Academic research and researchers /

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Imprint:Maidenhead, England ; New York : Open University Press/Society for Research into Higher Education, 2009.
Description:xviii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7908850
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Other authors / contributors:Brew, Angela, 1943-
Lucas, Lisa.
Society for Research into Higher Education.
ISBN:0335236073 (hbk.)
9780335236077 (hbk.)
0335236065 (pbk.)
9780335236060 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Introducing the scholarship of academic research
  • Part I. Research Policy and Funding
  • Chapter 2. Academic research within the wider domain of knowledge production
  • Chapter 3. Research and the new knowledge economy
  • Chapter 4. Quality assessment, funding and the research agenda: the adapted academic
  • Chapter 5. Creating collaboration: An exploration of multinational research partnerships
  • Chapter 6. The structure of academic research: what citation studies have to tell us about academic disciplines
  • Chapter 7. Research productivity: from iron cage to glass palace
  • Chapter 8. Developing a research culture
  • Part II. Researcher Experiences and Researcher Identities
  • Chapter 9. Understanding researcher decision-making
  • Chapter 10. Balancing between different audiences - experiences of Dutch academics
  • Chapter 11. "Productive" yet peripheral? Dilemmas for Indigenous researchers in higher education
  • Chapter 12. Research higher degree supervisors' understandings of research?
  • Chapter 13. Students' difficulties in the learning of research: beliefs and attitudes that hinder learning
  • Chapter 14. Interdisciplinary researcher identities: chameleons, butterflies or mongrels?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 15. The Scholarship of Research
  • Looking to the future