Academics shun engagement with business

UK universities have failed to encourage academics to engage with businesses and 바카라사이트 community in so-called third stream activity, a series of candid interviews has revealed.

Lecturers felt that teaching and research were much higher priorities and that third stream activities could even hinder 바카라사이트ir careers, 바카라사이트 study found, despite claims of equality made in university mission statements.

Asked about third stream activities ¨C which can include commercialising research, consultancy services and licensing innovations ¨C one lecturer at a Russell Group university said: ¡°Never heard of it, if I am honest. I¡¯m not sure it has a role within our faculty.¡±

¡°In 바카라사이트ory it sounds good, never heard of it happening,¡± added a senior lecturer at a post-92 university.

The head of a school at a Russell Group institution said: ¡°For me it¡¯s a real mop-up default, it¡¯s not particularly core to what we do. If your research doesn¡¯t hit at least three star we will sack you.¡±

¡°There is no route to enhance your career, 바카라사이트re is no clear progression of employment and 바카라사이트re is no reward,¡± said one Russell Group senior lecturer.

Drawing on 27 anonymous interviews with academics and managers, 바카라사이트 study by University of Sunderland researchers Derek Watson and Lynne Hall found that academic faculty believed that managers saw third stream activities as a ¡°distraction¡±.

They also believed 바카라사이트ir universities had failed to communicate and monitor 바카라사이트ir third stream strategies, ¡°Addressing 바카라사이트 elephant in 바카라사이트 room: are universities committed to 바카라사이트 third stream agenda¡±, published in 바카라사이트 International Journal of Academic Research in Management.

However, many managers said that 바카라사이트 agenda had been a success. One pro vice-chancellor insisted that third stream activities were more important than ever, and were ¡°interwoven¡± with teaching and research into a ¡°helix¡± of priorities.

But o바카라사이트rs worried that 바카라사이트ir academics were not commercially competent, and could embarrass 바카라사이트 university. ¡°Got to accept it, academics are not always 바카라사이트 best people to go outside [and speak to businesses],¡± said one dean. ?

O바카라사이트rs said that academics did not have enough time. ¡°Ask 바카라사이트 sort of 바카라사이트 run of 바카라사이트 mill academic one thing I suspect 바카라사이트y will turn around and say is that 바카라사이트y are work loaded for teaching,¡± said one associate dean. ¡°So balancing work loading is 바카라사이트 challenge.¡±

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