Overview
- Adds the early career academic voice to The Changing Academy series
- Provides a research-based overview of the challenges and prospects facing early career academics, particularly in New Zealand universities
- Considers the experiences and perceptions of different groups of early career academics (Maori and women, in particular)
- Provides links to online, adaptable resources for individual academics, academic leaders, and universities to better support early career academics
Part of the book series: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective (CHAC, volume 20)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- The changing academic profession in New Zealand
- Research on early career academics
- The relationship of this research to the CAP project
- Analysis of work-life balance realities and challenges
- Linda Hagedorn’s (2000) conceptual model
- The experiences of migrant academics in New Zealand
- The experiences of Maori academics in New Zealand
About this book
What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century? What challenges and prospects are new academics facing and how are they dealing with these? This book provides answers to these questions through an investigation of the experiences of early career academics in New Zealand universities. Filling a gap in the international literature on the academic profession by providing a comprehensive overview of the experiences of New Zealand academics, the book includes research findings from a national survey covering all eight New Zealand universities. This research is also compared with various findings from the 2007 Changing Academic Profession survey in 19 other countries. The book encourages readers to think about the early career academic experience in New Zealand in relation to their own experiences of the academic profession internationally.
Key areas of focus in the nine chapters include: the teaching, research, and service preferences and activitiesof early career academics; work-life balance; satisfaction; the experiences of Māori academics; and professional development and support for all early career academics. Underpinning the book is the issue of the socialisation of early career academics into the academic profession in the twenty first century, and how structure and agency interact to affect that socialisation. Suggestions are made, and links to freely available online resources are provided, for improving socialisation at the individual, departmental, institutional, and national levels.Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Early Career Academics in New Zealand: Challenges and Prospects in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Kathryn A. Sutherland
Series Title: The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61830-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61829-6Published: 30 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87173-8Published: 07 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61830-2Published: 08 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2214-5346
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 201
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, International and Comparative Education