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Why Research Leadership Matters : The Politics and Governance of Scientific Success.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flinders, Matthew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational leadership.
- Science and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- What makes some research teams thrive while others falter - even when talent and funding are comparable?Why Research Leadership Matters is the first focused, extensive and evidence-based analysis of research leadership - what it is, why it matters and how it can be fostered.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- About the author
- Part I Context and challenge
- 1 Understanding research leadership
- Focus
- Purpose
- Knowledge creation
- Problem definition
- Redefine leadership
- Conceptual innovation
- Politicise debate
- Influence policy
- Overview
- 2 Existing research: an issue overlooked
- Three seams of scholarship
- Higher education studies
- The traditionalist perspective
- The reformist perspective
- The pragmatist perspective
- The science of team science
- Systems
- Structures
- Spurs
- Critical leadership studies
- A zombie concept?
- No followers, no leaders
- Collaboration or tokenism
- Research leadership and logic multiplicity
- Core conclusion
- Strategic positioning
- Constructive coexistence
- 3 Existing knowledge: an issue emergent
- Research leadership, rooms and rhythms
- Scholarly straightjackets
- Innovation around academe
- Innovation beyond academe
- Hedgehogs and foxes
- 4 Understanding the problem: the research leadership challenge(s)
- Research leadership
- The research leadership challenge
- A barriers and blockages approach
- Part II Barriers and blockages
- 5 Training, time and tick-boxes
- Training: limited in terms of quantity and quality
- Time: a key ingredient of research leadership in short supply
- Tick-boxes: the challenge of increasing bureaucratic burdens
- Tricky challenges
- 6 Mentorship, mobility and mapping
- Mentorship: a largely informal and amateurish endeavour
- Mobility: building 'blended' or 'braided' careers remains almost impossible
- Mapping: no clear or coherent framework to support research leaders
- Cartographic considerations
- 7 Angst, architecture and access.
- Angst: insecure employment and short-term funding frustrates research leaders at all career stages
- Architecture: how physical and digital structures shape research leadership
- Access: a focus on 'talent' at an early career stage presents numerous challenges
- Square pegs, round holes
- Part III Facilitating and flourishing
- 8 Levels, levers and leadership
- Policy paradigms and cultural strangers
- Integrated frameworks and 'whole-career' thinking
- Step 1: mapping
- Step 2: stretching
- Step 3: populating
- 9 Banishing blockages and aligning enablers
- Innovate, protect, reduce
- Nurture, facilitate, clarify
- Promote, identify, create
- 10 Surviving, driving and thriving
- What has this book has discovered?
- What is research leadership?
- Why does it matter?
- How can the research leadership challenge be resolved?
- What this book has not done
- What has this book achieved?
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Flinders, Matthew Why Research Leadership Matters
- ISBN:
- 9781447378969
- OCLC:
- 1610749160
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