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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Open University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 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