Problematizing the ‘Career Academic’ in UK construction and engineering education : does the system want what the system gets?
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of Scotland
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 12691794
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/03043797.2017.1306487
- Title of journal
- European Journal of Engineering Education
- Article number
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- First page
- 1477
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 6
- ISSN
- 0304-3797
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Over the past two decades, engineering faculties have become populated by academics with little or no prior industry-experience (career academics). The significance of this paper is the focus on UK Higher Education recruitment policy, which ostensibly creates a ‘barrier to entry’ with insistence on the PhD qualification. Whilst the focus of the paper was on current practice and the potential adverse impact on achieving a balanced staff portfolio of skills and experience. The finding of this paper informed an alternative perspective and the subsequent publication exploring opportunities to recouple engineering theory with practice in HEIs.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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