Square Pegs in Round Holes
The Relative Importance of Traditional and Nontraditional Scholarship in Canadian Universities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6219276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie-Rose Phaneuf (University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), Jonathan Lomas (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada), Chris Mccutcheon (0000-0002-1073-8506, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada,, corresponding author), John Church (0000-0002-7037-8194, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Douglas Wilson (0000-0002-7756-8660, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), Douglas R Wilson (University of Alberta) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 501-518 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1075-5470 • E-ISSN: 1552-8545 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1075547007302213 |
| OpenAlex | W2025989240 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
In May 2003 all university faculties of medicine, health sciences, nursing, business, and public administration in Canada were surveyed to document whether their promotion practices gave equal treatment to researchers with traditional disciplinary-based scholarly outputs versus those with nontraditional outputs flowing from an applied interest in interdisciplinary research, collaboration with nonacademics, and knowledge transfer. Forty-seven deans (response rate = 67 percent) and thirty-two promotion committee members (response rate = 51 percent) consistently rated research as more important than teaching and community service in promotion proceedings. Furthermore, in their considerations of research they accorded significantly more value in promotion to traditional than to nontraditional scholarly outputs. Among the deans, for example, the top ten ranked activities included seven traditional research outputs, two teaching-related outputs, and only one nontraditional research output. Scholars with nontraditional outputs were slightly less disadvantaged in health-related faculties compared to the nonhealth faculties. Despite broader acceptance of an evolving research landscape in Canadian universities, current reward structures may create barriers for academics interested in conducting nontraditional research characteristic of the emerging paradigm of applied scholarship
Disadvantaged · Discipline · Medical education · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Health and Medical Research Impacts · Health Sciences Research and Education · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |