Professors as Academic Leaders: Expectations, Enacted Professionalism and Evolving Roles

What is the role of a professor? How does someone achieve professorial status? What do non-professorial colleagues think about professors? How do professors themselves perceive their roles? What are the bases of these perceptions, and what are their implications for the professoriate's evolving role both within the neoliberal university, and in the approaching post-neoliberal era?

Professors as Academic Leaders draws on a wealth of data not only to explore what it is to be a professor but ...