This is an EvidenceNet summary of a LFHE research project on departmental leadership of teaching in research-intensive university environments by Graham Gibbs et al.
Departments in research-intensive environments are often characterised by "traditional” teaching’. In research-intensive institutions where ‘the collegial organisational culture mitigates against bureaucratic and corporate approaches to management’ progress in implementing institutional learning and teaching strategies has been relatively slow (pg 4). In ‘collegial research-intensive universities with highly devolved organisational structures departments and programmes are the key organisational units when it comes to understanding change’ (pg 4). To understand the development of teaching in researchintensive contexts it is necessary to study departmental leadership of teaching.
