Smernitskaya, Natalya 
ORCID: 0009-0009-7735-1590
(2023)
Exploring Academic Autonomy from the Perspective of Faculty.
Doctor of Education thesis, University of Liverpool.
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Abstract
This study explores academic autonomy as it is perceived by departmental Faculty members. This study gives the leading role to the departmental faculty to inform the research about their vision how academic autonomy is and should be developed. The study uses Interpretative Phenomenological Approach (IPA) method combined with Focus group method. This combination of methods, though traditionally viewed as not compatible, is justified in this study. It allowed the access to individual experiences of Faculty members and collection of data directly from them. IPA is combined with the Focus Group method to bring this research to a collegial level. The participants in Focus group were 25 participants, including lecturers, professors and teaching assistants. This method allows exploring the phenomenon of academic autonomy at departmental level and observing how the Faculty involvement in academic autonomy matters. The data is analyzed according to the traditions of IPA, based on the protocol designed specifically for the purpose of this study. The findings of the study shed the light on how Faculty perceives academic autonomy from the departmental perspective, what strategies and actions Faculty define as crucial, to what extent and under what conditions Faculty members are ready to contribute into academic changes at their department.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctor of Education) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2024 08:41 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2024 08:42 |
| DOI: | 10.17638/03176533 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3176533 |
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