What is it about?
How do you position yourself as an academic in your discipline? This article might help you recognise and articulate some of the key dilemmas that face you and your colleagues through reading about some dilemmas faced by social work academics in contemporary Higher Education in Australia
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Why is it important?
Dynamics in Higher Education are changing rapidly around the world - bringing challenge and opportunity for academics. It is important to reflect on how this is influencing how we position ourselves and why - in order to prompt discussion and shared understandings amongst colleagues and management.
Perspectives
This article was six years in the writing - and is the result of close collaboration with a multidisciplinary research team. The process of writing it has certainly helped me reflect on how I choose to position myself as an academic - which has been most enriching and enlightening.
Dr Sophie J Goldingay
Deakin University
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This page is a summary of: Australian social work academics’ perceptions of their teaching roles within higher education, Higher Education Research & Development, December 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2016.1263933.
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