Shaping academic practice through transnational research capacity building: ‘It shaped how I look at the world’

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Shaping academic practice through transnational research capacity building: ‘It shaped how I look at the world’. / Madsen, Lene Møller; Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine.

2019. Paper presented at SRHE International conference into Higher Education, Newport, United Kingdom.

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Harvard

Madsen, LM & Adriansen, HK 2019, 'Shaping academic practice through transnational research capacity building: ‘It shaped how I look at the world’', Paper presented at SRHE International conference into Higher Education, Newport, United Kingdom, 11/12/2019 - 13/12/2019.

APA

Madsen, L. M., & Adriansen, H. K. (2019). Shaping academic practice through transnational research capacity building: ‘It shaped how I look at the world’. Paper presented at SRHE International conference into Higher Education, Newport, United Kingdom.

Vancouver

Madsen LM, Adriansen HK. Shaping academic practice through transnational research capacity building: ‘It shaped how I look at the world’. 2019. Paper presented at SRHE International conference into Higher Education, Newport, United Kingdom.

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Madsen, Lene Møller ; Adriansen, Hanne Kirstine. / Shaping academic practice through transnational research capacity building: ‘It shaped how I look at the world’. Paper presented at SRHE International conference into Higher Education, Newport, United Kingdom.

Bibtex

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abstract = "For the past 30 years, Danida (Danish International Development Assistance) has supported research capacity building of scholars in the Global South as a means of including them in the socalled global knowledge economy. This paper presents findings from a study that explores the experiences and reflections of various researchers from Africa involved in this type of research capacity building. It focuses on the implications of the involvement for the scholars{\textquoteright} academicpractice, work, and later career. Based on 14 qualitative interviews and a questionnaire distributed to 500 African former and present PhD- students, the study shows that learning critical thinking, flat social hierarchies, and discussing and sharing knowledge are pivotal for their current research practice. By using the notions Geographies of scientific knowledge and Cultural production of aneducated person, the paper draws attentions to the situatedness of academic practice inherent in this type of transnational support for academic development.",
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RIS

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