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Author : Miriam Kaplan Deitsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Occupational prestige
ISBN : UOM:39015028453788
Author : Aldo Geuna
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128016817
Global Mobility of Research Scientists: The Economics of Who Goes Where and Why brings together information on how the localization and mobility of academic researchers contributes to the production of knowledge. The text answers several questions, including "what characterizes nationally and internationally mobile researchers?" and "what are the individual and social implications of increased mobility of research scientists?" Eight independent, but coordinated chapters address these and other questions, drawing on a set of newly developed databases covering 30 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and China, among others. Combines theoretically sound and empirically fascinating results in one volume that has international and interdisciplinary appeal. Covers topics at the forefront of academic, business, and policy discussions Data used in the chapters available at a freely-accessible website
Author : Diana Rhoten,Craig Calhoun
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231151146
Universities Are Changing Around The World. In China and Africa there is massive expansion, while many of America's greatest public universities are experiencing major budget cuts. In Latin America universities have been affected by dictatorships and privatization but are now growing in ways central to economic development. In Europe universities built as state institutions are being told to raise more money from private sources and are being reorganized so they will compete better in global rankings. In this context clarity about the public mission of universities is vital, yet it is lacking both outside and inside academia. When universities educate students, is this simply a private benefit because it advances their careers? Or is it a public good because informed citizens are integral to democracy and essential for national economic development? How important is equal opportunity? What are the effects of hierarchy? Who pays now and who will pay tomorrow? Should the results of academic research be private property for sale or openly available for public use? Who sets the university research agendas? What kinds of scholarship flourish and what kinds suffer? Should producing competitive research take priority over educating competent students? Do international rankings distort these and other university priorities or provide needed objective assessments? What are the university's roles and responsibilities in terms of knowledge creation and dissemination today? And tomorrow? In this collection, scholars report from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America. They confront the realities and challenges of higher education as it is torn between multiple public and private agendas. This comparative perspective illuminates both the continuing importance of the university's public mission and the pressing need to clarify it. Diana Rhoten is the founder and director of the Knowledge Institutions Program and the Digital Media and Learning Project at the Social Science Research Council. She has published in a range of academic journals and advises cultural, scientific, and educational institutions on issues of organizational design, creative collaboration, and adaptive change. Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. He has served in a variety of academic leadership positions, including as a dean, and has conducted research in many international settings. His most recent book is an edited collection, Robert K Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science (Columbia).
Author : Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231552356
Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation’s universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most full-time academics employed in British universities, seeking to distribute increasingly scarce funding to those who use it best. How do such attempts to quantify the worth of knowledge change the nature of scholarship? Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. Combining interviews and original computational analyses, The Quantified Scholar provides a compelling account of how scores, metrics, and standardized research evaluations altered the incentives of scientists and administrators by rewarding forms of scholarship that were closer to established disciplinary canons. In doing so, research evaluations amplified publication hierarchies and long-standing forms of academic prestige to the detriment of diversity. Slowly but surely, they reshaped academic departments, the interests of scholars, the organization of disciplines, and the employment conditions of researchers. Critiquing the effects of quantification on the workplace, this book also presents alternatives to existing forms of evaluation, calling for new forms of vocational solidarity that can challenge entrenched inequality in academia.
Author : Robert T. Blackburn,Janet H. Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 080184942X
"Draws together empirical evidence on college and university faculty at work; develops and tests a theoretical framework of faculty motivation to engage in different teaching, research, and service activities; and suggests how administrative practices can be improved so that faculty work lives are enriched and institutions become more productive organizations." -- Resources in Education
Author : Johannes Angermuller,Philippe Blanchard
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031252419
This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in their fields, and yet they follow pathways which are anything but unique. Drawing from a unique data set, the authors analyse the trajectories of the almost 2000 linguists and sociologists who hold full professorships in Germany, France and the UK in 2015. With a background in social theory, they reveal models, structures and rules that organise the professional lives and biographies of the most senior academics. This book presents the results of a systematic empirical study, which will be of interest to specialists in higher education studies as well as to linguists and sociologists, and to all academics more generally.
Author : Sarrico, Cláudia S.,Rosa, Maria J.,Carvalho, Teresa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839102639
This timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility.
Author : Stephanie Beyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000428506
This book explores the stark stratification and struggles over classifications in US academia from a relational perspective, looking beyond material differences and tracing its roots to symbolic power relations. Based on a mixed methods study drawing on both interview and quantitative data, it offers an account of the workings of academia, shedding light on the structures that permit elite departments to define categories and impose legitimate scientific definitions, to which the non-elite must adhere. With a focus on two scientific disciplines, the author shows how the translation of objective structures into mental structures establishes a relationship of power with regard to the definition of scientific categories, thus determining access to resources and opportunities to participate and move within the academic field. A study of the unequal intrusion of economic logics into the academic domain, this volume will appeal to scholars, policy makers and institutional leaders with interests in higher education, inequality within science, academic careers, power relationships and competition in the academy.
Author : Maureen Baker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774823982
Women earn nearly half of all new PhDs in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Why, then, do they occupy a disproportionate number of the junior-level university positions while men occupy 80 percent of the more prestigious jobs? In Academic Careers and the Gender Gap, Maureen Baker draws on candid interviews with male and female scholars, previous research, and her own thirty-eight-year academic career to explain the reasons behind this inequality. She argues that current university priorities and collegial relations often magnify the impact of gendered families and identities and perpetuate the gender gap. Tracing the evolution of university priorities and practices, Baker reveals significant and persistent differences in job security, working hours, rank, salary, job satisfaction, and career length between male and female scholars.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UVA:X001303034
Author : Christine Musselin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135178383
The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy and in many countries reforms have increasingly addressed this area. This title examines this crucial issue through the use of empirical research - including over 200 interviews - on academic job hiring practices and faculty career patterns
Author : Wiebke Keim,Leandro Rodriguez Medina,Rigas Arvanitis,Natacha Bacolla,Chandni Basu,Stéphane Dufoix,Stefan Klein,Mauricio Nieto Olarte,Barbara Riedel,Clara Ruvituso,Gernot Saalmann,Tobias Schlechtriemen,Hebe Vessuri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000897326
Knowledge is a result of never-ending processes of circulation. This accessible volume is the first comprehensive multidisciplinary work to explore these processes through the perspective of scholars working outside of Anglo-American paradigms. Through a variety of literature reviews, examples of recent research and in-depth case studies, the chapters demonstrate that the analysis of knowledge circulation requires a series of ontological and epistemic commitments that impact its conceptualisation and methodologies. Bringing diverse viewpoints from across the globe and from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, sociology and Science & Technology Studies (STS), this wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection offers a broad and cutting-edge overview of outstanding research on academic knowledge circulation. The book is structured in seven sections: (i) key concepts in studying the circulation of academic knowledge; (ii) spaces and actors of circulation; (iii) academic media and knowledge circulation; (iv) the political economy of academic knowledge circulation; (v) the geographies, geopolitics and historical legacies of the global circulation of academic knowledge; (vi) the relationships between academic and extra-academic knowledges; and (vii) methodological approaches to studying the circulation of academic knowledge. This handbook will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in the circulation of knowledge.
Author : Premarajan Raman Kadiyil,Anneleen Forrier,Michael B. Arthur
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789901504
Career Dynamics in a Global World takes on a major question in the global research and practice of career development and adopts a distinctive approach in response. The authors address the question of how and to what extent a predominant influence of Western thinking about careers interferes with our understanding of careers in other parts of the world. The approach involves identifying career topics for further exploration, recruiting teams of Indian and Westerns scholars on each topic to share their insights, and laying out those insights to help both careers researchers and practitioners see their significance.
Author : Kaare Svalastoga
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000113677185
Author : Tatiana Fumasoli,Gaële Goastellec,Barbara M. Kehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319107202
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics’ perceptions of their professional contexts. The book demonstrates a growing diversity within the academic profession and new professional roles inhabiting a space which is neither located in the core business of teaching and research nor at the top level management and leadership. The new higher education professionals tend to be important change agents within the higher education institutions not only fulfilling service and bridging functions but also streamlining academic work to make a contribution to the reputation and competitiveness of the institution as a whole. Based on interviews with academic staff, this book explores the situation in eight European countries: Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland.
