Modern Day Challenges in Academia

Edited by Marilena Antoniadou and Mark Crowder, Faculty of Business and Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Contents:

Introduction xvii
PART I ENTERING ACADEMIA
1 Living the dream … but for how long? Being an early-career
academic in the context of ‘excellence’ 2
Marilena Antoniadou
2 Career transitions from industry to academia 16
Mark Crowder and Maria Mouratidou
3 Career issues, paths and motivations: career stories of
four UK academics 31
Maria Mouratidou
4 Three scholars at work: making sense of the twenty-first
century academy 44
Peter John Sandiford, Ankit Agarwal and Sam Wells

PART II DURING ACADEMIA
5 Get me a job! Thinking about student employability 67
Dane Anderton and Sue Marriott
6 From euphoria to letting go: experiences of cross-cultural
adaptation of international academics in UK higher
education 82
Marilena Antoniadou
7 Exploring perceptions of academic management roles in the
undergraduate student experience 99
Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder and Jim Stewart
8 External examiners: what do they do and how does
someone become one? 120
Mark Crowder
9 ‘Signature of mediocrity’? Variability and uncertainty
associated with PhD assessment processes in the UK 135
Christopher J. Rees and Kate E. Rowlands
10 Providing research supervision: a personal polemic 152
Jim Stewart
11 The effects of control on academic engagement, work–life
balance and work–life conflict: is how we manage and
what we measure actually contributing to what we strive
to pursue? 168
Caryn Cook, Joanna Jones and Monica Gibson-Sweet
12 The balance between teaching and research: challenges
and contradictions in the context of the modern university 183
Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen
13 Caring and coping: an interpretative phenomenological
analysis of lecturers’ emotional labour in the context of
higher education commercialisation and the consequences
for staff and student wellbeing 196
Sarah-Jane Lennie
14 The unseen pressures of academia 211
Janet Haddock-Fraser
15 Apps and smartphone technology acceptance: lecturers’
likelihood of using interactive polling systems in the
lecture theatre 226
Dane Anderton
16 Being an academic in an era of rapid technological change
and distance learning education: views of faculty members
of a business school 238
Harry Kogetsidis, Despo Ktoridou, Epaminondas Epaminonda
and Achilleas Karayiannis
17 Academic leadership: challenges and opportunities for
leaders and leadership development in higher education 252
Stephanie K. Rehbock
18 Institutional research: unintended consequences in higher
education 265
Bernard Longden

PART III LEAVING ACADEMIA
19 Academics moving from higher education institutions:
careers of PhDs after graduation 286
Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen
20 Retirement: a valediction to work? 300
Peter Cureton
21 Working past retirement age: from the point of view of a
business and management academic 312
Tony Proctor
22 But I don’t like golf: emeritus roles 324
William Chambers
Conclusion: time for a change 349

Index 353