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McAlpine, Lynn; Wilson, Natacha; Turner, Gill; Saunders, Sharon; Dunn, Bill – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
Internationally, career prospects for postdocs, whether salaried on a Principal Investigator's (PI) grant or a fellowship, are precarious. Yet, many aspire to permanent research-teaching positions, and to achieve this goal they often strive to gain PI funding to demonstrate their research potential. Like many developers in research-intensive…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Career Development, Needs Assessment, Psychological Patterns
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Alexander, Patrick; Harris-Huemmert, Susan; McAlpine, Lynn – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
In this paper, we explore the usefulness of three different approaches to facilitating reflexivity and a critical awareness of emerging academic identities for doctoral students. This paper stems from a longitudinal research project entitled "The Next Generation of Social Scientists", which was conducted across three research-intensive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs
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McAlpine, Lynn – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
While there are increasing numbers of fixed-term researchers internationally, their experiences are relatively under-examined. As a result, I argue their developmental needs are not well understood and rarely addressed. This study--a cross-case analysis of social science researchers in two universities in the UK--builds on the few existing…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Social Sciences, Researchers, Universities
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McAlpine, Lynn; Asghar, Anila – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
This study describes a collaborative initiative with doctoral students to create an academic climate more conducive to fostering interaction across disciplinary groups in a faculty of education in North America. The project attempted to ensure that these students had a voice in creating practices, structures, and policies in the faculty that would…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Educational Environment, Leadership
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McAlpine, Lynn; Hopwood, Nick – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
The tradition in educational development is to work within institutions, often grouping people of similar roles from different academic fields for a common purpose, as in the orientation of new lecturers or provision of teaching assistant workshops for graduate students. Furthermore, development activities conventionally focus on one dimension of…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Adult Learning
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McAlpine, Lynn – International Journal for Academic Development, 2006
The field of academic development emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a result of student concern and unrest about poor teaching. This led to the creation of the first development units and a focus on course ratings which contributed to a thirty-plus year history of research emerging from a psychological perspective. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Intellectual History, Instructional Improvement, Improvement Programs, Trend Analysis