1. The development of research cultures within a Pakistani university: Analysing structure and agency
AHMAD SOHAIL LODHI
Lecturer at University of the Punjab, Pakistan
PhD candidate, University of Leeds, UK ;

2. What will I share? About the project
Journey to find Archer’s morphogenetic approach
My experiences of understanding the approach
The guiding role of the morphogenetic approach in this study
Lessons learnt

3. About the dish The University:
Regulated by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan but autonomous in articulating internal policies and practices
Teaching as a dominant element
Striving to promote research under the influence and support of HEC

4. About the dish
The focus of my project was to examine factors influencing the development of research cultures in two social sciences faculties in a Pakistani public university.

5. In search of the recipe Organisational culture
Committed to shared norms, values and assumptions
Do universities have an organisational culture?
Archer ‘s conception of culture
Heterogeneous ideas
Interplay between the ‘parts’ and the ‘people’

6. Understanding the Recipe
Difficult language and vocabulary
Interconnected concepts
Few empirical studies that used the morphogenetic approach
1 Building argument for theory . There is a need for a workbook for those who want to apply in other filed
2. Clear from name … communicate to other
3. Social theory …In other discipline
4. Interlinking concept ……difficult determining scope according to problem 4.

7. Nutritional value of the recipe
Conceptualizing the notion of research culture Ideational aspects of the model Choosing and developing instruments for data collection Informed by the stages of the morphogenetic cycle
Analytical distinction between culture and structure

8. Picking the Ingredients
Interview questions
People’s views and perceptions about research
e.g. it should be applied or pure etc.
What, why and how questions
Questionnaire item
How they shape the agential actions,
Official documents how agent shaped context
I have adequate time to conduct research (e.g., writing articles, books and presenting conference papers etc.)… SD D N A SA

9. Nutritional value of the recipe
Conceptualizing the notion of research culture
Choosing and developing instruments for data collection
Analyzing empirical data
the morphogenetic framework as template

10. Cooking
Periodisation to indicate the stages of the morphogenetic cycle
Relatively straightforward task T1
T2 (when new leadership took over the university)
T3 (when data was collected)

11. Cooking Articulation of Cultural and Structural emergent properties
Sometimes difficult to sustain analytical distinction between culture and structure e.g. teaching-research
Difficult task to maintain ‘analytical dualism’ while analysing interviews, especially, in case of cultural emergent properties
I deal it with cultural domain because present polices do not determine particular time for research as teaching
Indirect

12. Cooking Necessary and contingent relations
Mostly unproblematic to identify
Influences of regulatory body (HEC)
Discipline-specific influences on research practices
Complementary and contradictory relations
Easy to identify but difficult to handle

13. Re-thinking the recipe
Time-consuming process
Availability of literature about the context in relation to the problem
Long time span (T2-T3) is preferable
Knowledge about the context

14. Questions Please ! ! !