Identifying trades tutors' and institutions' perceptions of tutors' roles within the ITP sector : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Adult Education at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Since 1984 tertiary education institutions have been subject to progressive and far-reaching change. Much of this change has been shaped by neo-liberalist agendas which espouse accountability, efficiency, responsiveness, professionalism and managerialism. This thesis looks at how these themes have shaped or influenced managerial and tutorial perceptions of tutors' operational roles, responsibilities and performance within a selection of contemporary Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITP) teaching environments. Analysis of the research identifies that scant or poorly prepared institutional documentation around tutorial roles and responsibilities has contributed to uncertainty or confusion, and consequently to individuals adapting their teaching roles to suit themselves. It has also been identified that managers appointed to the pivotal role of Head of School are stretched in their ability to cope with the demands that are placed on them. This thesis suggests that the increasing responsibilities they carry for managing tutorial staff have contributed to a breakdown in workload planning and performance management processes. Managers acknowledge that further work needs to be done in defining tutors' roles, responsibilities and performance. But such work presupposes the question: how do managers and tutors perceive tutorial roles in today's ITP teaching environment? Research on this key question and associated issues provides the basis for this thesis

From "being there" to "being ... where?": relocating ethnography

Purpose: Expands recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography through engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer’s situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site itself. Approach: Examines concerns with the traditional notion of ‘being there’ as it applies to ethnography in contemporary organization studies and, through a confessional account exploring my own experiences as a PhD student conducting ethnography, considers ‘being ... where’ using the analytic framework of situated identity work. Findings: Identifies both opportunities and challenges for organizational ethnographers facing the question of ‘being ... where?’ through highlighting the situated nature of researchers’ identity work in, across and between different (material and virtual) research spaces. Practical implications: Provides researchers with prompts to examine their own situated identity work, which may prove particularly useful for novice researchers and their supervisors, while also identifying the potential for incorporating these ideas within organizational ethnography more broadly. Value: Offers situated identity work as a means to provide renewed analytic vigour to the confessional genre whilst highlighting new opportunities for reflexive and critical ethnographic research practice

The linear stability of double-diffusive miscible rectilinear displacements in a Hele-Shaw cell

We investigate the viscous instability of a miscible displacement process in a recti-linear geometry, when the viscosity contrast is controlled by two quantities whichdiuse at dierent rates. The analysis is applicable to displacement in a porousmedium with two dissolved species, or to displacement in a Hele-Shaw cell with twodissolved species or with one dissolved species and a thermal contrast. We carry outasymptotic analyses of the linear stability behaviour in two regimes: that of smallwavenumbers at intermediate times, and that of large times.An interesting feature of the large-time results is the existence of regimes in whichthe favoured wavenumber scales with t−1/4, as opposed to the t−3/8 scaling foundin other regimes including that of single-species ngering. We also show that theregion of parameter space in which the displacement is unstable grows with time,and that although overdamped growing perturbations are possible, these are neverthe fastest-growing perturbations so are unlikely to be observed. We also interpretour results physically in terms of the stabilising and destabilising mechanisms actingon an incipient nger

Review of Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War by Derek Grout

Review of Thunder in the Skies: A Canadian Gunner in the Great War by Derek Grout

The impact of information skills training on student learning: do we make a difference?

Report of a CELT project on changing practice through innovation and researc

On “growing up” with QROM: invited contribution for the anniversary issue

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the experience of “growing up” with QROM in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the journal. Design/methodology/approach – Personal reflection. Findings – Reading, writing and reviewing for QROM has given the inspiration and confidence to develop the author’s own qualitative research practice, but the author hopes it does not stop there. The author looks forward to the next ten years. Originality/value – To revisit the editors’ original question and ask: why do the author still need QROM