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Experiences of Academics who become HoDs in a UK University: Socialisation, Identity and Career Trajectory
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Jugglers, Copers and Strugglers: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting the Career Trajectories of Academics who become HoDs in a UK university
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Exploring The Role Of Associate Deans In UK Universities - end of project report
Aims and Objectives
This bid brings together colleagues from the Open University Business School and the University of Reading to explore the under-researched role of the Associate Dean in UK Universities. Specifically, it aims to explore how the role is defined, perceived and experienced across a range of post and pre 1992 Universities in order to highlight and disseminate models of good practice, identify challenges, and make recommendations for improved policy and practice
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Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities - End of Project Findings
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Inter-professional identities and cultures in Education, Health and Social Care: implications for higher education research and practice
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The role of the associate dean in UK universities: distributed leadership in action?
This paper reports on findings from a Leadership Foundation for Higher Education funded project exploring the role of associate deans in UK universities. While the number of associate deans leading cross-curricular and inter-disciplinary initiatives appears to be on the increase, there has been very little research focusing on the exact nature of the role and its importance, or otherwise, in the leadership and management of universities. Drawing on mixed-methods data from 15 semi-structured interviews and a follow-up online survey (n = 172), this paper reports on how the role is defined and positioned in relation to university organisational structures and identifies what the similarities and differences are between associate deans working at traditional and modern universities. As the first national survey of the role, it is argued that this paper makes a significant and original contribution to knowledge. By drawing on the concept of distributed leadership, the paper also offers new theoretical insights into how different types of universities in the UK are responding to external pressures as a consequence of the fast-changing and increasingly complex sector environment
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Exploring the role of Associate Dean in UK Universities - Initial Findings
Fundamental changes to the HE sector over recent years have forced universities to review their organisational management structures. Consequently, middle leadership roles such as the Associate Dean (AD) have gained in importance. Below the level of Dean, but above the level of department head, ADs are involved in largely strategic as opposed to operational duties. In supporting the Dean, they can have a critical effect on success and provide a link between the academic voice and the ever-changing demands being placed upon University faculties. However, it is a role that is not well understood with previous research tending to look at more clearly defined positions. The purpose of this paper is to report on initial data from an on-going Leadership Foundation funded project investigating the role of Associate Dean in UK universities. To answer the studyтАЩs research questions, an embedded, sequential mixed methods design has been adopted
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Researching from Within: Moral and Ethical Issues and Dilemmas
With the proliferation of taught research degrees over the last few years, the number of people undertaking research within their own institution is rising. This article examines the ethical and moral dilemmas confronting such тАШinsiderтАЩ researchers. Although all research has implications for those involved, in this paper we argue that undertaking interpretive insider research within your own institution or organisation makes these implications even more acute. By reviewing the literature in this area and drawing on the authorsтАЩ experiences of
undertaking two separate interpretive studies at institutions where they were members of staff, the article discusses key issues of gaining access, anonymity, researcher bias and power. Although undertaking insider research can be problematic, it is argued that researchers should be able to enter the setting with confidence, as long as the appropriate ethical boundaries are established at the outset and constantly re-visited throughout the process
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Focusing the kaleidoscope: Investigating the newly formed role of тАЬAcademic LeadтАЭ at a research-led University
This paper reports on a Leadership Foundation funded research project exploring the ways in which one UK institution has implemented a new тАШdistributedтАЩ leadership model. Crucially, the project examines the impact of the model on both those who are leaders and those being led. The report is organised over seven sections. First, we provide the rationale for the study. Second, we give contextual background to the model being examined. Third, we outline the research projectтАЩs key aims and research questions. Next, we outline the theoretical framework that guided the study. Then, we describe the studyтАЩs methods, present the findings and, in the final section, highlight a range of questions which have arisen from our research for the case study institution to consider
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