The Negotiation of Academic Citizenship and Identity in Research Universities: Experiences of UK and Philippine Academic Staff

Conference: The Paris Conference on Education (PCE2022)
Title: The Negotiation of Academic Citizenship and Identity in Research Universities: Experiences of UK and Philippine Academic Staff
Stream: Higher Education
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Joclarisse Albia, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

Abstract:

The performative culture in higher education institutions, particularly in research universities have been noted in literature as one of the causes of a weakened academic citizenship. This invites a questioning not only of the understandings of this notion of academic citizenship, but also how it is being negotiated and its links with academics’ identities. Drawing upon perspectives of citizenship as practice and conceptual frames on social identity, the paper presents the experiences of selected UK and Philippine academic staff as they navigate tensions emerging from this research focus both in their institutions and wider HE settings. The case study reveals that participants draw from certain perceived ideas of autonomy and academic freedom as they participate in academic work, to negotiate and enact academic citizenship in their contexts. These in turn have encouraged reflections on the university as a managed institution versus a “community” academics identify and share values with, and how they as citizen-participants position themselves as members. This comparative examination likewise opens further understandings of research universities and the nuanced culture in these institutions as shaped by wider contextual frameworks, and consequently, how it informs academic staff’s views on their academic work, citizenship and identity.



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