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To Dean, or not to Dean, that is the question

In: How to Keep Your Research Project on Track

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  • Jenna Ward

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This chapter is an illustration of how taking up a senior academic leadership position poses an existential threat to research, relationships and reputation. Based on my own experience of being a mother, research-focused academic and a Dean, I offer insights, reflections and some critical questions for those who are either in, or considering taking up, a senior leadership position whilst maintaining a research career. The chapter will not present research as a scientific, linear process that follows logical and clearly defined stages to completion but instead will focus on the often chaotic, fraught and frustrating reality of keeping research projects on track; in and amongst real life.

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  • Jenna Ward, 2024. "To Dean, or not to Dean, that is the question," Chapters, in: Keith Townsend & Mark N. Saunders (ed.), How to Keep Your Research Project on Track, chapter 37, pages 220-228, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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