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      Social ChangeSocial SciencesInternet StudiesSocial Networking
This paper draws on the results of research with artist academics – artists employed as academics within universities principally to teach artistic skills - over a period of almost four years. Through this research we have sought to... more
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      Music EducationArts EducationArtistic ResearchAcademics
This literature review forms part of a project funded by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) programme on staff transitions. It focuses on the changing nature of the academic profession in a context where approaches to teaching and... more
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      Scholarship of Teaching and LearningAcademic Work
Research shows that the ascendency of managerialism in the higher education sector and its fundamental contradictions with the professional values has placed misaligning identity claims upon academics. However, the identity tension that... more
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      ProfessionalismNeoliberalismNarrative and IdentityInstitutional Logics
Comparative literature research -- an article on female vampires.
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      American LiteratureComparative LiteratureRomanticismLiterature
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      Hannah ArendtAcademiaLonelinessAcademic Work
This paper discusses the organisation of academic labour as an expression of contemporary capitalism in Chile. The focus of our analysis is on so called 'taxi professors', hourly paid academics that carry out the majority of teaching at... more
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      ChilePrecaritySupporting Adjunct FacultyAcademic Work
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      PharmacologySocial TheoryInformation TechnologyEthics
Se aborda la definición del trabajo escrito académico, cómo se estructura y sus fases de elaboración. En una segunda parte, se dice cómo estructurar un ensayo, cuáles son su fases de desarrollo y algunas medidas de autoevaluación en su... more
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      EnsayoAcademic Work
In the neoliberal university, how do doctoral candidates (PhDs) and early career academics (ECAs) experience time? This analysis brings together two qualitative studies in Australian universities: interviews with 64 PhD candidates, and a... more
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      SociologyJacques DerridaNeoliberalismPhilosophy of Time
For almost two decades now, higher education in Germany has been undergoing a significant transformation, driven to a great extent by business imperatives to keep up with the ever intensifying international academic competition. Major... more
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      PrecarityGermanyHiger EducationAcademic Work
Satirical parallels between higher education (in the UK) and football
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      Higher Education ManagementHigher Education PolicyAcademic Work
This piece discusses an experimental ongoing research that began with my experience as an academic freelancer. It focuses on my experience of moving frequently within and between cities under specific work/ life conditions. An... more
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      Mobility/MobilitiesInternet research methodsAutoethnographyAcademic Work
This is the November 2014 version of a working paper which is a seriously over-extended abstract for the Academic Work in a Digital Era Symposium to be held at the University of Canberra on the 27th of November.
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As bibliotecas acadêmicas que dão suporte ao ensino e pesquisa em Artes Visuais podem ter em sua coleção, além de documentos textuais ou audiovisuais sobre o assunto, trabalhos de arte originais. Nesse contexto, a Biblioteca da ECA sempre... more
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      Artists' BooksArtistic ResearchVisual ArtsDigital Library
Previous scholarly attention to the experiences of faculty members has emphasized the contexts of US institutions, with minimal attention to the experiences of faculty members at Canadian universities. This paper presents the findings of... more
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      Higher EducationAcademic WorkUNIVERSITY PROFESSORIATE
Within the past decade, the unprecedented growth in non-tenure/tenure track faculty has led to speculation as to the learning environment and learning outcomes for students. Both national media and researchers have raised concerns about... more
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      Higher EducationLearning And Teaching In Higher EducationAcademic WorkEffect of Adjunct Faculty on University Teaching
Digital technologies and eLearning afford many rewards and pleasures including enabling academic work to be smarter rather than harder. This chapter is an autoethnographic (Ellis, 1999) account of academic work. Specifically, as an... more
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      Critical PedagogyDigital TechnologyAutoethnographyAcademic Work
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the... more
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      EducationEuropean Educational PolicyPrecariousnessWork Life Balance
‘Diversity’ is a dangerous misnomer in the white academe because the idea fails to recognise the politics of whiteness that structure a spectrum of assimilation academics of colour are positioned by. Taking the title and plotline from the... more
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      Race and RacismWhiteness StudiesAnti-RacismMigrant workers
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the... more
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      PrecariousnessWork-Life BalanceAcademic Work
Despite the rise of teaching academic (teaching only) roles in Australia, the UK, the USA, and Canada, the experiences of teaching academics are not well documented in the literature. This article reports from a university-wide study that... more
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      Higher EducationLearning And Teaching In Higher EducationEducation SystemsAcademic Work
Despite the rise of teaching academic (teaching only) roles in Australia, the UK, the USA, and Canada, the experiences of teaching academics are not well documented in the literature. This article reports from a university-wide study that... more
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      Higher EducationLearning And Teaching In Higher EducationAcademic WorkAcademic Workforce
The essay describes four scenarios of academic success from a young scholar's point of view. In Finnish.
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      The Critical Reflective EssayAcademic WorkYoung Scholar
It has been argued that leadership in higher education differs from leadership in other organizational contexts in part because of the culture of collegiality and autonomy underpinning academic work. Collegiality, however, is a complex... more
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      Higher EducationAcademic EthicsAcademic WorkCollegiality
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      Higher EducationAcademic Work
This paper reports findings from interviews with fourteen Australian artist academics, who discuss the complex relationships between their Arts practice, their Research and their Teaching. We refer to this as the ART nexus because of the... more
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      Performing ArtsHigher EducationResearch Informed TeachingLearning And Teaching In Higher Education
Este estudio se plantea como objetivo analizar la utilidad del ordenador personal en el aula por estudiantes de educación superior de la Facultad de Ciencias de Educación de Sevilla. Se ha empleado un cuestionario cualitativo y... more
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      Information TechnologyCommunicationComunicacionTecnologías de la información
This research paper was reviewed using a double blind peer review process that meets DIISR requirements. Two reviewers were appointed on the basis of their independence and they reviewed the full paper devoid of the authors' names and... more
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      EducationSociology of WorkSociology of KnowledgeKnowledge
This paper reports findings from interviews with fourteen Australian artist academics, who discuss the complex relationships between their Arts practice, their Research and their Teaching. We refer to this as the ART nexus because of the... more
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      Performing ArtsHigher EducationResearch Informed TeachingLearning And Teaching In Higher Education
Academics without PhDs are common in developing countries and among lecturers from marginalised communities, yet the literature on doctoral education largely ignores them. This qualitative study aimed to address that gap by interviewing... more
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      LiminalityPhD ThesisDoctoral educationAcademic Work
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsIndustrial RelationsTurkeyPrecarity
Research into effectiveness of teaching practices and professional development invites questions of teaching and learning change: how it takes effect and is accounted for, and where its agency is claimed and contested across a range of... more
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      Practice theoryAcademic DevelopmentLearning and TeachingProfessional Development
Se exponen las condiciones en que se desarrollan las relaciones de poder y la legitimación del discurso dominante en el desarrollo de la actividad profesional de los académicos de la Universidad de los Pueblos del Sur (UNISUR). Para lo... more
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      Discourse AnalysisGender StudiesGender and WorkSexism
This paper reports findings from interviews with fourteen Australian artist academics, who discuss the complex relationships between their Arts practice, their Research and their Teaching. We refer to this as the ART nexus because of the... more
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      Performing ArtsHigher EducationResearch Informed TeachingLearning And Teaching In Higher Education
This paper addresses the topic of work–life interferences in academic contexts. More specifically, it focuses on early career researchers in the Italian university system. The total availability required from those who work in the... more
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      SociologyEducationAcademiaEuropean Educational Policy
In the neoliberal university, how do doctoral candidates (PhDs) and early career academics (ECAs) experience time? This analysis brings together two qualitative studies in Australian universities: interviews with 64 PhD candidates, and a... more
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      SociologyJacques DerridaNeoliberalismPhilosophy of Time
We analyze a series of interviews with Estonian humanities researchers to explore topics related to the beginning of academic careers and the relationships with supervisors and mentors. We show how researchers strive to have meaningful... more
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      Higher EducationMentoringDoctoral SupervisionHigher Education Policy
The idea of'transmorphosis' will be used in this article to discuss the impact of new teaching and learning environments on the highly mobile global academic... more
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      Higher EducationAcademic Work
Academics without PhDs are common in developing countries and among lecturers from marginalised communities, yet the literature on doctoral education largely ignores them. This qualitative study aimed to address that gap by interviewing... more
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      LiminalityHigher Education StudiesPhD ThesisDoctoral education
Johdanto Seison ja kuuntelen. "No hirvee kiire, tosi paljon hommaa. Yks revisio työn alla, ja ton yhen paperin pitäis lähtee kohta. Niin, ja sit pari muutaki paperii, joissa oon mukana..." Olen hämmentynyt. En ole varma sainko... more
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      Academic WritingAcademic Work
In the last years, many scholars across Italy and Europe have focused on labour uncertainty and precarity in academia. With different approaches and various key concepts, like mobility, unwaged work, occupational identity, and... more
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      Film StudiesFilm AnalysisPrecarityAcademic Work
The ‘European landscape’ casts a long shadow in academic work with effects reaching way beyond Europe as a geographic space. As an academic in Australia, I recognise this shadow in my university, its enlightenment traditions and... more
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      SociologySocial TheorySociology of CultureEpistemology