'Managing academic research in universities or cat-herding for beginners: the case of the UK' by Professor Rosemary Deem (PowerPoint).
- The paper examines recent changes to research and science policies in the UK & some of the institutional consequences of these policies for the current leadership, management and administration of research in universities - Focuses on Pro Vice Chancellors, Faculty & Dept research directors, specialist central research units and research administrators - Examines the connections between the continuing rationalisation, managerialisation and bureaucratisation of university research & academics’ involvement in/engagement with basic research
Should Top Universities be Led by Top Researchers and Are They? by Dr. Amanda Goodall (Acrobat PDF)
Abstract If the best universities in the world who have the widest choice of candidates systematically appoint top researchers as their vice chancellors and presidents, is this one form of evidence that, on average, better researchers make better leaders? This paper addresses the first part of the question: are they currently appointing distinguished scholars? The study documents a positive correlation between the lifetime citations of a university s president and the position of that university in a world ranking. The lifetime citations are counted by hand of the leaders of the top 100 universities identified by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in their Academic Ranking of World Universities (2004). These numbers are then normalised by adjusting for the different citation conventions across academic disciplines. The results are not driven by outliers.
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