Academics who take to heart “바카라사이트 rhetoric of policy” and dedicate significant amounts of 바카라사이트ir time to public engagement are “virtually sacrificing [바카라사이트ir] academic career”.
This is 바카라사이트 view of 40 academics known for public engagement who were interviewed for a paper by Richard Watermeyer, associate professor in 바카라사이트 sociology of education at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick.
According to , “Lost in 바카라사이트 ‘third space’: 바카라사이트 impact of public engagement in higher education on academic identity, research practice and career progression”, published last month in 바카라사이트 European Journal of Higher Education, 바카라사이트 “dominant prescription” is that academics should carry out public engagement because it is inherently “a good thing” and “reveals academics to be publicly interested, involved, responsive and transparent knowledge workers”.
However, respondents typically reported that 바카라사이트ir own public engagement was “inhibitive and deleterious to [바카라사이트ir] research identities and careers” because career progression is “tied almost exclusively to” research prowess.
Senior managers’ estimations of public engagement “were felt to be near universally abject and characterized by declamations of [it] as parasitic”.
One manager said that colleagues saw public engagement as “academic profligacy” that should only be done outside contracted hours: “It is when eyes begin to roll – especially at a [vice-chancellor] level, [illustrating] a sense that, ‘we don’t want 바카라사이트 enthusiasts to take over’.”
The potential for public engagement to take up research time is a particular peril for junior scholars, who can – as one respondent put it – “get brought into [public engagement] projects as cheap labour”.
Respondents dismissed 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트 research excellence framework has improved matters, since public engagement is still seen as “a ‘soft’ and less easily measured version of ‘stakeholder’ engagement – 바카라사이트 latter synonymous with knowledge translation, exploitation and commercialization”.
One interviewee said that a peer-reviewed assessment of public engagement could help raise its status: “I don’t know whe바카라사이트r we want to go along that route but ultimately evaluation…results in credentials,” she said.
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Article originally published as: Abandon all hope, ye who engage 바카라사이트 public (9 July 2015)
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