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Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making

Celia Whitchurch, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK, William Locke, University of Melbourne, Australia & Giulio Marini, Social Science Research Institute at University College London, UK This book uses the concept of formal and informal institutional economies as a metaphorical frame for ways in which contemporary academic staff in the UK and other English-speaking countries approach their roles and careers� The authors also draw on empirical research to explore how individuals deal with misalignments and disjunctures that arise between formal and informal economies, including those associated with disciplinary and departmental affiliations, job profiles, progression criteria, and work allocation models� They go on to consider a shift towards bespoke and openended approaches to roles and careers, and ways that academic and associated staff express themselves as professionals�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350282537 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9781350282551 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350282544 • £81�00 / $112�65 Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Changing Higher Education in India

Edited by Saumen Chattopadhyay, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK & N. V. Varghese, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India This book brings together experts and emerging researchers from India and the UK to discuss the challenges the higher education system in India faces and to explore positive solutions. The team shine the spotlight on financing and funding, governance and regulation, sector organisation and institutional classification, equity and social inclusion, the large and poorly regulated private sector, Union-State relations in higher education, student political activism, and internationalisation�

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781350193079 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350192379 ePub 9781350192393 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350192386 • £81�00 / $112�65 Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Narratives of Academics’ Personal Journeys in Contested Spaces

Leadership Identity in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Edited by Namrata Rao, Liverpool Hope University, UK, Anesa Hosein, University of Surrey, UK & Ian M. Kinchin, University of Surrey, UK This collection provides theoretically-informed personal narratives of 11 emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the USA� The academics’ narratives focus on how the individuals have navigated to leadership roles in learning and teaching whilst negotiating contested identities, such as gender and marginalised spaces�

Universities and Regions

The Impact of Locality and Region on University Governance and Strategies

Michael Shattock, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK & Aniko Horvath, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands This book explores the impact of regions on universities and shows how the diversity of the higher education landscape is critically affected by the geophysical character of regions and their highly differentiated economies and cultures� The authors examine these relationships through 12 widely representative institutional case studies, a review of higher and further education relationships and a comparative account of regional governance policies in some continental European countries� They discuss the linkage of a move to a tertiary education approach in England with the need for decentralisation to regions in the context of a 'levelling up' agenda�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350337589 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9781350337602 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350337596 • £81�00 / $112�65 Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research • Bloomsbury Academic

Collaboration in Higher Education

Edited by Sandra Abegglen, University of Calgary, Canada, Tom Burns & Sandra Sinfield, London Metropolitan University, UK This book focuses on the opportunities and challenges created by engaging in collaboration and partnership in higher education� As higher education institutions become ever more competitive to sustain their place in a global, neoliberal education market, students and staff are confronted with alienating practices� The editors synthesise theoretical perspectives and current practices to present case study examples that advocate for a more inclusive, cooperative, collaborative, compassionate and empowering education�

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350334052 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9781350334076 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350334069 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Academic

Pursuing Teaching Excellence in Higher Education

Towards an Inclusive Perspective

Margaret Wood, York St John University, UK & Feng Su, Liverpool Hope University, UK This book explores the concept of teaching excellence and its framing in neoliberal ideological assumptions of performativity, new public management and competition� It argues for more critical, nuanced and sustainable understandings of how teaching excellence is understood and enacted� Wood and Su argue that greater emphasis should be given to the plurality of stakeholders’ perspectives in higher education and that the dialogic space needs to become a multiple perspective debate on the matter of teaching excellence� They also argue for the debate to be reconceptualised in more democratic terms as a space for learning together across multiple stakeholder perspectives�

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350196957 • £90�00 / $120�00 ePub 9781350196971 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350196964 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Academic UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781350216693 • £28�99 / $39�95 Previously published in HB 9781350055285 ePub 9781350055308 • £81�00 / $112�65 ePdf 9781350055292 • £81�00 / $112�65 Bloomsbury Academic