The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education: Studies in Third Space Professionalism

The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education highlights the importance of developing blended professionalism as a way of future-proofing Higher Education leadership, strategy, and outcomes.

With carefully chosen international contributors, this book discusses the rationale for championing blended/integrated practitioners and uses a narrative case study approach to uncover the value, identities, and impact of these individuals who work across institutional boundaries, to promote interdisciplinarity as well as staff and student success. Divided into four key sections, this book explores:

• strategies, leadership, and theory;
• identities, boundaries, and ways of working;
• the impact of blended professionals/integrated practitioners;
• career trajectories and developing the integrated practitioner.

The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of higher education, including academic and professional staff, as well as postgraduate students in the field of Education.

Contents

List of contributors

Foreword- SALLY BROWN

Preface

The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education

Studies in Third Space Professionalism: Introduction and Literature Review

EMILY MCINTOSH AND DIANE NUTT

SECTION ONE

Strategies, Leadership and Theory

2. Understanding and Debating The Third Space: Achieving strategy

3. JULIE HALL

4. Leadership in the Third Space

5. SUSANNAH QUINSEE

6. The emergence of the Newest "Professional Class" in US Higher Education

7. MATTHEW D. PISTILLI AND JOHN N. GARDNER

8. Building Bridges and Connections – The language used to connect and define communities in The Third Space

9. FIONA DENNEY

10. The Viral Landscapes of Third Space Working: Debating and challenging the power dynamic of the new ‘blended’ approach

11. STELLA JONES-DEVITT

    SECTION TWO

    Exploring Identities, Boundaries and Ways of Working

12. Exploring the Identities of Blended Professionals in Higher Education

13. FRAN BEATON AND JULIA HOPE

14. Owned, Shared and Contested Spaces in Higher Education

15. DEBORAH LOCK

16. Supporting and Developing Teaching-Focused Individuals to Professorial level : career progression across boundaries

17. JULIE HULME

18. The Blended Professional: Barriers and boundaries to collaborative institutional cultures

19. SONYA CAMPBELL-PERRY

20. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

21. KATIE AKERMAN

22. What Do Blended/Integrated Practitioners Do? Insights into ways of working strategically and influencing policy and practice

23. DONNA MURRAY

24. Working From the Centre: Influencing cross-departmental working

25. FIONA SHELTON

    SECTION THREE

    Exploring the Impact of Blended Professionals/Integrated Practitioners

26. The Student Experience Transitions Model: Integrated Practice to Inspire Staff to Support Students

27. MICHELLE MORGAN

28. Purposeful Working: Authentic leadership to enhance the student experience

29. HARRIET DUNBAR-MORRIS

30. Supporting the Development, Recognition and Impact of Third Space Professionals

31. HELEN WEBSTER

32. Leading Collaborative Projects, Recognising Distinctive Voices and Empowering Others to Create

33. LUKE MILLARD AND GRAHAM LOWE

34. The Importance of Integrated Practice: Impacting and enabling student success via student peer education

35. MARCIA ODY

36. The Importance of Integrated Practice in Student Engagement and Success

37. WILLIAM CAREY

    SECTION FOUR

    Exploring Career Trajectories and Developing the Integrated Practitioner

38. Career Trajectories in The Third Space

39. JENNY LAWRENCE

40. Recognising and Developing Talent: Rewarding Integrated Practice Across Boundaries

41. JASPER SHOTTS AND MICHAEL SHAW

42. The Importance of a Mentor in Overcoming the ‘Jack of All Trades, Master of None’ Syndrome

43. SUE BECKINGHAM

44. Rewarding Blended Working and Integrated Practice

DIANE NUTT

Conclusion: Third Spaces and Integrated Practice - concluding reflections

EMILY MCINTOSH AND DIANE NUTT

Glossary

Index

Emily McIntosh is Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience at Middlesex University, London, UK.

Diane Nutt is an Independent Higher Education Consultant working in the UK.

"There is so much to recommend in this book. The individual contributions, augmented by the editors’ careful synthesis throughout, are a revelation. And its timing is prescient: it makes a critical and welcome contribution to our sector’s thinking and theorising as we dare to look hopefully towards a post-pandemic ‘better normal’."- Professor Sally Kift PFHEA FAAL ALTF, President Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows and Visiting Professorial Fellow, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University, Australia

"There is so much to recommend in this book. The individual contributions, augmented by the editors’ careful synthesis throughout, are a revelation. And its timing is prescient: it makes a critical and welcome contribution to our sector’s thinking and theorising as we dare to look hopefully towards a post-pandemic ‘better normal’."- Professor Sally Kift PFHEA FAAL ALTF, President Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows and Visiting Professorial Fellow, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University, Australia