From early career researcher to research leader: survival of the fittest?

The higher education sector is a dynamic environment where universities compete on a global basis for resources, students, and high-quality staff. The impending retirement of the baby boomer generation will create increased competition for research leaders. One way to address this is to develop research leaders from existing researchers. However, little is known about what it takes to transition from a leading researcher to a research leader, so there is much to be learned from the experiences of those who have successfully navigated those transitions. To explore the transition from early career researcher to leading researcher to research leader, we undertook a mixed methods study involving 30 senior research leaders and administrators from a range of organisations across Australia. In this paper, we describe how the career paths of these research leaders developed in a highly competitive research environment and discuss how universities can attract, retain, develop, and promote their researchers.     

试论“个人的教育哲学”再分层及发展趋势

美国教育哲学家J.索尔蒂斯在《论教育哲学的前景》一文中提出了"个人的教育哲学"这一概念。"个人的教育哲学"又可以分为教育研究者、教育实践者、受教育者三个亚层。教育研究者个人教育哲学具有批判和构建功能,教育实践者个人教育哲学具有反思和完善功能,受教育者个人教育哲学具有辩护和教化功能。这三个层面相互融合形成专业的、系统的、理论和实践相结合的整体的教育哲学,勾勒出"个人的教育哲学"未来之发展趋势。     

Teaching Improvement Grants: Their potential to promote a scholarly approach to teaching

This paper documents how a teaching improvement fund in a research-intensive university exemplifies a scholarly approach to teaching. We describe how the organization of the fund provides professors with the structure to engage in scholarly activities. In other words, professors identify and make explicit their expertise related to teaching, the proposed activity becomes public and the value of the activity is assessed in a variety of ways. In addition, the analysis uses a framework drawn from the literature to assess the extent to which the funding process is a powerful faculty development activity. It thus adds to the very little that has been reported about the effectiveness of teaching grant programs.     

Physical Education “in All Sorts of Corners”

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to establish percentile norms and to compare skinfold and other anthropometric measurements of 647 Italian, Jewish, and Negro preadolescent boys from the Boston, Massachusetts area. Skinfolds were measured at five sites. Other measurements included height, weight, bi-iliac diameter, and selected girths.

Correlations were determined between skinfolds and selected body build components. Interskinfold r's ranged from moderate to high values. The largest percentile scores were found within the Jewish group. Analysis of variance was employed to compare the body fat, height, and weight of each group. Significant differences were found relative to certain skinfolds and weight between ethnic groups at the 1 percent level.     

中国博士后政策运作的问题与优化

作为一项公共政策,中国博士后政策在运作过程中存在政策主体精英主导、政策目标优先序模糊、政策工具选择及组合单一等问题。为了中国博士后政策的可持续发展,必须在政策主体由“单中心治理”走向“多中心共同治理”、确立政策目标优先序与加强政策监督、推进政策工具的协调化与多样化三方面进行政策优化。     

Making Sense of Researcher Services

ABSTRACT

Researcher services have proliferated in recent years and numerous free or fee-based sites now promise increased visibility and impact for authors or contributors of publications and other research products. Not all services have the same goals, however, and it can be difficult to know with which services researchers should engage. In this article we establish three categories (author/researcher identification, academic/professional networking, and reference/citation management) and examine nineteen services that fit into those categories.

Column Editor's Note This JLA column posits that academic libraries and their services are dominated by information technologies, and that the success of librarians and professional staff is contingent on their ability to thrive in this technology-rich environment. The column will appear in odd-numbered issues of the journal, and will delve into all aspects of library-related information technologies and knowledge management used to connect users to information resources, including data preparation, discovery, delivery and preservation. Prospective authors are invited to submit articles for this column to the editor at kenning.arlitsch@montana.edu     

Teaching lessons in exclusion: researchers’ assumptions and the ideology of normality

Filling in a research questionnaire means coming into contact with the researchers’ assumptions. In this sense filling in a questionnaire may be described as a learning situation. In this paper I carry out discourse analysis of selected questionnaire items from a number of studies, in order to highlight underlying values and assumptions, and their ideological import. These studies all attempted to investigate attitudes that Greek pupils show towards fellow-pupils defined as ‘different’. The survey questions are organized in terms of types of diversity, and the data is interpreted through the concept of exclusion and the ideology of normality. I argue that a number of items in the questionnaires embody assumptions likely to encourage attitudes and practices potentially leading to the marginalization of children defined as ‘different’. Finally I suggest alternative approaches to researching pupils’ attitudes and point out implications for research training.     

Existential approaches to action research

The existential approach to action research is derived from research that suggests that teachers' actions, intentions, and beliefs are manifestations of their ways of being teachers. A teacher's ‘way of being’ in an educational situation is defined and informed by what was and is for the teacher, and his or her intentions for what could be. It is essentially the way that that person is a teacher – where ‘teacher’ is one of the many ways that that person is and can be. The existential approach to action research extends the way of being perspective by examining three aspects of personhood – situation, existence precedes essence and freedom – and combines them with critical reflection and action. The result is that existential action research happens when people work together to research their own ways of being a teacher to increase their capacity to choose freely, and to act responsibly for themselves and those they care for     

Open Access Publishing in Business Research: The Authors’ Perspective

Open access (OA) publishing is now accepted as an integral part of the emerging trends within scholarly communication. Business librarians, like their subject specialist colleagues in other disciplines, are increasingly called upon to interpret scholarly communication trends to their faculty. This study surveys 1,293 business faculty from American schools of business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Issues explored include business faculty publishing practices within the discipline and how these affect academic advancement, obtaining articles for their own research, electronic publishing, self-archiving, and their perceptions about OA publishing generally.     

2014-2019我国高被引科学家群体特征计量分析

以我国入选2014—2019年高被引科学家名单科技人才为研究对象,通过个人履历信息、科学文献表征信息、公开网络信息等多源信息挖掘构建高被引科学家人才群体特征信息数据库,从学科分类、年龄、学历分布、人才荣誉、教育经历等方面对高被引科学家群体特征进行分析,并与美国等世界主要科技强国进行比较,其分析结果对于了解科学家成长规律、完善人才制度、合理配置科研资源、吸引全球科技精英人才以及集聚全球创新要素等提供决策支持与理论依据。