ESW Lunchtime Seminar
Centre for Higher Education and Equity
Research (CHEER)
Wednesday 29th June, 12.30-2.00pm
Room 101, Fulton
Professor Bruce Macfarlane, University of Hong Kong
presents:
“What are university professors for?
Exploring intellectual leadership”
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The phrase ‘intellectual leadership’ is often invoked but rarely
explained. Drawing on his recent research (Macfarlane, 2011),
Professor Macfarlane will argue the importance of recovering
the idea of intellectual leadership as a counter-weight to
growing managerialism in higher education particularly in
(re)defining the role of (full) professors.
One way of understanding intellectual leadership in higher
education is to consider how the privileges of academic
freedom may be balanced with the responsibilities of
academic duty. Professor Macfarlane will present a model of
intellectual leadership with four orientations to illustrate how
this concept can be better understood and applied to the role
of university professors.
This seminar is based on a forthcoming book to be published
by Routledge (Macfarlane, 2012) and a recent paper in
Studies in Higher Education (Macfarlane, 2011).