Modern Day Challenges in Academia

Edited by Marilena Antoniadou, Professor of Management, Department of Management, The American College of Greece, Greece and Mark Crowder, Professor of Management, Department of Strategy, Enterprise and Sustainability, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

'This is a timely and welcome book, providing both fascinating insights into the changing role of academics and an articulate discussion of the impact of these changes on universities around the world. By highlighting the various challenges that academics navigate over the course of their careers, from managing workloads to engaging in emotional labour through to adopting new technologies, it provides a critical and valuable basis for future debates over the evolving role of academics and indeed their universities.'--Anna Sutton, University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Contents:Introduction xviiPART I ENTERING ACADEMIA1 Living the dream … but for how long? Being an early-careeracademic in the context of ‘excellence’ 2Marilena Antoniadou2 Career transitions from industry to academia 16Mark Crowder and Maria Mouratidou3 Career issues, paths and motivations: career stories offour UK academics 31Maria Mouratidou4 Three scholars at work: making sense of the twenty-firstcentury academy 44Peter John Sandiford, Ankit Agarwal and Sam WellsPART II DURING ACADEMIA5 Get me a job! Thinking about student employability 67Dane Anderton and Sue Marriott6 From euphoria to letting go: experiences of cross-culturaladaptation of international academics in UK highereducation 82Marilena Antoniadou7 Exploring perceptions of academic management roles in theundergraduate student experience 99Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder and Jim Stewart8 External examiners: what do they do and how doessomeone become one? 120Mark Crowder9 ‘Signature of mediocrity’? Variability and uncertaintyassociated with PhD assessment processes in the UK 135Christopher J. Rees and Kate E. Rowlands10 Providing research supervision: a personal polemic 152Jim Stewart11 The effects of control on academic engagement, work–lifebalance and work–life conflict: is how we manage andwhat we measure actually contributing to what we striveto pursue? 168Caryn Cook, Joanna Jones and Monica Gibson-Sweet12 The balance between teaching and research: challengesand contradictions in the context of the modern university 183Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen13 Caring and coping: an interpretative phenomenologicalanalysis of lecturers’ emotional labour in the context ofhigher education commercialisation and the consequencesfor staff and student wellbeing 196Sarah-Jane Lennie14 The unseen pressures of academia 211Janet Haddock-Fraser15 Apps and smartphone technology acceptance: lecturers’likelihood of using interactive polling systems in thelecture theatre 226Dane Anderton16 Being an academic in an era of rapid technological changeand distance learning education: views of faculty membersof a business school 238Harry Kogetsidis, Despo Ktoridou, Epaminondas Epaminondaand Achilleas Karayiannis17 Academic leadership: challenges and opportunities forleaders and leadership development in higher education 252Stephanie K. Rehbock18 Institutional research: unintended consequences in highereducation 265Bernard LongdenPART III LEAVING ACADEMIA19 Academics moving from higher education institutions:careers of PhDs after graduation 286Annette Rasmussen and Karen E. Andreasen20 Retirement: a valediction to work? 300Peter Cureton21 Working past retirement age: from the point of view of abusiness and management academic 312Tony Proctor22 But I don’t like golf: emeritus roles 324William ChambersConclusion: time for a change 349Index 353