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Who is the newer researcher into higher education? Locating ourselves in shifting terrains

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:40 authored by Sally Hancock, Sue Clegg, Barbara CrossouardBarbara Crossouard, Peter Kahn, Saranne Weller
This article aims to deconstruct the underpinning tenets of the term ‘newer researcher into higher education’. In recognition of the ambiguities of the term, we begin by questioning the nature of the field(s) of research into higher education (HE). Secondly, we critique the policy discourses associated with the term ‘newer researcher’. Then, with a view to illustrating the over-linear assumptions of such discourses, the article articulates the biographies of practising researchers in this field through narrative reconstructions of the five authors’ own routes as researchers into HE, openly acknowledging their temporalities and serendipitous conditionalities. Finally, we consider the nature of a career in the context of the professionalisation of routes into HE research. Our concluding remarks return us to the question of the status of HE research and to suggestions of positive ways to embrace the dilemmas we face.

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  • Published

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Journal

Higher Education Research and Development

ISSN

0729-4360

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

2

Volume

35

Page range

282-295

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  • Education Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-10-05

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2015-10-05

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