Universities into the 21st Century / Becoming an Academic

Academic Practice in a Changing International Landscape.- Expectations and Experiences of Aspiring and Early Career Academics: Implications for Strengthening Career Preparation.- Meaning and Purpose in Postdoctoral Research: Developing as an Academic Researcher.- Comings and Goings? Disciplinary Employment Trajectories in the UK Social Sciences.- Doctoral Students and a Future in Academe? From the Iceberg to the Shore.- Living and Imagining Academic Identities: Perceptions of Doctoral Students and Pre-Tenure Academics.- Rethinking Preparation for Academic Careers: Privileged Versus Neglected Aspects of Academic Practice.- Commentaries on the Chapters: Responses from Early Career Academics, Developers and Administrators.

LYNN McALPINE is a Professor in the Faculty of Education and former Director of the Centre for University Teaching and Learning at McGill University, Canada. She has received distinguished research awards from both the American Educational Research Association and the Canadian Society for Studies in Higher Education. McAlpine is presently on secondment to the University of Oxford as Director of the Centre for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education. She is also Co-Editor of the International Journal of Academic Development. GERLESE AKERLIND has extensive experience in academic development at the Australian National University. As an academic developer, she has always had a focus on the breadth of academic work, of which teaching and learning is but a part, as well as a focus on early career academics. Since 2006 she has been seconded to Oxford University on a part-time basis to work on the development of research education and research supervision. She is also a Research Associate (honourary) of the Oxford Learning Institute. Between 2005-2007 she was co-editor of the journal, Higher Education Research and Development (HERD), and is on the editorial board for Education Research Review.