supervision, work-life balance, use of technology and the trade off between teaching and research. Upon leaving academia concerns turn to the difficulties of working past retirement age and emeritus roles. Exploring how academics survive and thrive in the modern higher education arena, this analytical book will be a useful tool for new and established academics and policy makers working in higher education as well as for programme leaders in educational management. Contributors include: A. Agarwal, D. Anderton, K.E. Andreasen, M. Antoniadou, W. Chambers, C. Cook, M. Crowder, P. Cureton, E. Epaminonda, M. Gibson-Sweet, J. Haddock-Fraser, J. Jones, A. Karayiannis, H. Kogetsidis, P.D. Ktoridou, S.-J. Lennie, B. Longden, S. Marriott, M. Mouratidou, T. Proctor, A. Rasmussen, C. Rees, S.K. Rehbock, K. Rowlands, P.J. Sandiford, J. Stewart, S. Wells

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction xvii PART I ENTERING ACADEMIA 1 Living the dream … but for how long? Being an early-career academic in the context of ‘excellence’ 2 Marilena Antoniadou 2 Career transitions from industry to academia 16 Mark Crowder and Maria Mouratidou 3 Career issues, paths and motivations: career stories of four UK academics 31 Maria Mouratidou 4 Three scholars at work: making sense of the twenty-first century academy 44 Peter John Sandiford, Ankit Agarwal and Sam Wells PART II DURING ACADEMIA 5 Get me a job! Thinking about student employability 67 Dane Anderton and Sue Marriott 6 From euphoria to letting go: experiences of cross-cultural adaptation of international academics in UK higher education 82 Marilena Antoniadou 7 Exploring perceptions of academic management roles in the undergraduate student experience 99 Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder and Jim Stewart 8 External examiners: what do they do and how does someone become one? 120 Mark Crowder 9 ‘Signature of mediocrity’? Variability and uncertainty associated with PhD assessment processes in the UK 135 Christopher J. Rees and Kate E. Rowlands 10 Providing research supervision: a personal polemic 152 Jim Stewart 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? 168 Caryn Cook, Joanna Jones and Monica Gibson-Sweet 12 The balance between teaching and research: challenges and contradictions in the context of the modern university 183 Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen 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 196 Sarah-Jane Lennie 14 The unseen pressures of academia 211 Janet Haddock-Fraser 15 Apps and smartphone technology acceptance: lecturers’ likelihood of using interactive polling systems in the lecture theatre 226 Dane Anderton 16 Being an academic in an era of rapid technological change and distance learning education: views of faculty members of a business school 238 Harry Kogetsidis, Despo Ktoridou, Epaminondas Epaminonda and Achilleas Karayiannis 17 Academic leadership: challenges and opportunities for leaders and leadership development in higher education 252 Stephanie K. Rehbock 18 Institutional research: unintended consequences in higher education 265 Bernard Longden PART III LEAVING ACADEMIA 19 Academics moving from higher education institutions: careers of PhDs after graduation 286 Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen 20 Retirement: a valediction to work? 300 Peter Cureton 21 Working past retirement age: from the point of view of a business and management academic 312 Tony Proctor 22 But I don’t like golf: emeritus roles 324 William Chambers Conclusion: time for a change 349 Index 353


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781839105401
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 392
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1839105402
  • Publisher Date: 24 Sep 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Time for a Change


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