Academic life: Monitoring work patterns and daily activities |
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| Authors: | Helen J Forgasz Gilah C Leder |
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| Institution: | 1. Monash University, Australia
2. La Trobe University, Australia
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| Abstract: | Academics are reported to be working longer hours and have less time for research because of increasing administrative and
teaching demands. The traditional pattern of the academic enterprise appears to have changed. To explore whether this is indeed
the case, the Experience Sampling Method ESM], a research technique devised by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his colleagues
(1993), was used in a pilot study to monitor the working lives of 22 university academics from two multi campus universities
in Australia. Participants were asked to complete a specifically devised Experience Sampling Form ESF] on receipt of an SMS
message sent to their mobile phones six times a day for one week. Information was gathered about the activities being undertaken
and the respondents' feelings about these activities. Work related tasks reported were sorted into the 17 different categories
of academic work devised by Kreber (2000). The findings were examined by gender, university of employment, working hours,
and by level of academic appointment. |
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