Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index.
Introduction / Roberto Di Napoli and Ronald Barnett -- Preamble : knowledge identities / Marilyn Strathern -- pt. 1. Perspectives -- Being an academic today / Peter Taylor -- Have students got a voice? / Denise Batchelor -- Identities of academic developers : critical friends in the academy? / Gunnar Handal -- Beyond administration and management : changing professional identities in UK higher education / Celia Whitchurch -- pt. II. Responses -- The myth of a golden age? : reflections from a vice-chancellor / Robert G. Burgess -- Scenes in a university : performing academic identities in shifting contexts / Laura Miller -- The question of identity : negotiating roles and voices in evolving academic systems / Lynn McAlpine, Marian Jazvac-Martek, and Allison Gonsalves -- Academic identities and institutional change / Gerard Delanty -- Academic development : identity and paradox / Ray Land -- The role of professional associations in the formation of professional identity : the US experience / Victor Borden -- pt. III. The students' views -- A crisis in identity : the view of a postgraduate student of higher education / Susan Lapworth -- Being an undergraduate student in the twenty-first century / Alison Ahearn, Oliver Broadbent, John Collins, and Eirini Spentza -- Postscript : academic identities and the story of institutions / David Watson -- Coda : identity and voice in higher education : making connections / Ronald Barnett and Roberto Di Napoli.