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Seeking alternative researcher identities in newcomer academic institutions in Sweden

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Summary, in English

Proliferating excellence gold standards in the global academic system tend to obscure the far-reaching diversification of academic missions, practices, ambitions and identities brought by massification. This article approaches this topic by a review of theory on academic scholarship and how it has changed in the wake of academic massification and the development of binary higher education systems. In addition, the article reports on the first results of a study on research groups in “newcomer” higher education institutions in Sweden. By synthesising findings and arguments about institutional constraints and the individual ambitions of researchers, the article offers a few preliminary conclusions. It also calls for more scholarly attention to the existence of an academic labour force that corresponds to a widened or altered definition of academic scholarship and that seems to be predominantly found in newcomer academic institutions.

Department/s

  • Research Policy Institute (RPI)

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

1-18

Publication/Series

Higher Education Management and Policy

Volume

24

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

OECD Publishing

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1609-6924