The contemporary academic

Orientation Towards Research Work and Researcher Identity of Higher Education Lecturers in the Health Professions

Bibliographic Data

ID4098327
AuthorsPete Boyd (0000-0002-2234-3595, University of Cumbria, corresponding author), Caroline Smith (0000-0002-8404-3467, University of Cumbria)
Year2016
Volume41
Issue4
Pages678-695
Publication date2016-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03075079.2014.943657
OpenAlexW2084874817
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited33

Internationally, the increasing emphasis in universities on the quality of teaching, on student employability and on a corporate approach to entrepreneurial income generation has created a tension around the primacy afforded to published research outputs as a focus for academic work and status. In this study, a framework for academic socialisation is developed and used to understand how lecturers in health professional fields attempt to ‘juggle’ four areas of work – teaching, leadership, knowledge exchange and research activity. Studying academics in professional fields, with a well-developed focus on employability and strong partnerships with employers, provides useful insight into contemporary academic work and identity. A significant proportion of lecturers in health professional fields, even of those working in research-intensive universities, appear to ‘subvert’ the paradigmatic primacy afforded across the higher education sector to research outputs and identity as a researcher

Employability · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Higher Education and Employability · Innovations in Medical Education

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