‘Finding Your People’: The Role of Networks in Pracademic Identity Construction

Helen Taylor

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8

‘Finding Your People’: The Role of Networks in Pracademic Identity Construction

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia
Editors	Jill Dickinson, Teri-Lisa Griffiths
Publisher	Springer
Pages	85-97
Volume	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031337468
ISBN (Print)	9783031337451
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2023

Publication series

Name	Knowledge Studies in Higher Education
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13
ISSN (Print)	2566-7106
ISSN (Electronic)	2566-8315

Keywords

professional development
Pracademic transitions
Knowledge transfer partnership
early career researchers

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10.1007/978-3-031-33746-8

Embargoed Document

Taylor, H. (2023) 'Finding my people the role of networks in pracademic identity construction' in Dickinson, J & Griffiths, T. (2023) Professional Development for Pracademics. Springer
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Embargo ends: 31/07/25

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‘Finding Your People’: The Role of Networks in Pracademic Identity Construction. / Taylor, Helen.
Professional Development for Practitioners in Academia. ed. / Jill Dickinson; Teri-Lisa Griffiths. Vol. 13 Springer, 2023. p. 85-97 (Knowledge Studies in Higher Education; Vol. 13).

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