Copyright

Mark Nichols

Published On

2023-08-18

Page Range

pp. 155–172

Language

  • English

Print Length

18 pages

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12. Writing in the Margins: Maintaining a Scholarly Voice as an Executive

Chapter of: Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field(pp. 155–172)
Not all researchers work to the requirement of outputs or have the luxury of dedicated writing time. How do those roaming the academic wilderness, on the margins of scholarship, find their bearings for publishing? It is not easy straddling the two connected yet seemingly independent worlds of management and research, but it can be done. Writing and researching can find generous space in the margins of managerial responsibility. Research motivated by need can both enrich decision-making, lead to further research, and provide the basis for scholarly writing.

Contributors

Mark Nichols

(author)
Executive Director, Learning Design & Development at Open Polytechnic
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8131-6562

Mark Nichols is, at time of writing, executive director of learning design & development at Open Polytechnic, a subsidiary of Te Pūkenga in New Zealand. Mark is a principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) fellow, and he has served on the executive committees of the Flexible Learning Association of New Zealand (FLANZ), Australasian Society for Computers in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE), and currently the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE). His research work includes outputs related to studying on screen, student retention, indigenous courseware development, teaching and learning models, and open, distance and flexible (ODFL) systems and change. Mark hosts the Leaders & Legends of Online Learning podcast.