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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author DEEM, Rosemary
Title Changing research perspectives on management of higher education : can research permeate the activities of manager-academics?
Publication year 2006
Source/Footnote In: Higher education quarterly. - 60 (2006) 3, S. 203 - 228
Inventory number 20828
Keywords Ausland : Großbritannien : Forschung, Hochschullehrer ; Ausland : Großbritannien : einzelne Hochschulen ; Hochschule : Verwaltung allgemein
Abstract The paper considers whether, and if so how, research evidence can permeate the world of higher education (HE) management in publicly funded institutions. The paper explores the author's experience of two recent research projects (1998?2000 and 2004) on aspects of managing UK HE institutions and issues arising from the preparation of the HE element of a third study of leadership and public service change agendas in education and health during 2004. Despite the topicality in education and other public services of debates about evidence-based practice, there is little indication that this debate has permeated HE management qua management. The paper utilises Bourdieu's work on academics and social and cultural capital to explore why manager-academics may resist taking the findings of research seriously in relation to their own work. It is suggested that, where there is reluctance to learn from research, this may reflect the changing nature of HE, the status of HE research as an academic field and form of academic capital and the relative paucity until recently of training in management for most UK manager-academics. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)