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The contemporary academic: orientation towards research work and researcher identity of higher education lecturers in the health professions

Boyd, Pete; Smith, Caroline (2016)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge) for Society for Research into Higher Education
Languages: English
Types: Article
Subjects: Z489, Z721
Identifiers:doi:10.1080/03075079.2014.943657
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.
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