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Leadership and Institutional Change in Doctoral Education in a Neoliberal Policy Context

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Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education

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Opportunities to study leadership in action within universities are scarce but are invaluable and instructive when they present themselves. This chapter is such an account. It represents a rare opportunity to examine a university over time with the challenges for senior university managers and leaders to operate, change and adapt in a highly competitive, tightly funded and corporatised environment to make their university nationally competitive and globally attractive for doctoral study. The study is pertinent at a time when market and management objectives challenge the power of the individual academic while emphasising accountability within the managerial higher education environment. Within a neoliberal government funding and policy environment the role and influence of senior leadership in doctoral education is examined.

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  1. Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Ruth Neumann

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    Sónia Cardoso , Orlanda Tavares  & Cristina Sin ,  & 

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    Sónia Cardoso , Orlanda Tavares , Cristina Sin  & Teresa Carvalho , ,  & 

  3. Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Teresa Carvalho

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Neumann, R. (2020). Leadership and Institutional Change in Doctoral Education in a Neoliberal Policy Context. In: Cardoso, S., Tavares, O., Sin, C., Carvalho, T. (eds) Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38046-5_8

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