No Time to Think

Menzies, Heather; Newson, Janice

doi:10.1177/0961463x07074103

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“…I'm working in an area where technology is moving quite fast…. It takes time to invest in new Time, well-known to be a precious commodity to academics (Ito and Brotheridge 2007;Menzies and Newson 2007;Ylijoki and Mantyla 2003), is what the CRC makes possible. The freedom to engage with students and collaborators, the opportunity to stay on top of one's research, and to build a research program are significant advantages that several CRCs identified as benefits of being a Chair.…”

Section: The Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Canada Research Chairs Program: the good, the bad, and the ugly

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Drakich

2009

High Educ

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Drawing on 60 qualitative interviews with Canada research chairs (CRCs), we explore their careers in context. We develop a model to understand the intersection of individual and institutional factors that shape the everyday experiences of the CRCs. The model shows the dialectical relationship between faculty identity, research, relations with colleagues and students, and institutional practices and structures. We classify individuals' experiences as ''good,'' ''bad,'' or ''ugly.'' The interviews show that while a majority of CRCs have a positive experience, others have a negative experience that is prone to becoming ugly when institutional practices and systemic factors impede the work of the CRC. We discuss the perceived problems with the CRC program from the standpoint of Chairholders, and the implications of our findings for the CRC program and universities. As well, we propose that additional research on the professoriate is needed to determine whether or not the model from our study is generalizable beyond our sample.

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Section: The Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Canada Research Chairs Program: the good, the bad, and the ugly

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Drakich

2009

High Educ

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“…Other academics have perceived that social media usage might shift their attention from knowledge creation to knowledge production. For instance, the sample of academics included in the study by Menzies and Newson (2007) believed that being connected to social media on a 24/7 basis would limit their ability to think deeply about their work and, therefore, decrease their creativity. In addition, researchers who are convinced of the benefits of social media usage have complained that they lack sufficient time to do so (Rowlands et al, 2011).…”

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Technology and Social Media Usage in Higher Education: The Influence of Individual Innovativeness

2020

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This article presents a two-phase study exploring the usage of technology in higher education as well as the role of the general innovativeness in predicting the actual use of technology. During the first phase of the study, which involved 502 staff members, a descriptive analysis of their usage of social media, technological devices, and Microsoft Office 365 cloud services was performed, with various demographic variables being considered. During the second phase, which involved a subsample of 106 staff members, structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine a model in which the general innovativeness and the demographic variables acted as predictors of the actualized innovativeness. The results showed that the staff used social media, devices, and cloud services quite satisfactorily. The examination of their user profiles revealed that there were significant differences among the staff members on the basis of their demographic variables, especially their gender, job type, and discipline. The results of the SEM showed that the general innovativeness contributed positively, as was expected, to predicting the adoption of devices, non-academic social networking sites and Office 365 cloud services. The results further suggested that males were early adopters of devices, while academics were early adopters of commercial services and academic social networking sites. However, the academics appeared to lag behind the administrators in terms of adopting Office 365 cloud services. The implications of the study and directions for future research are also presented.

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“…McAlpine and Amundsen (2009) reported that students were intentional in developing and drawing on a range of rewarding academic and non-academic relationships beyond the department in order to achieve personal goals. How an individual's networking strand is seen and the efforts made to develop it in light of such intentions are situated in, for instance, technologies that enable more contact with greater numbers of spatially separate individuals (Menzies and Newson 2007).…”

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Different places, different specialisms: similar questions of doctoral identities under construction

McAlpine

Lucas

2011

Teaching in Higher Education

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We share a common interest in researching the experiences of doctoral students. Over time, as we conducted our independent studies, we became increasingly interested in the varied ways in which doctoral students constructed their identities in relation to their past experiences, present and shifting intentions and affect, personal and social resources and more general life contexts. In this paper we analyze a subset of data from two studies of doctoral students in the social sciences in two different research universities. Using the notion of identitytrajectory, we view doctoral student identity as under construction as students explore ways of thinking and interacting in their academic work within the fullness of their overall lives.

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No Time to Think

Cited by 113 publications

References 14 publications

The Canada Research Chairs Program: the good, the bad, and the ugly

The Canada Research Chairs Program: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Technology and Social Media Usage in Higher Education: The Influence of Individual Innovativeness

Different places, different specialisms: similar questions of doctoral identities under construction

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