How Organisational Change Influences Academic Work: The Academic Predicament Model for a Conducive Work Environment

Higher education institutions around the globe are facing complex issues that disrupt the usual roles and purposes of centres of learning and research. This book addresses the unprecedented effects of these global pressures, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on university work and the resulting opportunity for innovative disruption.

Sureetha De Silva has taught Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary students and has worked in Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka. She has been a librarian at the British Council Library and has worked as a research librarian within the Australian university sector. She is a freelance writer and a translator in English and Sinhalese.

Donna Pendergast is Dean and Head of the School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University. Beginning as a secondary teacher and working in universities for over two decades, Donna received the Vice-Chancellor’s 2016 Research Supervision Award for Excellence and the ACEL 2018 Miller-Grassie Award for Outstanding Leadership in Education.

Christopher Klopper is Dean, Australian College of the Professions, Australia. His career, spanning over 25 years, has afforded him 10 years of experience as a music teacher and curriculum leader in South Africa, and 15 years as a teacher educator and leader of learning and teaching in Australian higher education.