The changing face of academic life : analytical and comparative perspectives Based on new comparative and analytical frameworks this book provides a comprehensive and transnational account of major structural developments that are changing the traditional features of the academic profession. It examines the wider changes in higher education such as new governance models massification and marketization identity formation internationalization and globalization as well as new forms of knowledge production and their effects on academic life. This collection analyses the effects these changes will have on academic careers and on employment relationships and academic labour markets in Europe and America. Contents: Enders Jürgen Weert Egbert de: Introduction. PART I. Modernisation Processes and the Academic Profession (Neave Guy: The Academic Estate Revisited. Reflections on Academias Rapid Progress from the Capitoline Hill to the Tarpeian Rock. Enders Jürgen Boer Harry de Leisyte Liudvika: New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisted. Scott Peter: Markets and New Modes of Knowledge Production. Henkel Mary: Policy Change and the Challenge to Academic Identities. Marginson Simon: The Academic Professions in the Global Era). PART II. Academic Profession and the Academic Workplace (Musselin Christine: Profession Market and Organisation. How is Academia Regulated Weert Egbert de: The Organised Contradictions of Teaching and Research. Reshaping the Academic Profession. Kehm Barbara M. Doctoral Education. Pressures for Change and Modernisation. Fairweather James: Work Allocation and Rewards in Shaping Academic Work). PART III. Changing Employment Relations in Higher Education (Farnham David: Employment Relations in Europe. a Comparative and Critical Review. Finkelstein Martin J. Galaz Fontes Jesus F. Scott Metcalfe Amy: Changing Employment Relationships in North America. Academic Work in the United States Canada and Mexico). PART IV. Conclusion (Enders Jürgen Weert Egbert de: Towards a T shaped Profession. Academic Work and Career in the Knowledge Society) (HoF text adopted)