The development of engineering education research: a UK based case study

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Table 1. Interview participant information.

Participant Number	Disciplinary background	Career Stage	Institution Type	Job role	Experience in Industry
1	STEM	Early	Plate glass/Russell Group	Teaching Fellow	Yes
Russell Group	Teaching Fellow	Yes
2	STEM	Late	Unique	Research Professor	No
3	STEM	Mid	Russell Group	Education and Scholarship	Yes
4	STEM	Mid	Civic/ Red Brick	Teaching and Research/Scholarship	Yes
5	STEM	Late	Post 92	Research and Teaching (traditional academic)	Yes
6	STEM	Early	Rusell group	Teaching Fellow	No
7	STEM	Mid	Plate Glass	Senior Teaching Fellow	Yes
8	STEM	Mid	Civic/Red brick?	Teaching and Research (Scholarship)	Yes
9	STEM/ Engineering Education	Early	Plate glass	Teaching Fellow	No
10	STEM	Mid	Plate glass	Teaching Fellow	Yes
11	AHSS	Mid	Russell Group/ Red Brick	Teaching	No
12	STEM	Late	Red brick	Research Professor	No
13	STEM	Mid	Russell Group/ Red Brick	Teaching?	Yes
14	STEM	Late	Russell Group	PhD (Engineering Education)	Yes

Note: Early career refers to those who have been in their current academic role for less than five years, having either come from industry or progressed from academic studies/postdoctoral research careers.

Late career refers to academics who have progressed to leadership and management roles.

Mid-career is used for participants that fall between the two prior categories.

Within the UK there are over 160 HEIs, all of which can be categorised in several different ways.

The Russell Group: a group of the top 24 British research universities.

Red brick/Civic Universities: Established in mid-19th century, commonly formed by local industrialists, to meet growing demands for higher education and promote social mobility.

Plate glass universities: Formed between 1963 and 1992 as part of government recommendations to increase the number of HEIs. Generally considered as progressive.

Post 92 universities: Typically consist of polytechnics that were given university status in 1992 to remove the distinction between universities and polytechnic colleges.

Unique institutes: institutions which do not naturally fit into a typology, for example, private, self-governing institutions, or those offering online courses or specialising in postgraduate study.