Professors as Academic Leaders: Expectations, Enacted Professionalism and Evolving Roles

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What is the role of a professor How does someone achieve professorial status What do non-professorial colleagues think about professors Professors as Academic Leaders draws on a wealth of data not only to explore what it is to be a professor but also to consider how professors are perceived by others. Linda Evans presents the findings from those three studies, with a combined data base of over 2,400 questionnaire responses and 100 interview transcripts, and discusses their implications for the future development of the UK-based professoriate and leadership in higher education. She looks at what people want from their leaders, and why, and what happens when they don't receive it. She also considers whether, and if so to what extent, leaders and leadership practice should be informed and shaped by what 'the led' want.

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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. Evanss 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 *

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Linda Evans is Professor of Leadership and Professional Learning at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously worked at the University of Warwick, UK.