Engaging WIL : risk, trust, and complex contexts of academics’ communication with work integrated learning hosts /
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2021
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Burley, Kim-Ngan
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This research contributes to emerging scholarship on effective Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) stakeholder engagement in Australia by examining the communication practices of academics operating as everyday boundary spanners at the interface of their institutions and industry, non‐profit, and government sectors. The communication focus addresses a gap in WIL scholarship through a relational and dialogic perspective of sense‐making in complex systems providing a deeper understanding of effective engagement. This qualitative study collected data from in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 15 university academics. Analysis of the intersections between the key themes of complex contexts, risk, and trust finds that effective engagement is seated in introspective, local, detailed, and communicative processes where connections are valued, supported, and reinforced.
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University of South Australia. UniSA Creative.
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Thesis (PhD(Communication))--University of South Australia, 2021.
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Copyright 2021 Kim-Ngan Burley
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1 ethesis (xvi, 329 pages) :
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Bibliography: pages 293-318.
illustrations (chiefly colour)
Bibliography: pages 293-318.
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