Richard Winter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Winter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Winter |
| SIGNATURE | WINTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2897-3256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 196 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Service-user research and Peter Kropotkin: A personal note of thanks to Professor Carol Munn-Giddings
When Carol first joined the group of colleagues interested in action research as a form of inquiry, I was slightly surprised by the fact that she emphasized the importance of involving ‘service-use
Academic identity tensions in the public university: Which Values Really Matter
Our study explores the relationship between values and academic identity in the public university. Framing the study is the proposition public universities face academic identity tensions arising from pressures to combine and sustain competing and contradictory managerial (economic) and academic (professional) values systems. Academic responses to an online survey indicated professors and lecturers shared a deep-seated antipathy to a market ethos…
Academic manager or managed academic? Academic identity schisms in higher education
The relationship between values and academic identity has received scant attention in the higher education literature with some notable exceptions (Churchman, 2006; Harley, 2002; Henkel, 2005). This paper contends that the perceived need to align all academics around corporate values and goals has given rise to academic identity schisms in higher education. Central to the academic identity schism is the notion of person-organisation values fit an…
The 'Academic' Qualities of Practice: What are the criteria for a practice-based PhD
This article explores the nature of the criteria which would be appropriate for evaluating a report on practice development submitted for a doctoral thesis-a significant issue in the various professional contexts where 'action research' or 'evaluation' is increasingly being adopted as a basis for PhD work. The practice-base of this article itself, and the urgency of the problems, are presented by means of reflections on the examination of particu…
Trouble at Mill: Quality of academic worklife issues within a comprehensive Australian university
This study describes the quality of academic worklife (QAWL) within a comprehensive university in Australia. Academics responded to the Academic Work Environment Survey, a diagnostic instrument designed to assess the relationships between and among academics' demographic characteristics (age, gender, position, discipline area), work environment perceptions (role, job, supervisor, structure, sector characteristics), and work attitudes (self-estran…
A bleak outlook: Academic staff perceptions of changes in core activities in Australian higher education, 1991-96
A survey of the perceptions of academic staff from three representative universities to recent higher education reform in Australia has revealed a high level of concern in many areas of academic responsibility and a dismal assessment of future prospects. This article reports responses to issues involving the mainstream activities of teaching and research as well as to the standard of undergraduate students and the extent of academic freedom. The …
Work‐based Learning and Quality Assurance in Higher Education
The debate concerning quality assurance in higher education is frequently conducted in terms originating outside the culture of academic institutions, such as ‘fitness for purpose’ and ‘meeting customer expectations’, which are often experienced as jarring with traditional conceptions of higher education. However, quality assurance issues surrounding the accreditation of work‐based learning within academic awards suggest how these terms may serve…
Education or grading? Arguments for a non-subdivided honours degree
A fundamental difficulty prevents the incorporation of recent higher education (HE) initiatives (‘enterprise ̊s, ‘capability ̊s, etc.) into the basic HE course structure. The new initiatives are based on the explicit description of complex learning outcomes, and therefore require criterion-referenced, pass-fail assessment. The classified honours degree, the centre of the current HE course structure, is (in contrast) a norm-referenced format which…
Mathophobia’, pythagoras and roller‐skating
Post‐modern Sociology as a Democratic Educational Practice? Some suggestions
This paper explores the relationships between sociology, democracy and education. Its main argument is that post‐modernist theory (in spite of its own inherent inconsistencies) can be interpreted as a constructive challenge to the hierarchical presuppositions of academic sociology. It can thus help to provide a theoretical framework for formulating a new set of institutional arrangements for social inquiry, which would reconstitute sociology as a…
Interviewers, Interviewees and the Exercise of Power (Fictional‐critical Writing as a Method for Educational Research)
This paper reports an investigation into the process of interviewing applicants for places on an inservice course for teachers in an institution of higher education. A number of interviews were tape‐recorded and transcribed, as were some of the discussions between the interviewers concerning the applicants. Attention is drawn to the problems created by the power dimension of the interview process, which is often taken for granted by interviewers.…
Political Choice & Expenditure Change in New Hampshire & Vermont
Recent analyses of spending and taxing policies of the American states have been largely cross-sectional and aggregate. Comparisons of a few or pairs of states are rarely presented in the relevant literature. In this article Richard Winters examines the differences of budgetary policies and their causes in New Hampshire and Vermont. These two states are particularly interesting subjects because of their social, economic, and cultural similarity a…
Party Control and Policy Change
A major unexamined independent variable in the field of American state budgetary analysis is political party control. By moving to a pooled, longitudinal design (thirty-four states over nine biennia), I test for the effects of variations in political party control with changes in the redistribution ratio (Fry and Winters, 1970). As the ratio reflects policies indulging or depriving lower income classes, I hypothesize that the Democratic party, de…
Academic manager or managed academic? Academic identity schisms in higher education
The relationship between values and academic identity has received scant attention in the higher education literature with some notable exceptions (Churchman, 2006; Harley, 2002; Henkel, 2005). This paper contends that the perceived need to align all academics around corporate values and goals has given rise to academic identity schisms in higher education. Central to the academic identity schism is the notion of person-organisation values fit an…
Party Control and Policy Change
A major unexamined independent variable in the field of American state budgetary analysis is political party control. By moving to a pooled, longitudinal design (thirty-four states over nine biennia), I test for the effects of variations in political party control with changes in the redistribution ratio (Fry and Winters, 1970). As the ratio reflects policies indulging or depriving lower income classes, I hypothesize that the Democratic party, de…
Trouble at Mill: Quality of academic worklife issues within a comprehensive Australian university
This study describes the quality of academic worklife (QAWL) within a comprehensive university in Australia. Academics responded to the Academic Work Environment Survey, a diagnostic instrument designed to assess the relationships between and among academics' demographic characteristics (age, gender, position, discipline area), work environment perceptions (role, job, supervisor, structure, sector characteristics), and work attitudes (self-estran…
Academic identity tensions in the public university: Which Values Really Matter
Our study explores the relationship between values and academic identity in the public university. Framing the study is the proposition public universities face academic identity tensions arising from pressures to combine and sustain competing and contradictory managerial (economic) and academic (professional) values systems. Academic responses to an online survey indicated professors and lecturers shared a deep-seated antipathy to a market ethos…
The 'Academic' Qualities of Practice: What are the criteria for a practice-based PhD
This article explores the nature of the criteria which would be appropriate for evaluating a report on practice development submitted for a doctoral thesis-a significant issue in the various professional contexts where 'action research' or 'evaluation' is increasingly being adopted as a basis for PhD work. The practice-base of this article itself, and the urgency of the problems, are presented by means of reflections on the examination of particu…
Post‐modern Sociology as a Democratic Educational Practice? Some suggestions
This paper explores the relationships between sociology, democracy and education. Its main argument is that post‐modernist theory (in spite of its own inherent inconsistencies) can be interpreted as a constructive challenge to the hierarchical presuppositions of academic sociology. It can thus help to provide a theoretical framework for formulating a new set of institutional arrangements for social inquiry, which would reconstitute sociology as a…
A bleak outlook: Academic staff perceptions of changes in core activities in Australian higher education, 1991-96
A survey of the perceptions of academic staff from three representative universities to recent higher education reform in Australia has revealed a high level of concern in many areas of academic responsibility and a dismal assessment of future prospects. This article reports responses to issues involving the mainstream activities of teaching and research as well as to the standard of undergraduate students and the extent of academic freedom. The …
Political Choice & Expenditure Change in New Hampshire & Vermont
Recent analyses of spending and taxing policies of the American states have been largely cross-sectional and aggregate. Comparisons of a few or pairs of states are rarely presented in the relevant literature. In this article Richard Winters examines the differences of budgetary policies and their causes in New Hampshire and Vermont. These two states are particularly interesting subjects because of their social, economic, and cultural similarity a…
Education or grading? Arguments for a non-subdivided honours degree
A fundamental difficulty prevents the incorporation of recent higher education (HE) initiatives (‘enterprise ̊s, ‘capability ̊s, etc.) into the basic HE course structure. The new initiatives are based on the explicit description of complex learning outcomes, and therefore require criterion-referenced, pass-fail assessment. The classified honours degree, the centre of the current HE course structure, is (in contrast) a norm-referenced format which…
Interviewers, Interviewees and the Exercise of Power (Fictional‐critical Writing as a Method for Educational Research)
This paper reports an investigation into the process of interviewing applicants for places on an inservice course for teachers in an institution of higher education. A number of interviews were tape‐recorded and transcribed, as were some of the discussions between the interviewers concerning the applicants. Attention is drawn to the problems created by the power dimension of the interview process, which is often taken for granted by interviewers.…
Party Control and Policy Change
A major unexamined independent variable in the field of American state budgetary analysis is political party control. By moving to a pooled, longitudinal design (thirty-four states over nine biennia), I test for the effects of variations in political party control with changes in the redistribution ratio (Fry and Winters, 1970). As the ratio reflects policies indulging or depriving lower income classes, I hypothesize that the Democratic party, de…
Political Choice & Expenditure Change in New Hampshire & Vermont
Recent analyses of spending and taxing policies of the American states have been largely cross-sectional and aggregate. Comparisons of a few or pairs of states are rarely presented in the relevant literature. In this article Richard Winters examines the differences of budgetary policies and their causes in New Hampshire and Vermont. These two states are particularly interesting subjects because of their social, economic, and cultural similarity a…
Mathophobia’, pythagoras and roller‐skating
Post‐modern Sociology as a Democratic Educational Practice? Some suggestions
This paper explores the relationships between sociology, democracy and education. Its main argument is that post‐modernist theory (in spite of its own inherent inconsistencies) can be interpreted as a constructive challenge to the hierarchical presuppositions of academic sociology. It can thus help to provide a theoretical framework for formulating a new set of institutional arrangements for social inquiry, which would reconstitute sociology as a…
Interviewers, Interviewees and the Exercise of Power (Fictional‐critical Writing as a Method for Educational Research)
This paper reports an investigation into the process of interviewing applicants for places on an inservice course for teachers in an institution of higher education. A number of interviews were tape‐recorded and transcribed, as were some of the discussions between the interviewers concerning the applicants. Attention is drawn to the problems created by the power dimension of the interview process, which is often taken for granted by interviewers.…
Education or grading? Arguments for a non-subdivided honours degree
A fundamental difficulty prevents the incorporation of recent higher education (HE) initiatives (‘enterprise ̊s, ‘capability ̊s, etc.) into the basic HE course structure. The new initiatives are based on the explicit description of complex learning outcomes, and therefore require criterion-referenced, pass-fail assessment. The classified honours degree, the centre of the current HE course structure, is (in contrast) a norm-referenced format which…
Work‐based Learning and Quality Assurance in Higher Education
The debate concerning quality assurance in higher education is frequently conducted in terms originating outside the culture of academic institutions, such as ‘fitness for purpose’ and ‘meeting customer expectations’, which are often experienced as jarring with traditional conceptions of higher education. However, quality assurance issues surrounding the accreditation of work‐based learning within academic awards suggest how these terms may serve…
A bleak outlook: Academic staff perceptions of changes in core activities in Australian higher education, 1991-96
A survey of the perceptions of academic staff from three representative universities to recent higher education reform in Australia has revealed a high level of concern in many areas of academic responsibility and a dismal assessment of future prospects. This article reports responses to issues involving the mainstream activities of teaching and research as well as to the standard of undergraduate students and the extent of academic freedom. The …
The 'Academic' Qualities of Practice: What are the criteria for a practice-based PhD
This article explores the nature of the criteria which would be appropriate for evaluating a report on practice development submitted for a doctoral thesis-a significant issue in the various professional contexts where 'action research' or 'evaluation' is increasingly being adopted as a basis for PhD work. The practice-base of this article itself, and the urgency of the problems, are presented by means of reflections on the examination of particu…
Trouble at Mill: Quality of academic worklife issues within a comprehensive Australian university
This study describes the quality of academic worklife (QAWL) within a comprehensive university in Australia. Academics responded to the Academic Work Environment Survey, a diagnostic instrument designed to assess the relationships between and among academics' demographic characteristics (age, gender, position, discipline area), work environment perceptions (role, job, supervisor, structure, sector characteristics), and work attitudes (self-estran…
Academic manager or managed academic? Academic identity schisms in higher education
The relationship between values and academic identity has received scant attention in the higher education literature with some notable exceptions (Churchman, 2006; Harley, 2002; Henkel, 2005). This paper contends that the perceived need to align all academics around corporate values and goals has given rise to academic identity schisms in higher education. Central to the academic identity schism is the notion of person-organisation values fit an…
Academic identity tensions in the public university: Which Values Really Matter
Our study explores the relationship between values and academic identity in the public university. Framing the study is the proposition public universities face academic identity tensions arising from pressures to combine and sustain competing and contradictory managerial (economic) and academic (professional) values systems. Academic responses to an online survey indicated professors and lecturers shared a deep-seated antipathy to a market ethos…
Service-user research and Peter Kropotkin: A personal note of thanks to Professor Carol Munn-Giddings
When Carol first joined the group of colleagues interested in action research as a form of inquiry, I was slightly surprised by the fact that she emphasized the importance of involving ‘service-use
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