Academic research and researchers

This book is concerned with how individual researchers experience and respond to this scenario. It brings together research and scholarship examining the socio-political context of university research and explores how researchers' perceptions and identities are changed by political and cultural...

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Main Authors: Brew, Angela , 1943- (Author), Lucas, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: England : Open University Press , c2009
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300 |a xviii, 229 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Academic un-freedom in the new knowledge economy -- 2. Research quality assessment: objectives, approaches, responses and consequences -- 3. The structure of academic research: what can citation studies tell us? -- 4. Research management and research cultures: power and productivity -- 5. Creating collaboration: an exploration of multinational research partnerships -- 6. Producing researchers: the changing role of the doctorate -- 7. Balancing different audiences: experiences of dutch academics -- 8. Post-colonial perspectives on interdisciplinary researcher identities -- 9. 'You do it from core': priorities, perceptions and practices of research among indigenous academics in Australian and New Zealand universities -- 10. Isn't research just research? what are candidates and supervisors thinking? -- 11. Learning to be a researcher: challenges for undergraduates -- 12. Understanding academics' engagement with research -- 13. Conclusion: directions for future research 
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650 0 |a Research institutes 
650 0 |a Research   |x Government policy 
650 0 |a Universities and colleges   |x Graduate work 
700 1 |a Brew, Angela ,   |d 1943- ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Lucas, Lisa ,   |e author 
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