Growing and developing as a university researcher |
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| Authors: | Gerlese S Åkerlind |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia |
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| Abstract: | While there is a substantial body of literature on academics’ development as teachers, investigation of their development
as researchers post-PhD is rare. This study undertook an investigation of academics’ ways of understanding their own growth
and development as a university researcher. Four qualitatively different ways of understanding research development emerged:
(1) Becoming confident as a researcher; (2) Becoming recognised as a researcher; (3) Becoming more productive as a researcher;
and (4) Becoming more sophisticated as a researcher. The first category of development was seen as most relevant to the early
stages of an academic career, when doing a PhD or during one’s first academic appointment, but may also re-occur at later
stages of a career during changes in research direction, etc. The last three categories are seen as relevant to all career
stages, including more advanced stages as well as the early stages of a research career. Comparisons between academics’ ways
of understanding their growth and development as a university researcher and as a university teacher are also presented. |
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| Keywords: | Academic development Conceptions Phenomenography Research development Ways of understanding |
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