Growing and developing as a university researcher
dc.contributor.author | Akerlind, Gerlese L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-07T22:14:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-07T07:30:27Z | |
dc.description.abstract | While there is a substantial body of literature on academics' development as teachers, investigation of their development as researchers post-PhD is rare. This study undertook an investigation of academics' ways of understanding their own growth and development as a university researcher. Four qualitatively different ways of understanding research development emerged: (1) Becoming confident as a researcher; (2) Becoming recognised as a researcher; (3) Becoming more productive as a researcher; and (4) Becoming more sophisticated as a researcher. The first category of development was seen as most relevant to the early stages of an academic career, when doing a PhD or during one's first academic appointment, but may also re-occur at later stages of a career during changes in research direction, etc. The last three categories are seen as relevant to all career stages, including more advanced stages as well as the early stages of a research career. Comparisons between academics' ways of understanding their growth and development as a university researcher and as a university teacher are also presented. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0018-1560 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17467 | |
dc.publisher | Springer | |
dc.source | Higher Education | |
dc.subject | Keywords: Academic development; Conceptions; Phenomenography; Research development; Ways of understanding | |
dc.title | Growing and developing as a university researcher | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 254 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 241 | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Akerlind, Gerlese L, Administrative Division, ANU | |
local.contributor.authoremail | u8101166@anu.edu.au | |
local.contributor.authoruid | Akerlind, Gerlese L, u8101166 | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.absfor | 130103 - Higher Education | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u8101166xPUB1 | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 55 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10734-007-9052-x | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-38849199148 | |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u8101166 | |
local.type.status | Published Version |
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