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'Friday Is My Research Day': Chance, Time And Desire In The Search For The Teaching-Research Nexus In The Life Of A University Teacher, William Boyd, Meg O'Reilly, Karyn Rendall, Stephen Rowe, Erica Wilson, Kay Dimmock, Wendy Boyd, Elaine Nuske, Johan Edelheim, Daniel Bucher, Kath Fisher
'Friday Is My Research Day': Chance, Time And Desire In The Search For The Teaching-Research Nexus In The Life Of A University Teacher, William Boyd, Meg O'Reilly, Karyn Rendall, Stephen Rowe, Erica Wilson, Kay Dimmock, Wendy Boyd, Elaine Nuske, Johan Edelheim, Daniel Bucher, Kath Fisher
Dr Meg O'Reilly
This paper builds on some ideas recently presented by Boyd et al. (2010). In that paper, the focus was on the ways in which experienced academic staff articulate the teaching-research nexus. By presenting six short case accounts, this paper describes how a reflective narrative activity enabled some ‘new to academe’ teachers to identify the teaching research nexus in their own work. For each of them, there was some particular reason or stimulus that led to them articulating the teaching-learning nexus in their work. Given the effectiveness of this method for enabling staff to consider the teaching-research nexus, this paper speculates …