Papers by Alison Elizabeth Jefferson
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Oct 18, 2023
Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting
The changing academy, 2022
Canadian Journal of Higher Education
Brock Education Journal, 2021
There is little research on the socialization of doctoral students in Canada. Using data collecte... more There is little research on the socialization of doctoral students in Canada. Using data collected as part of the Canadian sample of the Academic Professions in the Knowledge Society project, this paper explores the reported doctoral experience of full-time academic faculty in Canadian universities who were ‘successfully’ socialized to the role of scholar, to find potential factors affecting doctoral experience and career progression. This paper suggests that financial and faculty support are key to doctoral success. With disciplinary nuance alive and thriving, many contemporary doctoral students may be subject to unfair disadvantages, which may be of the underlying reasons for high attrition from doctoral programs. Results indicate teaching continues to be an overlooked aspect of doctoral training, in favor of research; the associated faculty support which often accompanies research, along with the potential for funding for the research-related activity, may be a significant factor...
Higher Education Quarterly
Academic inbreeding is a deeply ingrained practice which needs to be understood by reference to t... more Academic inbreeding is a deeply ingrained practice which needs to be understood by reference to the medieval guilds. Drawing on the guild concept and associated benefits of forms of capital, a distinction is drawn between ‘guild‐route’ academics who have followed a privileged, linear path into academe and their ‘non‐guild’ counterparts who tend to enter later in their career from the professions or industry, often without a PhD. The tendency to represent early career researchers from a guild background as members of an academic proletariat is largely misleading and fails to take account of their privileged entrée into academe. Their experience is contrasted with those recruited via the non‐guild route who do not have the benefits of the valued social, cultural or symbolic capital needed to advance their careers. Policy implications are discussed to better understand the effects of academic social class on recruitment practices in universities.
Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies
Journal of Higher Education Policy And Leadership Studies, 2021
Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
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Papers by Alison Elizabeth Jefferson