Dr Celia Whitchurch Institute of Education, University of London, UK Professor George Gordon

Changing Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce Dr Celia Whitchurch Institute of Education, University of London, UK Professor George Gordon University of Strathclyde, UK

The Study • Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce (Routledge, November/December 2009) • Twelve authors, six countries: • UK, France, USA, Australia, South Africa, Japan

Themes • Global contexts (Gordon) • Academic identities (Henkel; McInnis) • A ‘holistic’ workforce (Rhoades) • Professional identities (Whitchurch; Law) • Managing academic and professional staff (Gappa; Usherwood; Smit/Nyamapfene) • Career pathways (Strike; Oba) • Recruitment (Musselin) • Professional development (Middlehurst)

Issues • Diversifying disciplinary base • Casualisation/fractionalisation • Movements in and out of HE • Increased specialisation alongside emergence of ‘blended’ roles • Distributed institutional management

Challenges • Changing aspirations and expectations • New forms of recognition and reward • Diffusion of management and leadership responsibilities • Institutional adaptation • Global downturn

Variables • National contexts • Institutional environments • Legal/regulatory frameworks • Level of ‘professionalisation’ • Interface between academic and professional spheres of activity

Tensions • Disciplinary, professional, institutional allegiances • Lateral networks vs formal structures • Direction/control vs facilitation/negotiation • Accommodation of new spaces/identities • Legitimacy accorded to these

‘Future Worlds’(From ‘Managing Tomorrow’s People: The Future of Work to 2020’ (PWC, 2007))

Issues for the future • Less commonality around academic or professional identities • Less clarity about boundaries • Increasing influence of external collaborations and partnerships • Creativity around rewards and incentives • The employment ‘package’

Dr Celia Whitchurch Institute of Education, University of London, UK Professor George Gordon

Dr Celia Whitchurch Institute of Education, University of London, UK Professor George Gordon

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Katariina Salmela-Aro Professor, University of Jyv skyl , Finland Visiting Professor University of London, UK

Maureen Ellis PhD student, Institute of Education, University of London

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Paul Dowling Institute of Education University of London

Lisha Liu Institute of Education, University of London

George Gordon

Karen Evans and Natasha Kersh, Institute of Education,University of London, UK Leonardo da Vinci

Prof. Iram Siraj -Blatchford Institute of Education, University of London

Richard Andrews Institute of Education University of London

Dr Celia Whitchurch Senior Lecturer in Higher Education

Andrew Pollard Institute of Education, University of London, UK

Dr Celia Whitchurch Lecturer in Higher Education Institute of Education, University of London

The Institute of Education, University of London An introduction

Gordon Stobart Emeritus Professor of Education Institute of Education, University of London

Professor Neil Humphrey School of Education, University of Manchester, UK

Dave Hill Professor of Education Policy, University of Northampton, UK

Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford University of London Institute of Education

Tim Brosnan Institute of Education University of London

Dylan Wiliam Deputy Director Institute of Education, University of London

Karen Evans and Natasha Kersh, Institute of Education,University of London, UK Leonardo da Vinci