Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers: Unpacking the Post-PhD Experience 1st Edition Lynn Mcalpine

Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers: Unpacking the Post-PhD Experience – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781349952861,9781349952878,1349952869,1349952877

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1349952869
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1349952861
• Author(s): Lynn McAlpine, Cheryl Amundsen

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.

Table contents:

1. Part I
Part Frontmatter
Chapter 1: Overview
Chapter 2: The Global Context
2. Part II
Part Frontmatter
Chapter 3: Identity-Trajectory
Chapter 4: Structure and Agency Agency and structure Chapter 4 Structure and agency Chapter 4 Revisited
Conclusion and Implications
3. Part III
Part Frontmatter
Chapter 5: Post-PhD Researchers Post-PhD researcher careers Chapter 5 —What is in the Cards?
Chapter 6: Choosing to Invest in a Teaching-Only Position
Chapter 7: Research-Teaching Academics—The Road to Stability Research-teaching positions Chapter 7
Chapter 8: Electing an Alternate Future: Professionals, Research Professionals, and Academic Professionals Alternate careers Chapter 8
Conclusion and Implications
4. Part IV
Part Frontmatter
Chapter 9: Our Experience of Narrative Narrative methodology Chapter 9
Chapter 10: Ways of Capturing and Representing Experience Data collection Chapter 10
Chapter 11: Ways of Displaying and Analyzing Stories Reporting findings Chapter 11 Data display Chapter 11 Data analysis Chapter 11
Conclusions and Implications

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