RED Research
To give our educational and professional development work a sound theoretical and pedagogical platform, staff of the Researcher Education & Development (RED) unit research international best practice in their fields of expertise, and publish in a broad range of areas concerned with (higher) education, language and culture.
Below find links to this research work, both completed and on-going, which you can access both via topic and author. Please do get in touch with us if you would like to discuss this work further, or to participate in the research (much of which is based on information provided by staff and students) or to collaborate with any of us on future projects.
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The legitimacy of academic development As a relatively new field in the academy, higher education research is still struggling to establish its place as a legitimate field of academic enquiry. Much of the literature to date on this topic has taken the form of academic developers talking to other academic developers about the field. While this is an important aspect of the debate, we argue that the credibility as a legitimate field of academic enquiry is critically dependent on the perceptions and validation of faculty academics working in the broader academy. Our study thus canvassed the opinions, attitudes and expectations of academics who had participated in doctoral education workshops delivered to new supervisors ... |
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Big Love: managing a team of research supervisors In Australia PhD supervision is increasingly being carried out by teams of supervisors working collaboratively together, rather than via the more traditional one-on-one model. This paper offers a series of case studies of team supervision from a range of disciplines and extracts principles for the best management of this supervisory approach.
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Transcultural Academics in the Global Academy Much research has been undertaken on the problems experienced by international students studying at Australian universities, but there has been comparatively little attention paid to the challenges facing transnational academic staff. In this project we report on interviews with a range of transnational academic staff discussing their experiences of coming to work in the Australian university system ... |
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| And see our other work on this topic: Guerin, C. & Green, I. (2009a) Transcultural supervision: EAL supervisors and their research students. Virtual presentation at the World Universities Forum, Mumbai, India, January. Guerin, C. & Green, I. (2009b) The transcultural academic: cosmopolitanism and the imagined community of the global academy.Journal of the World Universities Forum 2(3): 17-24. Guerin, C. and Green, I. (2009c) Culture, community and cosmopolitanism: The international student experience. Poster presentation at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference on The Student Experience, Darwin, Australia, July. Guerin, C. & Green, I. (2009d) Research supervision and internationalisation: belonging to the global academy’, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference on Challenging Higher Education: knowledge, policy and practice, Newport, UK, December.
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