Modern day challenges in academia : time for a change /: time for a change. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marilena Antoniadou and Mark Crowder.
• Editors: Antoniadou, Marilena; Crowder, Mark
• Other Names: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
• Contents: Introduction (xvii) ; PART I. ENTERING ACADEMIA: 1. Living the dream... but for how long? : Being an early-career academic in the context of 'excellence' (2) / Marilena Antoniadou -- 2. Career transitions from industry to academia (16) / Mark Crowder and Maria Mouratidou -- 3. Career issues, paths and motivations: career stories of four UK academics (31) / Maria Mouratidou -- 4. Three scholars at work: making sense of the twenty-first century academy (44) / Peter John Sandiford, Ankit Agarwal and Sam Wells -- PART II. DURING ACADEMIA: 5. Get me a job! Thinking about student employability (67) / Dane Anderton and Sue Marriott -- 6. From euphoria to letting go : experiences of cross-cultural adaptation of international academics in UK higher education (82) / Marilena Antoniadou -- 7. Exploring perceptions of academic management roles in the undergraduate student experience (99) / Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder and Jim Stewart -- 8. External examiners : what do they do and how does someone become one? (120) / Mark Crowder -- 9. 'Signature of mediocrity'? Variability and uncertainty associated with PhD assessment processes in the UK (135) / Christopher J. Rees and Kate E. Rowlands -- 10. Providing research supervision : a personal polemic (152) / Jim Stewart -- 11. The effects of control on academic engagement, work-life balance and work-life conflict: is how we manage and what we measure actually contributing to what we strive to pursue? (168) / Caryn Cook, Joanna Jones and Monica Gibson-Sweet -- 12. The balance between teaching and research : challenges and contradictions in the context of the modern university (183) / Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen -- 13. Caring and coping: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of lecturers' emotional labour in the context of higher education commercialisation and the consequences for staff and student wellbeing (196) / Sarah-Jane Lennie -- 14. The unseen pressures of academia (211) / Janet Haddock-Fraser -- 15. Apps and smartphone technology acceptance : lecturers' likelihood of using interactive polling systems in the lecture theatre (226) / Dane Anderton -- 16. Being an academic in an era of rapid technological change and distance learning education: views of faculty members of a business school (238) / Harry Kogetsidis, Despo Ktoridou, Epaminondas Epaminonda and Achilleas Karayiannis -- 17. Academic leadership: challenges and opportunities for leaders and leadership development in higher education (252) / Stephanie K. Rehbock -- 18. Institutional research: unintended consequences in higher education (265) / Bernard Longden -- PART III. LEAVING ACADEMIA: 19. Academics moving from higher education institutions : careers of PhDs after graduation (286) / Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen -- 20. Retirement : a valediction to work? (300) / Peter Cureton -- 21. Working past retirement age : from the point of view of a business and management academic (312) / Tony Proctor -- 22. But I don't like golf : emeritus roles (324) / William Chambers -- Conclusion : time for a change (349) -- Index (353).
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (392 pages)
• Subjects: 378.12023; College teachers -- Job satisfaction; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives; College teachers -- Job satisfaction; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788119191; 1788119193
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print record.
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