Paper Presented by HERC at International Conference Berlin, 4-6 June 2012
HERC Director Professor Maria Slowey and Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Ekaterina Kozina delivered their co-authored paper entitled ‘The Voice of Irish Academics: Perspectives on professional development’ at a major International Conference: ‘Changing Conditions and Changing Approaches of Academic Work’. The Conference took place earlier this month in Berlin, Germany, 4-6 June.
The aim of this Conference was to showcase the findings from several large scale international research projects: ‘The Changing Academic Profession’ (CAP), ‘The Academic Profession in Europe: Responses to Societal Challenges’ (EUROAC), ‘The role of new Higher Education Professions for the redesign of teaching and studying’ (HEPRO) and others. The Conference was sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, organised by the International Centre Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) and was held in the Seminaris Hotel Conference Centre in Berlin. The representatives from more than 20 countries participated in the conference and presented the projects’ results from countries across Europe, North America and Pacific (Australia, Japan) regions. A special event, the dinner in celebration of Ulrich Teichler’s 70th Birthday, was also part in the conference programme.
The paper ‘The Voice of Irish Academics: Perspectives on professional development’ reported on the findings from a recent large scale empirical study in Ireland with an explicit focus on the professional development experiences and interests of academic staff across the eight higher education institutions in the Dublin Region.