VIRTUAL EVENT: Whither the academic profession?
This webinar will review pointers for the future of the academic profession, highlighting a collective momentum towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers.
VIRTUAL EVENT: Whither the academic profession?
26 Apr 2021, 14:00 – 15:00
The session will provide an update on the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) research project 3.2, 'The future higher education workforce in locally and globally engaged higher education institutions'. It will draw on material from the monograph 'Academic Staff Re-forming for a Changing World' that is in preparation.
The speakers will consider the relationship of individuals to disciplines and to professional practice associated with disciplines. They will review the different degrees of embeddedness that individuals have within the profession, and the direction of travel for the profession as a whole.
They suggest that in future this is likely to be influenced by greater interdisciplinary, a diversification and reshaping of disciplines, and an expanding hinterland of individuals. This will open up academic activity to wider purposes at the same time as expanding professional selfhood.
Drawing on two phases of interviews in eight UK higher education institutions between 2018 and 2020, the drift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers will be illustrated by a model demonstrating shifts in the professional formation of academic staff.
Speakers
- Celia Whitchurch, UCL Institute of Education
- Professor William Locke, University of Melbourne
- Dr Giulio Marini, UCL Institute of Education
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Image: Alejandro Walter Salinas Lopez for UCL Digital Media
Further information
Ticketing
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Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes