Table of Contents

Part I: Contexts and Concepts 1. What Do We Know about Professors and Professorship? 2. Professionalism: Examining the Concept 3. Academic Leadership, Leaders and 'The Led' 4. Seeking Answers: Augmenting the Professor-Focused Knowledge Base Part II: The Perspectives of ‘The Led’ 5. Positive Perceptions of Professorial Academic Leadership 6. Professorship That Falls Short 7. The Bases of Assessments of Professorial Academic Leadership Part III: The Professoriate’s Perspectives 8. Negotiating a Passage: Becoming a Professor in the UK Academy 9. Doing Professorship in the Twenty-First-Century Academy 10. Chasing the Ideal: Morale and Job Satisfaction in the Professoriate Part IV: Re-Shaping Professorial Professionalism 11. Pressured Professionalism: Problematising Professorial Academic Leadership 12. Re-Designing Twenty-First-Century Professorship Appendix References Index

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Draws on cutting-edge research to consider the purpose of professors and explores the changing nature of professorship.

About the Author

Linda Evans is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, UK, and previously held professorial positions at the University of Leeds, UK, and the University of Warwick, UK.

Reviews

This is a worthwhile read for faculty and administrators. Administrators and their governing boards who read this book will further gain a fresh perspective on the impact of their policies. Evans’s book may be of particular interest for those who research job-related attitudes and leadership.
*Academy of Management Learning & Education*

A marvellous piece of work. Linda Evans’ meticulous scholarship and elegant analysis gives us the definitive authority on what it means to become, to be and to do work as a professor in the 21st-century university.
*Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management, University of the West of England, UK and Managing Partner, Practical Academics*

In a period of intense change and flux within higher education the need for academic leaders has never been greater. In this context, Linda Evans' Professors as Academic Leaders provides a novel and magisterial account of the changing roles and expectations that professors are increasingly expected to fulfil. What marks this book out is its precision and positivity. While not denying the existence of critical challenges, Evans focuses on the opportunities for the academy to shape the agenda and to reinvigorate scholarship.... Every academic needs to read this book.
*Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre, University of Sheffield, UK*