Academic Working Lives: Experience, Practice and Change

by Brychan Thomas (Editor), Caryn Cook (Editor), Lyn Daunton (Editor), Lynne Gornall (Editor), Brychan Thomas (Editor), - (Author), - (Author), Lynne Gornall (Editor), Jane Salisbury (Editor)

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2013
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Academic Working Lives: Experience, Practice and Change examines the ways in which lecturers and their roles have developed in the modern academic workplace. The book offers insights into changing occupational roles, institutions and the adaptations around flexible and mobile working in everyday professional life. The editors have drawn together an impressive range of research perspectives and themed topics that cover the key aspects of academic professional identity and relationships, as well as reflecting experiences of learning and development at work in today's academy. The contributors explore lecturers' everyday working experiences in the light of the impact of policy changes, and the modes of academic leadership and management in contemporary higher education. Contributions reflect situations and contexts from across the UK and internationally, in taking account of the changing workforce, evolving pedagogies and new technologies in the working lives of today's educational professionals.

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Academic Working Lives: Experience, Practice and Change examines the ways in which lecturers and their roles have developed in the modern academic workplace. The book offers insights into changing occupational roles, institutions and the adaptations around flexible and mobile working in everyday professional life. The editors have drawn together an impressive range of research perspectives and themed topics that cover the key aspects of academic professional identity and relationships, as well as reflecting experiences of learning and development at work in today's academy. The contributors explore lecturers' everyday working experiences in the light of the impact of policy changes, and the modes of academic leadership and management in contemporary higher education. Contributions reflect situations and contexts from across the UK and internationally, in taking account of the changing workforce, evolving pedagogies and new technologies in the working lives of today's educational professionals.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 19 Dec 2013
ISBN 10: 1441185348
ISBN 13: 9781441185341
Book Overview: Provides a fine-grained, multidisciplinary, multi-context and inclusive set of approaches to the challenges and complexities within contemporary academic working lives.

Media Reviews

I recommend this fascinating book which reports wide-ranging research into the `how', `when', `where' and `who' of academic working lives in higher and further education. Amongst many insightful contributors, Ron Barnett deserves special mention for his chapter which addresses the `why' of our workplace, suggesting that pessimists adhere to the perceived inevitable while optimists build change through the interstices of academic life. -- Dr Virginia King, Visiting Lecturer in Academic Practice, Coventry University, UK
The book unveils academic practices that are often hidden even for academics themselves. Established authors in the field brilliantly describe how tacit and informal aspects of academic working lives are actually the core essence of being an academic in the 21st century. After reading the book you start to observe your everyday working routines differently and making the invisible visible. -- Jani Ursin, Senior researcher, PhD, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
The contributors to this collection are at different stages in their careers and demonstrate perspective based on experience and contribution based on aspirations. Importantly insights are made about our working lives as a practice, with research and commentary about the realities of doing the job in dark times. While there is much to be concerned about I finished the book with a sense of optimism about the ability of ourselves to interrogate our work and to challenge prevailing orthodoxies. -- Helen Gunter, Professor of Education Policy Management, University of Manchester, UK
This compendium presents the reader with a myriad of international studies featuring methods of analysis on topics as varied as U.K. governmental policy regarding postsecondary education to the email habits of academics [...]. The book itself exemplifies the momentum behind the project; it effectively registers the impact that thirty years of ideological, economic, technological, and political change has had on the work life of the academic. -- Katherine Daley-Bailey, University of Georgia * Reflective Teaching *

Author Bio

Lynne Gornall is Leader of the Working Lives Research Team. She has held teaching, leadership and management roles in UK HE. The research group, established in 2007, comprises staff from the Universities of Glamorgan, Cardiff and Newport. Caryn Cook is Senior Lecturer in the Business School at the University of Wales, Newport, UK. Lyn Daunton is Deputy Head of the Glamorgan Business School at the University of Glamorgan, UK, where she is Head of the Division for Organizational Leadership, Learning & Management. Jane Salisbury is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Education, Education Policy and Qualitative Research Methods at Cardiff University, UK, where she is Director of PGCE programmes for the School of Social Sciences. Brychan Thomas is Reader at the Glamorgan Business School and Deputy Leader of the Welsh Enterprise Institute at Glamorgan University, UK.