I denne rapporten presenteres hovedresultatene fra en undersøkelse av arbeidsvilkår for
vitenskapelig ansatte i universitetssektoren og forskere i instituttsektoren gjennomført ved …

The prime aim of this chapter is to give a broad outline of academic work in Norwegian
higher education. From being a virtually unresearched field 20-25 years ago, academic work …

This chapter examines the comparative research on the academic profession and gives a
picture of the Finnish academic profession's characteristics in a comparative framework. It …

Entrance to the academic profession can be regarded from different angles: from the
perspective of state authorities responsible for the development of the national system of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to draw on the employment situation of postdoctoral
researchers (postdocs) in the Netherlands, concerning their career prospects and …

The Charter and Code incorporating the Human Resource Strategy for Researchers
(HRS4R) is a European Commissions initiative to make researchers' careers more attractive …

The nature of the academic profession has changed considerably, due to a shift toward a
private sector model and changes in the management of teaching and research …

This book presents the analysis of the representative survey about the academic profession
in twelve European countries. Higher education in Europe has experienced a substantial …

This chapter considers the academic working environment in eight European countries and
reports on academics' impressions of the changes that environment has undergone in …

The expansion of Finnish higher education system has been palpable. Its core, the
academic profession, has also faced consequential changes. The definition of Academic …