Dr Celia Whitchurch
- Qualifications and position:
- BA, DMS, PhD, CertTLHPE
- Lecturer in Higher Education
- Editor, Higher Education Quarterly
- Faculty:
- Department:
- Summary:
- My current research focuses on the changing roles and identities of academic and professional staff in a diversifying higher education community; the emergence of 'blended' roles in a 'third space' between academic and professional spheres; and the implications of this for management and leadership in higher education.
- Teaching:
- Research Projects:
- Project funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education entitled 'Staffing models and institutional flexibility' August 2011-May 2012.
Project funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education entitled "Optimising the Potential of 'Third Space' Professionals in UK Higher Education" January-December 2009.
- Postgraduate Research:
- Project funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education entitled 'Staffing models and institutional flexibility' August 2011-May 2012.
Project funded by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education entitled "Optimising the Potential of 'Third Space' Professionals in UK Higher Education" January-December 2009
- Professional Activities:
- Editor of Higher Education Quarterly
External Adviser to AUA Postgraduate Certificate programme
- Conferences/presentations:
- "Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals": University of Vienna, 6 May 2011
"Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals": DARMA (Danish research administrators), University of Aarhus, 31 May 2011
"Exploring the Relationship between Changing Institutional Contexts and Higher Education Roles and Identities" CHER conference Reykjavik, 23-24 June 2011
"The Rise of Blended Professionals: Implications for Individuals and Institutions". Standing Conference on Academic Practice, University of Warwick, 7 July 2011
- Personal Country Knowledge:
- Australia - professional identities in higher education
United States - professional identities in higher education
- Languages Spoken:
- Languages Written:
Publications
- Whitchurch, C. (2012) Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals. Monograph.
- Whitchurch, C. and Gordon, G. (2011) 'Some Implications of a Diversifying Workforce for Governance and Management', Tertiary Education and Management 17(1), 65-77.
- Whitchurch, C. and Gordon, G. (2010) 'Diversifying Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: Some Management Challenges', Tertiary Education and Management 16(2), 129–144.
- Whitchurch, C. (2010) 'Some Implications of 'Public/Private' Space for Professional Identities in Higher Education', Higher Education 60(6), 627–640.
- Gordon, G. and Whitchurch, C. (2010) Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce. New York: Routledge.
- Whitchurch, C. (2009) 'The Rise of the Blended Professional in Higher Education: A Comparison between the UK, Australia and the United States', Higher Education (published online early: doi.1007/s10734-009-9202-4)
- Whitchurch, C. (2008) Professional Managers in UK Higher Education: Preparing for Complex Futures. Final Report. London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.
- Whitchurch, C. (2008) 'Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: The Emergence of Third Space Professionals in UK Higher Education', Higher Education Quarterly 62(4), 377-396.
- Whitchurch, C. 'Professional Staff in UK Higher Education', Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 30(4), 375-386.
- Whitchurch, C. (2008) ''Beyond Administration and Management? Changing Professional Identities in UK Higher Education' R. Barnett and R. di Napoli (eds.), Changing Identities in Higher Education: Voicing Perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge.
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