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Developing Academics : The essential higher education handbook
Academics work in a highly complex world where they must build integrative capabilities and outcomes as teachers, researchers and leaders.As they progress from novice to expert their evolving identities, methodologies and strategies need to be well-attuned to their own strengths and the sectoral expectations: a process that is greatly facilitated by the guidance of leaders and specialist developers.Developing Academics offers guidance to developers, senior leaders and academics on the principles and practices that support high-performing and adaptive academic communities.As the first work to explore the complex nature of academic capacity building, it offers comprehensive development principles, learning theories and specific strategies to support academic growth and development.Developing Academics explores academic capacity from a range of perspectives, including: What makes a high-performing, well-rounded academic? How can our academics be equipped to meet the demands of their current and future roles? What are the essential characteristics of an outstanding developer and development service? How can leaders support and guide high-performing academics who wish to excel?This book is divided into five parts.The first explores academic capacity building and the role developers, leaders and academics play.The second part offers comprehensive guidance to higher education developers, providing the theoretical grounding, methodologies and advanced professional techniques that support their service delivery.The third explores the academic development context, mapping the key capabilities that academics need to acquire as they progress from early career to senior roles across their various portfolios.The fourth explores strategies to evaluate and research the impact of higher education development on learners and their performance.In the final part, the design of higher education services and their interaction with university leaders is explored, illustrating the critical importance of building influence and impact across the university community.The positioning of higher education development as a discipline is also mapped. Developers, leaders and academics will find this handbook to be an essential resource for regular reference: full of useful insights, tips and strategies to help them increase their outcomes and impact.Readers are challenged to reflect on their own leadership and effectiveness throughout this work, as individuals and contributors to academic capacity building.
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Social media has become an inescapable part of academic life.It has the power to transform scholarly communication and offers new opportunities to publish and publicise your work, to network in your discipline and beyond and to engage the public.However, to do so successfully requires a careful understanding of best practice, the risks, rewards and what it can mean to put your professional identity online.Inside you'll find practical guidance and thoughtful insight on how to approach the opportunities and challenges that social media presents in ways that can be satisfying and sustainable as an academic.The guide has been updated throughout to reflect changes in social media and digital thinking since the last edition, including:The dark side of social media – from Trump to harassmentEmerging forms of multimedia engagement – and how to use to your advantage Auditing your online identity – the why and howTaking time out – how to do a social media sabbatical. Visit Mark's blog for more insights and discussion on social media academic practice.
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Academics’ International Teaching Journeys : Personal Narratives of Transitions in Higher Education
Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching.The team of international contributors provide an invaluable resource for other academics who may be exposed to similar situations and may find these narratives useful in negotiating their own conflicts and challenges that they may encounter in being an international academic.The narratives provide a fascinating reference point and a wide range of perspectives of teaching experiences from across the world, including Europe, Australia, North America and the Caribbean. The book offers a timely spotlight on contemporary issues of globalisation that many higher education institutions around the world may encounter.It contributes to the originality of constructing new knowledge in the field of transnational higher education - a modern phenomenon which will be increasingly prominent in the current and next generation in the globalised higher education contexts.
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Academics in Action! : A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service
The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it.Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody’s College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University, Academics in Action! describes a more integrated model wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and bring to bear findings from theory and research to generate solutions to community problems. Offering examples of community-engaged theory, scholarship, teaching, and action, Academics in Action! describes the nuanced structures that foster and support their development within a research university.Theory and action span multiple ecological levels from individuals and small groups to organizations and social structures.The communities of engagement range from local neighborhoods and schools to arenas of national policy and international development. Reflecting the unique perspectives of research faculty, practitioners, and graduate students, Academics in Action! documents a specific philosophy of education that fosters and supports engagement; the potentially transformative nature of academic work for students, faculty, and the broader society; and some of the implications and challenges of action-oriented efforts in light of dynamics such as income inequality, racism, and global capitalism.This edited volume chronicles teaching, research, and community action that influences both inside and outside the classroom as well as presents dimensions of a participatory model that set such efforts into action.
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Disability in Higher Education: Investigating Identity, Stigma and Disclosure Amongst Disabled Academics
Higher Education presents significant challenges for disabled faculty.This book highlights the structural barriers that create challenges for faculty and demonstrates ways in which we can improve on current practice.Staff face a competitive environment which is increasingly characterised by long working hours and the use of standardised metrics to monitor and evaluate performance.The author underlines this issue as well as covering a range of subjects including the stigma associated with disability, workplace discrimination, the decision to disclose a disability, and access to workplace accommodations.The book:•Amplifies the voices and experiences of disabled faculty•Examines the representation of disability and how this affects both disabled and non-disabled audiences•Provides a range of personal accounts of visible and invisible disabilities by those working in Higher Education•Argues for changes to current practice through advice, support and guidance for those impacted by disability•Features a chapter which addresses the structural and operational issues that systematically disadvantage disabled academicsThe book aims to inform and advise those interested in disability within Higher Education.It is of relevance, not only to those who identify as disabled, but also to senior management, policy makers and students of disability studies or education. “Gayle Brewer's Disability in Higher Education is a clear, concise, accessible yet detailed exploration of the realities of disability in the Academy.”Nancy Hansen, Professor, Director Disability Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada“I am proud to endorse Dr Brewer’s much-anticipated work on Disability in Higher Education.This book exposes the barriers, stigma and discrimination that disabled academics face daily, overtly and covertly, in a profession we are passionate about”. Dr Hamied Haroon, Chair, National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN)Gayle Brewer is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK.Her research interests focus on personality and romantic relationships, and she also conducts research addressing education and the student experience.
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Co-creating and Co-producing Research Evidence : A Guide for Practitioners and Academics in Health, Social Care and Education Settings
The importance of a strong evidence-base is widely recognised in contemporary health, social care and education practice, meaning that there is a real need for research which can be quickly and easily translated into real world situations. Research co-produced by practitioners and academics from early stages to end results can draw on each party’s knowledge and experience, in order to create high quality evidence that is relevant and appropriate to practice needs.This guide introduces the basics of co-producing research, looking at the evidence for co-produced research and outlining its theoretical underpinnings, as well as discussing barriers and facilitators to consider.It includes a practitioner perspective and an academic perspective on the benefits and challenges of co-produced research.The substantive chapters are each co-written by an academic and practitioner team and give examples of work carried out – and lessons learned – in public health, education and criminal justice settings.Key learning points are included throughout and drawn together to comprise a toolkit at the end of the book. This book teaches academics and practitioners more about how they can find practical evidence-based answers to complex questions.
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Write No Matter What – Advice for Academics
With growing academic responsibilities, family commitments, and inboxes, scholars are struggling to fulfill their writing goals.A finished book or even steady journal articles may seem like an impossible dream.But, as Joli Jensen proves, it really is possible to write happily and productively in academe.Jensen begins by busting the myth that universities are supportive writing environments.She points out that academia, an arena dedicated to scholarship, offers pressures that actually prevent scholarly writing.She shows how to acknowledge these less-than-ideal conditions, and how to keep these circumstances from draining writing time and energy.Jensen introduces tools and techniques that encourage frequent, low-stress writing.She points out common ways writers stall and offers workarounds that maintain productivity.Her focus is not on content, but on how to overcome whatever stands in the way of academic writing.Write No Matter What draws on popular and scholarly insights into the writing process and stems from Jensen's experience designing and directing a faculty writing program. With more than three decades as an academic writer, Jensen knows what really helps and hinders the scholarly writing process for scholars in the humanities, social sciences,and sciences.Cut down the academic sword of Damocles, Jensen advises.Learn how to write often and effectively, without pressure or shame.With her encouragement, writers of all levels will find ways to create the writing support they need and deserve.
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Conferencing and Presentation English for Young Academics
This book discusses and demonstrates the types of English discourse used at academic conferences and offers guidance to prospective conference participants from multiple perspectives.It is a combination of research taken from numerous academic conferences attended and observations made by the author, based on well-established research methods in applied linguistics, as well as a guidebook aimed at students, ESP teachers, and young academics and professionals wishing to upgrade their skills to participate fruitfully in, and contribute to, academic conferences.It offers academic novices and non-native speakers of English in particular much that is new and practical, far beyond the realm of simple ‘presentation tips’.It addresses various topics, such as chairing discussions, poster management, discussion sessions, the TED phenomenon, workshops, and the emerging field of English as a lingua franca.The style alternates between the accessible and practical, and the analysis of the linguistic categories underpinning the discourse: genre analysis, the nature of the specialist discourse community, features of academic spoken discourse, and the presentation as multimodal narrative are all explored.The book includes authentic samples of model speech discourse throughout, along with questions and exercises for deliberation or practice in each chapter.
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