Fools, Facilitators and Flexians: Academic Identities in Marketised Environments
Fools, Facilitators and Flexians: Academic Identities in Marketised Environments
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傻瓜、促进者和灵活者：市场化环境中的学术身份
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2273.2012.00513.x
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Smith K
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Smith K
本文以健康不平等这一跨学科领域为研究对象，通过访谈探讨学术认同的主观解释。研究发现，学术界是一个市场，在这个市场中，积极从事研究的职业需要学者扮演企业家的角色，向资助者推销想法。除此之外，出现了两种截然不同的理想身份：寻求与政策制定者合作的学者(政策促进者)和寻求挑战主导话语的学者(莎士比亚式的傻瓜)。大多数受访者强烈认同这两种身份中的一种，很少有人认为学术界充分支持他们的偏好，尽管有一些共识认为，最近的变化有助于发挥“政策促进者”的作用。在受访者描述如何在市场化环境中扮演“莎士比亚式的傻瓜”这类角色时，又出现了一种变色龙式的身份(“变色龙”)：学者们创造出可延展的想法，可以根据不同的受众进行改编。在探索这些同一性的过程中，论文挑战了模式1和模式2研究之间的流行区别。
Employing the interdisciplinary field of health inequalities as a case study, this paper draws on interviews to explore subjective accounts of academic identities. It finds widespread acceptance that academia is a market place in which research‐active careers require academics to function as entrepreneurs marketing ideas to funders. Beyond this, two contrasting aspirational identities emerged: academics seeking to work collaboratively with policy makers (‘policy facilitators’) and academics seeking to challenge dominant discourses (‘Shakespearean fools’). Most interviewees identified strongly with one or the other of these identities and few believed academia sufficiently supported their preference, although there was some consensus that recent changes were aiding ‘policy facilitator’ roles. In interviewees' accounts of trying to pursue ‘Shakespearean fool’ type roles in marketised environments, a further, chameleon‐like identity emerged (‘flexians’): academics producing malleable ideas that can be adapted for different audiences. In exploring these identities, the paper challenges the popular distinction between mode‐1 and mode‐2 research.