TY - CHAP
T1 - ‘Finding Your People’
T2 - The Role of Networks in Pracademic Identity Construction
AU - Taylor, Helen
PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - This chapter will consider the role of networks in enabling the construction of identity in a pracademic context. Focussing on early career pracademics, it uses the social model of identity construction to argue that ‘finding your people’ is an important part of supporting individuals to create a future sense of self. Proposing that early career pracademics occupy two liminal spaces of identity – between practice and academia and between student and professional/expert – it outlines the role of learned societies in supporting individuals to embrace the positivity of having multiple elements of identity and use this to create a robust conception of the self.
AB - This chapter will consider the role of networks in enabling the construction of identity in a pracademic context. Focussing on early career pracademics, it uses the social model of identity construction to argue that ‘finding your people’ is an important part of supporting individuals to create a future sense of self. Proposing that early career pracademics occupy two liminal spaces of identity – between practice and academia and between student and professional/expert – it outlines the role of learned societies in supporting individuals to embrace the positivity of having multiple elements of identity and use this to create a robust conception of the self.
KW - professional development
KW - Pracademic transitions
KW - Knowledge transfer partnership
KW - early career researchers
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783031337451
VL - 13
T3 - Knowledge Studies in Higher Education
SP - 85
EP - 97
BT - Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia
A2 - Dickinson, Jill
A2 - Griffiths, Teri-Lisa
PB - Springer
ER -