Identity-trajectories of early career researchers : unpacking the post-PhD experience / Lynn McAlpine, Cheryl Amundsen.
McAlpine, Lynn, 1948- author.; Amundsen, Cheryl, author.
2018
LB2326.3 .M35 2018eb
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Title Identity-trajectories of early career researchers : unpacking the post-PhD experience / Lynn McAlpine, Cheryl Amundsen.
Author McAlpine, Lynn, 1948- author.
ISBN 9781349952878 (electronic book)
1349952877 (electronic book)
9781349952861
1349952869
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95287-8
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-349-95287-8 doi
Call Number LB2326.3 .M35 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.007
Summary The book asks how we can make sense of career paths for PhD graduates, something that has rarely been systematically studied. It offers a coherent synthesis of the empirically-based insights that arose from the experiences of 48 early career researchers, who were participants in a 10-year qualitative longitudinal research program. The book has the power to inform other researchers' conceptual and methodological approaches to the study of post-PhD career trajectories. The authors draw on the conceptual lens of 'identity-trajectory', which emerged from their research program, to examine the decision-making processes underpinning the careers of PhD graduates, whether contingent researchers and teachers, assistant professors within the academy or professionals elsewhere. The book highlights the role of personal agency in negotiating academic and non-academic work and careers within broader personal lives. It will be compelling reading for researchers and students working in the areas of Education and Sociology, particularly those with an interest in examining career development and decision-making.
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PART I. INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Overview
Chapter 2. The Global Context
PART II. CONCEPTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY
Chapter 3. Identity-Trajectory
Chapter 4. Structure and Agency Revisited
PART III. EMPIRICALLY-BASED INSIGHTS INTO ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC WORK
Chapter 5. Post-PhD Researchers: What's in the Cards?
Chapter 6. Choosing to Invest in a Teaching-Only Position
Chapter 7. Research-Teaching Academics: The Road to Stability
Chapter 8. Electing an Alternate Future: Professionals, Research Professionals and Academic Professionals
PART IV. METHODOLOGICAL CREATIVITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Chapter 9. Our Experience of Narrative
Chapter 10. Ways of Capturing and Representing Experience
Chapter 11. Ways of Displaying and Analysing Stories.

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