Linda Evans is Professor of Education at the University of Manchester, UK, and previously held professorial positions at the University of Leeds, UK, and the University of Warwick, UK.

• Part I: Contexts and Concepts 1. What Do We Know about Professors and Professorship?2. Professionalism: Examining the Concept3. Academic Leadership, Leaders and 'The Led' 4. Seeking Answers: Augmenting the Professor-Focused Knowledge BasePart II: The Perspectives of ‘The Led’ 5. Positive Perceptions of Professorial Academic Leadership6. Professorship That Falls Short7. The Bases of Assessments of Professorial Academic LeadershipPart III: The Professoriate’s Perspectives 8. Negotiating a Passage: Becoming a Professor in the UK Academy9. Doing Professorship in the Twenty-First-Century Academy10. Chasing the Ideal: Morale and Job Satisfaction in the ProfessoriatePart IV: Re-Shaping Professorial Professionalism11. Pressured Professionalism: Problematising Professorial Academic Leadership12. Re-Designing Twenty-First-Century ProfessorshipAppendix References Index

This is a worthwhile read for faculty and administrators. Administrators and their governing boards who read this book will further gain a fresh perspective on the impact of their policies. Evans’s book may be of particular interest for those who research job-related attitudes and leadership.