05741nam 2200697Ia 450 991095519220332120251117082425.00-335-23920-X1-283-33816-59786613338167(CKB)2550000000012885(SSID)ssj0000482537(PQKBManifestationID)11269901(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482537(PQKBWorkID)10528082(PQKB)10230723(SSID)ssj0000356217(PQKBManifestationID)12101371(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356217(PQKBWorkID)10349185(PQKB)10756298(MiAaPQ)EBC487781(Au-PeEL)EBL487781(CaPaEBR)ebr10394840(CaONFJC)MIL333816(OCoLC)649913164(BIP)32449450(BIP)27268999(EXLCZ)99255000000001288520090825d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAcademic research and researchers /edited by Angela Brew and Lisa Lucas1st ed.Maidenhead Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press2009xviii, 229 p. illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-335-23606-5 0-335-23607-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front cover -- Half title page -- SRHE and Open University Press Imprint -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword by Peter Scott -- Introduction: academic research and researchers. Angela Brew and Lisa Lucas -- Part I The politics and culture of university research -- 1 Academic un-freedom in the new knowledge economy. Margaret Thornton -- 2 Research quality assessment: objectives, approaches, responses and consequences. Ian McNay -- 3 The structure of academic research: what can citation studies tell us? Malcolm Tight -- 4 Research management and research cultures: power and productivity. Lisa Lucas -- 5 Creating collaboration: an exploration of multinational research partnerships. Betty Rambur -- 6 Producing researchers: the changing role of the doctorate. Alison Lee and David Boud -- Part II Researcher experiences and identities -- 7 Balancing different audiences: experiences of Dutch academics. Liudvika Leisˇyte˙, Jürgen Enders and Harry F. de Boer -- 8 Post-colonial perspectives on interdisciplinary researcher identities. Catherine Manathunga -- 9 'You do it from your core': priorities, perceptions and practices of research among Indigenous academics in Australian and New Zealand universities. Christine Asmar, Ocean Rı¯peka Mercier and Susan Page -- 10 Isn't research just research? What are candidates and supervisors thinking? Margaret Kiley -- 11 Learning to be a researcher: challenges for undergraduates. Mari Murtonen and Erno Lehtinen -- 12 Understanding academics' engagement with research. Angela Brew and David Boud -- 13 Conclusion: directions for future research. Angela Brew and Gerlese S. Åkerlind -- Index -- Back cover.University research is of central political, cultural and economic importance for nations and is currently the subject of considerable debate and discussion in universities worldwide. Research has become highly competitive though scarce resources. In recent years, research policies and strategies at different levels have called into question researcher autonomy, problematised academic freedom, created new disciplinary hierarchies, skewed publication rates and processes, created powerful ways to measure research outputs and demanded new working habits. This book is concerned with how individual researchers experience and respond to this scenario. It brings together research and scholarship examining the socio-political context of university research and explores how researchers' perceptions and identities are changed by political and cultural agendas for research. The book brings together the work of leading international scholars from different countries who have investigated theoretically and empirically the nature of research, research cultures and academic researcher identities. It brings together work that has hitherto only been reported in isolated and esoteric contexts internationally, thus consolidating the nature of research as an important field of study in its own right and providing important new understandings of how research is experienced in universities. A range of different theoretical positions taken by different authors is indicative of a lively and robust field of developing knowledge. Contributors: Dr Gerlese S. Akerlind, Dr Christine Asmar, Professor David Boud, Dr Harry de Boer, Dr Jurgen Enders, Dr Margaret Kiley, Dr Liudvika Leisyte, Professor Alison Lee, Dr Catherine Manathunga, Professor Emeritus Ian McNay, Dr Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Dr Mari Murtonen, Associate Professor Susan Page, Professor Betty Rambur, Professor Sir Peter Scott, Professor Margaret Thornton, Professor Malcolm TightResearch institutesResearchGovernment policyUniversities and collegesGraduate workResearch institutes.ResearchGovernment policy.Universities and collegesGraduate work.378.12Brew Angela1943-1864440Lucas Lisa1831808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910955192203321Academic research and researchers4471259UNINA