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Academic Work

Scholarship on academic work includes research on the Canadian professoriate, academic careers, and international studies on the academic profession. 

Books

Internationalization and the Academic Profession book cover.

Edited by Alper Çal, Glen A. Jones, and Yangson Kim

Universities in the Knowledge Society book cover.

Edited by Timo Aarrevaara, Martin Finkelstein, Glen A. Jones, and Jisun Jung

Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective book cover.

Edited by Martin J. Finkelstein and Glen A. Jones

Doctoral Education for the Knowledge Society: Convergence or Divergence in National Approaches? book cover.

Edited by Jung Cheol Shin, Barbara M. Kehm, and Glen A. Jones

Papers
























Karram Stephenson, G., Jones, G. A., Begin-Caouette, O., Metcalfe A.& Toor, A. (2017). Responding to Change Assessing Difference: A Review of the Literature on Professors at Canadian Universities. 

  • This review details research findings on Canadian professors from 1950-2017.

Gopaul, B., Jones, G. A, Weinrib, J., Metcalfe, A. S., Fisher, D. & Rubenstein, K. (2016). The Academic Profession in Canada: Perceptions of Canadian University Faculty on Research and Teaching. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 46(2), 55-77.



Field, C. C. and Jones, Glen A. (2016). A Survey of Sessional Faculty in Ontario Publicly Funded Universities. Toronto:  Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education, ¥, University of Toronto. 



Field, C. C., Jones, G. A., Karram Stephenson, G., & Khoyetsyan, A. (2014). The "Other" University Teachers: Non-Full-Time Instructors at Ontario Universities. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.


Field, C. C., Jones, G. A., Karram Stephenson, G. & Khoyetsyan, A. (2014). Les «autres» professeurs d’université: enseignants non à temps plein dans les universités de l’Ontario. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.






Gopaul, Bryan, Jones, Glen A., and Weinrib, Julian (2012). The Changing Academic Profession in Canada: Perceptions of Canadian University Faculty on Teaching and Research. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May, 2012.





Jones, Glen A. (2011). The Fragmentation of Academic Work and the Challenge for Academic Governance and Leadership. Paper presented at the World University Network's "Ideas and Universities" conference entitled "The Changing Roles of Academics and Administrators in Times of Uncertainty" hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Education, Hong Kong, November 3-4, 2011.


Jones, Glen A. (2011). The Horizontal and Vertical Fragmentation of Academic Work: The Academic Profession in Canada and a Proposal for a New International Study. Paper presented at the International Workshop on the Changing Academic Profession organized by the Graduate School of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, November 12-14, 2011.


Jones, Glen A., Weinrib, Julian, Metcalfe, Amy S., Fisher, Don, Rubenson, Kjell,  and Snee, Iain (2011). Perceptions of Early Career Faculty in the Context of Academic Work in Canada. Paper presented at the Fourth International CETL Conference entitled “Academia as Workplace: Linking Past, Present and Future” held at St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, April 4-6, 2011.






Jones, Glen A. and Kreber, Carolin (1994). Politics and the Professoriate. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, Calgary, June.


Projects

The Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society: Canadian Chapter

In 2017-18 our research team administered a national survey of faculty in Canada as part of the international Academic Profession in the Knowledge-based Society project. This international project involves more than 20 national research teams. 

Changing Academic Profession Study

In 2007 the Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey was administered in 18 countries. This major international project involved the administration of a common questionnaire to a sample of university faculty in multiple countries. The study focused on faculty perceptions of academic work, working conditions, job satisfaction, research activities, teaching activities, work history, and a range of demographic variables. The project design was highly decentralized, with national research teams collecting data and coordinating with other teams through international meetings.