Chinese English Lecturers’ Self-Identification as Researchers

Wangxin Peng (), Subadrah Madhawa Nair () and Walton Wider ()

Humanities and Social Sciences Letters, 2022, vol. 10, issue 3, 369-382

Abstract: Since the reform of the Chinese college title granting system in 2017, Chinese lecturers have been allowed to have different self-identification as researchers. This study aimed to investigate Chinese English lecturers’ self-identification as researchers and whether gender, age, academic qualification, title, teaching load, and top journal publications had significant influences on their self-identification as researchers. A questionnaire was employed to collect quantitative data from 612 Chinese English lecturers. The findings suggest that the lecturers had a relatively low self-identification as researchers and that all the independent variables had significant influences on their self-identification as researchers. The findings have the following implications. Firstly, colleges can encourage female, elderly, and non-publishing lecturers to do research by offering more incentives and research training. Secondly, colleges can implement favorable policies to encourage lecturers to pursue a doctoral degree. Thirdly, colleges can consider reducing the teaching load of the lecturers who wish to devote more time to research.

Keywords: Chinese colleges; English lecturers; Researcher identity; Self-identification as researchers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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