eprintid: 10073947
rev_number: 14
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datestamp: 2019-05-16 13:52:45
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Moran, E
creators_name: Misra, D
title: Professional doctorates: A pathway to legitimacy for non-academic HE professionals?
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
keywords: professional doctorates; higher education; non-academic; HE professional;
‘third-space’ HE professionals.
note: ©Copyright 2018 Moran and Misra. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
abstract: This article discusses the current challenges faced by the two authors – both participants
on a professional doctorate (PD) programme in education at a leading UK university – in
gaining legitimacy as higher education (HE) professionals. By: (1) reflecting upon their own
professional experiences in HE and as PD students; (2) utilizing semi-structured interviews
with academic and non-academic professionals from their home institutions (in Ireland and
India); and (3) drawing on Celia Whitchurch’s typologies of ‘third-space’ HE professionalism,
they found that in Ireland the current reform of the HE policy and praxis environment offers
some real and positive opportunities for PD participants through the emergence of more
progressive models of HE professionalism. In contrast, the relative lack of reform and a highly
regulated Indian HE environment, presents ongoing difficulties in terms of applying one’s PD
learning in the work environment. This suggests that in India, PD graduates might, in fact,
be afforded greater career progression opportunities by transitioning to a more traditional
academic role.
date: 2018-03
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.16.1.08
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1656079
doi: 10.18546/LRE.16.1.08
lyricists_name: Misra, Debananda
lyricists_id: DMISR01
actors_name: Misra, Debananda
actors_id: DMISR01
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: London Review of Education
volume: 16
number: 1
pagerange: 75-89
issn: 1474-8460
citation:        Moran, E;    Misra, D;      (2018)    Professional doctorates: A pathway to legitimacy for non-academic HE professionals?                   London Review of Education , 16  (1)   pp. 75-89.    10.18546/LRE.16.1.08 <https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.16.1.08>.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073947/1/EJ1174797.pdf