Research productivity and academics' conceptions of research

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• 作者：Angela Brew ; David Boud ; Sang Un Namgung ; Lisa Lucas ; Karin Crawford
• 关键词：Researchers ; Views of research ; Research training
• 刊名：Higher Education
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：71
• 期：5
• 页码：681-697
• 全文大小：400 KB
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• 作者单位：Angela Brew (1) (2)
  David Boud (3) (4) (8)
  Sang Un Namgung (5)
  Lisa Lucas (6)
  Karin Crawford (7)
  
  1. Learning and Teaching Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  2. The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  3. Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
  4. Faculty of Arts and Social Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  8. Institute for Work-Based Learning, Middlesex University, London, UK
  5. Institute of Jeonbuk Education Policy, Chonju, South Korea
  6. Graduate School of Education, The University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  7. Educational Development and Enhancement Unit, The University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education
  Education
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-174X

文摘

This paper asks the question: do people with different levels of research productivity and identification as a researcher think of research differently? It discusses a study that differentiated levels of research productivity among English and Australian academics working in research-intensive environments in three broad discipline areas: science, engineering and technology; social science and humanities; and medicine and health sciences. The paper explores the different conceptions of research held by these academics in terms of their levels of research productivity, their levels of research training, whether they considered themselves an active researcher and a member of a research team, and their disciplinary differences.