Journal article
Constituting the significance and value of research: Views from information technology academics and industry professionals
Studies in Higher Education, Vol.29(2), pp.219-238
2004
Abstract
The information technology research community, comprising both academic and industry stake-holders, is responding to national and international imperatives that challenge disparate groups to work together. In this article it is shown how, within both academic and industrial contexts, researchers interpret, or constitute, the significance and value of research in different ways. Important aspects of these differences may be described in terms of what comes to the foreground when members of the community are asked to consider the significance of projects; and what recedes to the background, ultimately forming a 'perceptual boundary' beyond which they do not see. The study reported here represents a first step in understanding one dimension of the 'collective consciousness' of the information technology research community. The framework developed may contribute to the widening awareness of more experienced researchers, as well as revealing something of the character of the research community to those engaged in researcher training, education and development.
Details
- Title
- Constituting the significance and value of research: Views from information technology academics and industry professionals
- Authors
- Christine Bruce (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyBinh Pham (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyIan D Stoodley (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
- Publication details
- Studies in Higher Education, Vol.29(2), pp.219-238
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2004
- DOI
- 10.1080/0307507042000190804
- ISSN
- 0307-5079
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2004 Taylor and Francis. This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Studies in Higher Education 2004, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0307507042000190804
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450196302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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