Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making
Drawing on empirical research, this book develops the concept of career scripts to show how contemporary academic faculty in the UK and other English-speaking countries approach their roles and careers. The career paths of individuals may be informed by personal strengths, interests and commitments, by activity associated with professional practice (represented by Practice scripts), and by formal career structures (represented by Institutional scripts). Internal and Practice scripts have in turban led to new forms of activity, within both formal and informal institutional economies. Whereas the formal economy is represented by, for example, promotion criteria and career pathways, with visible, quantifiable markers, the informal economy is represented by personal interests and initiatives, together with professional relationships and networks that may be unique to the individual.

This book shows how, by drawing on Internal and Practice scripts, individuals develop concertina-like careers, stretching the spaces and timescales available to them. At the same time, they are able to address misalignments and disjunctures that they encounter, including those associated with disciplinary and departmental affiliations, job profiles, progression criteria, and work allocation models. As a result, the authors identify a shift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers.

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Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making
Drawing on empirical research, this book develops the concept of career scripts to show how contemporary academic faculty in the UK and other English-speaking countries approach their roles and careers. The career paths of individuals may be informed by personal strengths, interests and commitments, by activity associated with professional practice (represented by Practice scripts), and by formal career structures (represented by Institutional scripts). Internal and Practice scripts have in turban led to new forms of activity, within both formal and informal institutional economies. Whereas the formal economy is represented by, for example, promotion criteria and career pathways, with visible, quantifiable markers, the informal economy is represented by personal interests and initiatives, together with professional relationships and networks that may be unique to the individual.

This book shows how, by drawing on Internal and Practice scripts, individuals develop concertina-like careers, stretching the spaces and timescales available to them. At the same time, they are able to address misalignments and disjunctures that they encounter, including those associated with disciplinary and departmental affiliations, job profiles, progression criteria, and work allocation models. As a result, the authors identify a shift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers.

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Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making

Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making

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Drawing on empirical research, this book develops the concept of career scripts to show how contemporary academic faculty in the UK and other English-speaking countries approach their roles and careers. The career paths of individuals may be informed by personal strengths, interests and commitments, by activity associated with professional practice (represented by Practice scripts), and by formal career structures (represented by Institutional scripts). Internal and Practice scripts have in turban led to new forms of activity, within both formal and informal institutional economies. Whereas the formal economy is represented by, for example, promotion criteria and career pathways, with visible, quantifiable markers, the informal economy is represented by personal interests and initiatives, together with professional relationships and networks that may be unique to the individual.

This book shows how, by drawing on Internal and Practice scripts, individuals develop concertina-like careers, stretching the spaces and timescales available to them. At the same time, they are able to address misalignments and disjunctures that they encounter, including those associated with disciplinary and departmental affiliations, job profiles, progression criteria, and work allocation models. As a result, the authors identify a shift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350282537
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/04/2023
Series: Bloomsbury Higher Education Research
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Celia Whitchurch is Associate Professor at the Centre for Global Higher Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

William Locke is Professor and Director of the Melbourbane Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourbane, Australia.

Giulio Marini is Teaching Fellow in the Social Science Research Institute at University College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Authors
1. The Changing Parameters of Academic Work
2. Academic Career Trajectories and Aspirations
3. The Study and Early Findings
4. The Significance of Career Scripts
5. The Rise of the 'Concertina' Career
6. Negotiating Misalignments and Disjunctures
7. Whither the Academic Profession?
8. Rethinking Academic Careers in a Post-Pandemic World
Appendix 1: Survey Questionnaire
Appendix 2: Topic Guide for First Round of Interviews Autumn 2017 to Spring 2018
Appendix 3: Topic Guide for Second Round of Interviews Autumn 2019 to Spring 2020
References
Index

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