Researching academic working life: outside-the-box perspectives

This event is part of the School of Education's . These seminars are free and open to the public.

Hosted by: Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET)

Speaker: Professor Linda Evans (Deputy Head of the School of Environment, Education & Development, University of Manchester)

In this intentionally provocative talk, Linda Evans will aim to widen your perspectives and encourage you to think outside the box.

Representing a radical departure from mainstream interpretations, she will examine three aspects of academic working life – professionalism, professional development and leadership – introducing her own original conceptualisation of each and briefly outlining where these conceptualisations sit within their respective scholarship fields. She will address contentious issues, such as whether leadership exists or is a myth that we have reified, and whether there is such a thing as ‘unprofessional’.

Linda will present conceptual models that she has formulated of academic professionalism and professional development (including academic development and researcher development). She will outline how these models may be applied as rigour-enhancing analytical frames for examining working life in education contexts.

Host or Publisher School of Education, University of Bristol