Table of Contents

Introduction: Academic research and researchers

Part One: The politics and culture of university research
Academic un-freedom in the new knowledge economy
Research quality assessment: Objectives, approaches, responses and consequences
The structure of academic research: What can citation studies tell us?
Research management and research cultures: Power and productivity
Creating collaboration: An exploration of multinational research partnerships
Producing researchers: The changing role of the doctorate

Part Two: Researcher experiences and identities
Balancing different audiences: Experiences of Dutch academics
Postcolonial perspectives on interdisciplinary researcher identities
'You do it from your core': Priorities, perceptions and practices of research among Indigenous academics in Australian and New Zealand universities
Isn't research just research? What are candidates and supervisors thinking?
Learning to be a researcher: Challenges for undergraduates
Understanding academics' engagement with research

Conclusion: Directions for future research

About the Author

Angela Brew, PhD is Associate Professor in the Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Sydney. Lisa Lucas, PhD is a lecturer in Education at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol.