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Supporting Academics’ Full-time Transition from Professional Practice to University. A Qualitative Study
Full text linkHigher education (HE) has a long association with many professions and industries yet the demand for professional-facing HE provision has never been greater with public services, such as nursing and policing, now requiring mandatory HE qualifications (Bekhradnia and Beech, 2018) in parallel with a rapid growth in degree apprenticeships (Universities UK, 2019). Consequently, there has been an expanding need for experience-rich professionals to transition into full-time academic roles.
These practitioner academics (PAs) are not in themselves a homogenous group as they span a range of professions that may not have been traditionally associated with HE. This thesis adopts an ethnographic, narrative, interpretivist approach to capture the experiences of sixteen full-time neophyte and established PAs from multiple UK based higher education institutions (HEIs) from a diversity of professional backgrounds. Through conversational-expository methods – blog posts and comments, semi-structured interviews, and conversations on the model of the BBC’s Listening Project (BBC, 2017) – the narrative accounts draw upon ‘thinking tools’ (Bourdieu and Wacquant, 1989:50), predominantly of field, habitus, and symbolic capital, as a framework of inquiry. This thesis adds to the theoretical understanding of, and practical approaches to, the limited body of research on the experiences of this diverse workforce in crossing disciplines and boundaries and entering an academic role.
Findings revealed that PAs experience a distinctive transition of field, habitus, and symbolic capital. Yet it emerged that this unique experience of change is often overlooked by HEIs in their induction support. This thesis makes the argument that recognition of the rich diversity of backgrounds to an academic role is required to frame effective induction support and makes recommendations for implementation. Furthermore, this research demonstrates this sample of PAs’ previous involvement of working predominantly in public service or industry bringing a familiarity of working within a neo-liberal ideology operationalised through new public managerialism. PAs are uniquely situated to benefit HEIs as a resource to harmonise discourses and practices through determined government reform, such as the Higher Education and Research Act (Great Britain, 2017), blending state and market involvement in the sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Gender Empowerment through legislation: Extend the concept, or extend the characteristics of hate crime?
Full text linkA chapter describing an interactive activity in a handbook for creating a gender sensitive curriculum.
The chapter describes an activity that began with a short PowerPoint presentation (see resources in handbook) using current England and Wales Law Commission Proposals on Hate Crime. The aim was to consider that including ‘misogyny’ in ‘hate crime’ legislation, as many advocates argue, would be to extend the concept of this legislation since this is currently based upon an identifiable characteristic of the victim.
Misogyny is not a characteristic of the victim, but an internal ‘attribute’ of the perpetrator. However, including ‘gender’ would serve to deal with misogyny in the same way that we do not make ‘homophobia’ illegal, we protect the characteristics of sexual orientation. Gender would also provide wider protection, inclusivity and empowerment since it includes those who see themselves as ‘agendered’, and indeed all sexes and genders. However, this presentation and session focused upon gendered violence against females, mainly because of the interest in including ‘misogyny’ or gender in the legislation. Following the presentation, students have the opportunity to ask questions, clarify concepts, legislative issues, and recount their own experiences in a safe environment.
The activity then moved to group work to consider the most effective way(s) of providing protection against gendered violence, and indeed whether this is seen as empowerment. Students provide feed back to the group, with their suggestions on A3 sheets, displayed around the room
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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