Researching academic working life: outside-the-box perspectives on academic professionalism, professional development & leadership
Professor Linda Evans (Deputy Head of the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester)
Hybrid / School of Education, 35 Berkeley Square
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Researching academic working life: outside-the-box perspectives on academic professionalism, professional development & leadership.
Tuesday 19th November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (GMT)
This event is a Bristol Conversations in Education (BCE) seminar, which is free to attend and open to the public. The event is also hosted by the Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET).
Venue – Hybrid / 35 Berkeley Square. Please find Zoom details at the end of your order confirmation email.
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About the event
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.