Enabling innovative postgraduate research: critical foresight and strategic considerations for university leaders
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Enabling innovative postgraduate research: critical foresight and strategic considerations for university leaders |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3337 |
Book Title | Postgraduate education in higher education |
Authors | van der Laan, Luke (Author) and Ostini, Jenny (Author) |
Editors | Padro, Fernando F., Erwee, Ronel, Harmes, Meredith A., Harmes, Marcus K. and Danaher, Patrick Alan |
Page Range | 65-84 |
Series | University Development and Administration |
Chapter Number | 5 |
Number of Pages | 20 |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of Publication | Singapore |
ISBN | 9789811052477 |
9789811052491 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0468-1_16-1 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-10-0468-1_16-1 |
Abstract | Innovative postgraduate research is an outcome that requires necessary preconditions to flourish in the higher education system. Neither the system underpinning postgraduate research nor the students themselves can make this happen. Rather, the worldviews and assumptions of leaders as decision-makers, who continually build, amend, and deconstruct higher education systems, are critical precursors to nurturing innovative postgraduate research. There is almost universal agreement that universities are vital in shaping global, national, and local futures. The impact of universities is broader than their traditional remit and encompasses a full diversity of ecological, social, and economic outcomes. Universities have a pivotal role in achieving a shift from traditional sources of wealth to new service models, radical innovation, and small and medium enterprise development. Disruptions faced by society are also disrupting traditionally 'slow to change' university institutions. This challenges university leadership. While many still regard the world as thriving in the information age, it has been suggested that we have already transitioned into a new age, the conceptual age. Universities will need to address this shift to economies dependent on conceptual workers through their education model(s). A new profile of university leadership is rapidly emerging to enable the emergence of innovative postgraduate studies to meet the need of the conceptual age through initiatives such as embodied in 'third-generation postgraduate studies'. The necessary paradigms needed by university leaders are outlined for this important aspect of higher education engagement to flourish to the benefit of innovation, the economy, and ultimately societies. |
Keywords | innovation; postgraduate research; postnormal; higher education; universities; knowledge; work; leadership |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390308. Technical, further and workplace education |
390115. Work integrated learning (incl. internships) | |
390102. Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development | |
390305. Professional education and training | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3y49/enabling-innovative-postgraduate-research-critical-foresight-and-strategic-considerations-for-university-leaders
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