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Research Administration: A Historical Retrospective of NCURA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Focused on Gender in Leadership
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This study is a reflective comparison of the data of membership and leadership across industries, with a qualitative retrospective and a discussion of diversity, equity, and inclusion within NCURA, the National Council of University Research Administrators, as that organization had a far higher percentage of female leadership over time.
What was the approach?
The paper focuses on data comparing the NCURA organization with other organizations over time in terms of female leadership, and considers the causes of why that difference exists.
What is the academic impact?
The National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) has been at the forefront of female leadership, with both the number and percentage of elected female leaders far outpacing comparable measures in other professions, since the 1970’s. What drove this consistent strength, what allowed female leaders to be elected, and what innovation in practice areas in research administration, drove improved diversity, equity, and inclusion inside the profession?
What is the wider impact?
In addition to female leadership within the organization, NCURA membership today is almost 81% female (as identified from NCURA membership profile data). Could this data point be the sole contributing factor for the massive increase in female leaders within NCURA? This study will consider female leadership both in the organization and the elected officers, specifically the presidency
Teaching Students How to Tame the Warrant with the Toulmin Model in EFL/ESL Settings
Get PDFThis teaching practice paper deals with some practical ideas of teaching the concept of ‘warrant’ in Toulmin’s mode of argumentation within EFL/ESL settings. While most students are familiar with making claims and providing evidence to support them, they may not understand the role of the warrant in connecting claims and reasons. Therefore, there is a strong need for teaching students how warrant plays a key role in argumentative writing. This teaching practice paper aims at bridging the gulf between some writing theories and useful examples to dissect the complexities of teaching warrant in writing classes
Do we need to use a Best Appropriate Technology standard for Technology Enhanced Learning in legal education?
Get PDFThis paper identifies that technology is often used in an educational context for non-pedagogical reasons. These reasons include the novelty factor, a drive for more and continual innovation, cost saving and the belief that technology is the solution to all the education world’s ills. The paper then identifies a new approach which could be used to model the Best Appropriate Technology for any given task, and outlines a worked example of the model. The conclusion is that this model, and an accompanying database, have the potential to be of great use across Legal Education in specific, as well as the HE Sector more widely
Mapping motivations: Self-determination theory and clinical tax education
Get PDFThe North West Tax Clinic is the first, student-led tax clinic in the UK. During its pilot between January and March 2020, the clinic experienced highs and lows in terms of the number of clients accessing the service. This paper, in co-authorship with one of the student volunteers, serves to present a co-reflection that maps out motivation onto the timeline of the clinic pilot. To do so, this paper draws on Self Determination Theory and student surveys to explore how the North West Tax Clinic encouraged autonomy, relatedness and competence. It is argued that where the events of the pilot failed to encourage these three, key psychological needs, both students and teachers were less motivated and engaged with the project
The Benefits and Challenges of the Policy Clinic Model of Clinical Legal Education
Get PDFThis article examines the benefits and challenges of the policy clinic model of clinical legal education and enhances our understanding of the value of this teaching model. In policy clinics, students undertake policy work, conducting a research project for a client with a specific research need. This article presents the findings of the first detailed empirical study into policy clinics, capturing the perceptions of those supervising and undertaking policy work in the policy clinic at [anonymised] Law School. We found that policy work provided clear pedagogical benefits to students as they saw development of both their skills and their employability. Notably, there was a transformative shift for many students from an initial individualistic motivation for what policy work would bring to them personally, to an acknowledgment of the impact of their work on the wider community. Supervisors also benefited from policy work because it enhanced their skills and facilitated their research interests. However, there were challenges with this teaching model, including workload issues, fitting research projects into the academic year and ensuring true student-supervisor collaboration existed within a research project. The study will be of interest to academics undertaking, or intending to undertake, policy work both in Europe and beyond
Editorial: Supporting the Development of Practice-based Learning: The Role of a National Educators Association
Get PDFResearch Management as a Sustainable Career Path: Perspectives of Practising Professionals from Around the World
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Research management/adminstration is not recognized as a profession in many countries. In spite of this, many research managers and administrators (RMAs) choose this career and are willing to stay in it for a long term. This paper uses global survey data to highlight factors that RMAs use to make these long-term decisions.
What was the approach?
Three global surveys (Research Administrators As A Profession, RAAAP) were analysed for the question – Why have you stayed in the profession? Data for responses to various choices within this primary question such as if they enjoyed this career, if they liked spending time with researchers and academics, if it was due to job security or good salary and whether it was the work itself, were analysed. Additionally, a few India-based RMAs were interviewed regarding their perspectives of this career through a qualitative research approach.
What is the academic impact?
Findings from this paper will help research policy makers establish a professional path for this workforce at a national level. Additionally, institutional leaders can formulate ways to retain and strengthen this workforce in their research organizations.
What is the wider impact?
The survey results provide motivation and encouragement to new RMAs and may help those deciding to take research management/administration as a career
Deconstructing Myths about Interdisciplinarity: Is now the time to rethink interdisciplinarity in legal education?
Get PDFThe article wishes to present an argument about how interdisciplinary modules can enhance legal education. This argument is developed against the backdrop of major disruption in higher education and transformation in legal education. Following a definition of interdisciplinarity, the benefits of this method are analysed and demonstrated through practical examples from an interdisciplinary pilot module based in a UK Law programme. Some selected issues from Equality law will be used to demonstrate how an interdisciplinary approach has enabled students to look more critically at what the law chooses to protect and the ways in which laws are drafted and applied. Such enhanced learning outcomes from interdisciplinary legal education can support the re-calibration of legal education and complement the traditional doctrinal approach to legal education. It is argued that experiences and good practice from comparative law can provide inspiration for the strengthening of interdisciplinary legal education