Developing a Research and Scholarship Framework: An Australian Christian Higher Education Case Study

Despite the ambiguity inherent in the terms ‘research’ and ‘scholarship’, both continue to play an important role in higher education in terms of regulatory requirements, measuring institutional achievement, and investment of time and other resources. It is often left to individual institutions and various interest groups to define their own understanding of the connection between the two. For Christian higher education providers with limited resources, a lack of government funding and a focus on broader community dissemination, scholarship has often taken precedence over research. Using an Australian case study, this chapter argues that a holistic understanding of both research and scholarship, and the relation between them, helps to orient institutional efforts towards positive impact and engagement for constituents and end-users.