amy scott metcalfe assistant professor, higher education
department of educational studies, ubc




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2009
Dr. Amy Scott Metcalfe is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia.

See Research for Dr. Metcalfe's research statement.

Dr. Metcalfe lives in Vancouver with her husband, Jason. When not behind a computer or at work, Dr. Metcalfe might be caught browsing used bookstores and record shops, musing over local produce at farmers' markets, or enjoying some recreational photography.

Below is an abbreviated
CV.


EDUCATION
2004   Ph.D.; Higher Education; University of Arizona
1994   M.A.; Art History; University of Arizona
1990   B.A.; Classics; University of Arizona

CURRENT POSITION
2005-Present  
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Studies, The University of British Columbia

RESEARCH CENTRE AFFILIATIONS
Centre for Policy Studies in Higher Education and Training

Centre for Women's and Gender Studies
Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


Metcalfe, A. S. (in press). Revisiting academic capitalism in Canada: No longer the exception. The Journal of Higher Education.

Hart, J. & Metcalfe, A. S. (in press). Whose Web of Knowledge ™ is it anyway? The impact of feminist higher education articles on the field and beyond. The Journal of Higher Education.

Metcalfe, A. S. (in press). Examining the trilateral networks of the triple helix: Intermediating organizations and academy-industry-government relations. Critical Sociology.

Metcalfe, A. S. & Slaughter, S. (in press). Academic capitalism. In Banks, B. J. (Ed.), Gender and higher education.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press.


Metcalfe, A. S. (2009). The geography of access and excellence: Spatial diversity in higher education system design. Higher Education, 58(2), 205-220.

Finkelstein, M., Galaz-Fontes, J., & Metcalfe, A. S. (2009). Changing employment relationships in North America: Academic work in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. In J. Enders & E. de Weert (Eds.), The changing face of academic life: Analytical and comparative perspectives, pp. 218-247. London: Palgrave.

Mars, M. M. & Metcalfe, A. S. (2009). The entrepreneurial domains of American higher education. ASHE Higher Education Report Series, 34(5). San Francisco: Wiley Company/Jossey-Bass. http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470479930.html

Timmerman, N. & Metcalfe, A. S. (2009). From policy to pedagogy: The implications of sustainability policy on sustainability pedagogy in higher education. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 39(1), 45-60.

Metcalfe, A. S. & Fenwick, T. (2009).
Knowledge for whose society? Knowledge production, higher education, and federal policy in Canada. Higher Education, 57(2), 209-225. http://www.springerlink.com/content/213404w264n9qn00/

Metcalfe, A. S. (2008). The changing academic profession in Canada: Exploring themes of relevance, internationalization, and management. In, Report of the International Conference on the Changing Academic Profession, RIHE International Seminar Reports, no. 12, pp. 57-73. Hiroshima, Japan: Research Institute for Higher Education.

Metcalfe, A. S. (2008). The political economy of knowledge management in higher education. In Jennex, M. E. (Ed.), Knowledge management: Concepts, methodologies, tools, and applications, pp. 2301-2313. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference.

Metcalfe, A. S. (2008). Theorizing research policy: A framework for higher education. In J. C. Smart (Ed.), Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, pp. 241-276. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/q76360586u02781n/

Metcalfe, A. S. & Slaughter, S. (2008). The differential effects of academic capitalism on women in the academy. In Glazer-Raymo (Ed.), Unfinished agendas: New and continuing gender challenges in higher education, pp. 80-111. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.

Metcalfe, A. S. (2007). Research policy studies: Between science and higher education. Higher Education Perspectives, 3(2), 11-19.
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/hep/article/view/987

Metcalfe, A. S. & Slaughter, S. (2007). Academic capitalism. In Banks, B. (Ed.), Gender and education: An encyclopedia, pp. 7-13. New York: Greenwood Press. 

Metcalfe, A. S. (2006). The corporate partners of higher education associations: A social network analysis. Industry and Innovation, 13(4), 459 - 479.  

Metcalfe, A. S. (Ed). (2006). Knowledge management and higher education: A critical analysis. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. 
http://igi-global.com/books/details.asp?id=5054

Santos, J., Metcalfe, A. S., Guillen, S., & Rhodes, T. (2006). The road to higher education: Closing the participation gaps for Arizona minority students. Report for the Arizona Minority Education Policy Analysis Center (AMEPAC). 47 pages.  

Wagoner, R., .Metcalfe, A. S. & Olaore, I. (2005). Fiscal reality and academic quality: Part-time faculty and the challenge to organizational culture at community colleges. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 29(1): 25-44.
   
Metcalfe, A. S., Diaz, V., & Wagoner, R. (2003). Academe, technology, society, and the market: Four frames of reference for copyright and fair use. Portal--Libraries And The Academy, 3(2): 191-206.


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