Early career academics (ECAs) are a highly vulnerable group, typically facing job
insecurities, persistent pressure to publish, and conflicts in academic values and beliefs …

This chapter reviews the ways in which the doctoral supervisor role changed during the
pandemic. Previous research has emphasised the importance of the supervisor in doctoral …

This chapter reflectively explores the idea of doing art-based research (ABR) through poetic
methods for studying the experience of learning in higher education. Taking some literature …

The article interrogates the 'mobility imperative'and its impact on precarious academics.
Drawing on 40 biographic interviews with academics with experience of long-term precarity …

Purpose This study aims to understand how employability capitals' dynamics foster self-
perceived employability (SPE) among students and graduates, which is still being …

Persuasive arguments attribute academics' persistent struggles in making time for writing to
the increasing demands of a marketised sector on the academic role (Dickson-Swift et al.; …

Changes in the national, linguistic and ethnic profiles of students in UK higher education
mean that students' names are also likely to have become increasingly culturally diverse. In …

Carefully redesigned academic career frameworks benefit academic staff with a diverse
range of professional profiles, life circumstances, and scholarly interests. This chapter lays …

Seit der Jahrtausendwende wird die etablierte wissenschaftliche Praxis durch die Idee von
Open Science herausgefordert. Konkret geht es um fünf Formen einer veränderten …

The redesign of academic career frameworks aims to respond to the increased complexity of
academic roles. The nature of the academic role is discussed in this chapter, with reference …