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The Research Game in Academic Life

Lucas, Lisa

2006

Overview

The book turns a spotlight on the importance of research in determining the reputation and success of universities and the academics who work within them. It provides an overview of the changing policies of funding and evaluating university research during the last twenty years and analyses how this has impacted on the status and hierarchical positioning of universities in the United Kingdom. Comparisons of research policies in other national systems of higher education are also made, with examples from Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Australia. Empirical data is drawn from qualitative case studies of two UK universities and focuses on the way in which the management and organisation of research within these institutions has responded to the demands of economic and accountability pressures and successive rounds of the Research Assessment Exercise. More particularly, the book reflects the human stories and accounts from the individuals who serve to maintain the important research and teaching work of these institutions. (HoF/text adopted).

• Publisher: Open Univ. Pr,Society for Research in Higher Education & Open University Press,McGraw-Hill Education,Open University Press
• Subject: Academic profession / Australien / Career development / College teachers / College teachers -- Rating of -- Great Britain / Evaluation / Graduate work / Great Britain / Hongkong / Learning / Learning and scholarship / Learning and scholarship -- Great Britain / Niederlande / Rating of / Research -- Great Britain / Research policy / Research trends / United Kingdom / Universities and colleges / Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Evaluation / Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- Graduate work / Vereinigtes Königreich
• ISBN: 0335211917, 9780335211913, 9780335211920, 0335211925