{"id":3626,"date":"2017-08-08T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T08:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:45","slug":"growing-gulf-between-academics-and-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/08\/08\/growing-gulf-between-academics-and-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing gulf between academics and management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of her\u00a0research into educational leadership, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/research\/profiles\/shepherd-sue.html\">Dr Sue Shepherd<\/a> conducted a census of pro vice-chancellors. \u00a0Predominantly white, male professors, Sue found their motivations go beyond a desire to give back to their institution at the end of a successful academic career. Unlike the previous generation of \u2018reluctant\u2019 managers, they have made a conscious decision to take an academic management path, prompted by a desire for a seat at the top table and to make a strategic contribution. \u00a0These new full-time \u2018career track\u2019 PVCs\u00a0are\u00a0becoming increasingly divorced from day to day academic activities and thus a gulf is developing between management and the wider academic community.<\/p>\n<p>Sue presented her findings at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belmas.org.uk\/\">British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society<\/a> annual conference this year.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more in a recent article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/2017\/jul\/27\/theres-a-gulf-between-academics-and-university-management-and-its-growing\">Guardian&#8217;s Higher Education Network<\/a> section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of her\u00a0research into educational leadership, Dr Sue Shepherd conducted a census of pro vice-chancellors. \u00a0Predominantly white, male professors, Sue found their motivations go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/08\/08\/growing-gulf-between-academics-and-management\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":3629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}