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Becoming an academic : international perspectives / Lynne McAlpine and Gerlese S. Åkerlind.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Universities into the 21st centuryPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xiv, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230227910
  • 9780230227910
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.12023 23
LOC classification:
  • LB1778 .M265 2010
Contents:
Academic practice in a changing international landscape / Lynn McAlpine and Gerlese S. Åkerlind -- Expectations and experiences of aspiring and early career academics / Ann E. Austin -- Developing as a researcher post-PhD / Gerlese S. Åkerlind -- Employment patterns in and beyond one's discipline / David Mills -- Doctoral students and a future in academe? / Sandra Acker and Eve Haque -- Living and imaging academic identities / Lynn McAlpine, Cheryl Amundsen and Marian Jazvac-Martek -- Rethinking preparation for academic careers / Gerlese S. Åkerlind and Lynn McAlpine -- Commentaries from early career academics, developers and administrators.
Summary: This title draws on research in Australia, Canada, UK, and US into the experiences of doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and new academics. Each chapter develops research-informed implications for policy and practice to support developing academics.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Academic practice in a changing international landscape / Lynn McAlpine and Gerlese S. Åkerlind -- Expectations and experiences of aspiring and early career academics / Ann E. Austin -- Developing as a researcher post-PhD / Gerlese S. Åkerlind -- Employment patterns in and beyond one's discipline / David Mills -- Doctoral students and a future in academe? / Sandra Acker and Eve Haque -- Living and imaging academic identities / Lynn McAlpine, Cheryl Amundsen and Marian Jazvac-Martek -- Rethinking preparation for academic careers / Gerlese S. Åkerlind and Lynn McAlpine -- Commentaries from early career academics, developers and administrators.

This title draws on research in Australia, Canada, UK, and US into the experiences of doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and new academics. Each chapter develops research-informed implications for policy and practice to support developing academics.

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