Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers Unpacking the Post-PhD Experience /

• Main Authors: McAlpine, Lynn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Amundsen, Cheryl (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Maturation (Psychology).; Career education.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Education-Research.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.; Personal Development.; Career Skills.; Research Methods in Education.

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 qualitativ...

Table of Contents:

• 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.