The precarious academic : professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university

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Daddow, Angela, Owens, Alison Rhona, Clarkson, Georgia Lynne and Fredericks, Vanessa. (2023). The precarious academic : professional development and academic identity in the neoliberal university. International Journal for Academic Development. 29(3), pp. 308-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2023.2246443

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Authors	Daddow, Angela, Owens, Alison Rhona, Clarkson, Georgia Lynne and Fredericks, Vanessa
Abstract	Academics are constantly undergoing identity shifts in response to globalisation, marketisation and the impact of technology on academic work. This study investigates the impact of a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (GCHE) on academic identity development in an Australian University. GCHE graduates and their educators were interviewed to examine whether such extended and reflective professional development might support the negotiation of complex identity shifts. Findings indicated that academic identity development was enabled through this professional development by re-engaging individual academics in the diverse, traditional components of teaching, research and administration, working against the neoliberal trend of role-compartmentalisation for efficiency.
Keywords	Academic identity; academic development; neoliberal university; higher education; Graduate Certificate in Higher Education
Year	01 Jan 2023
Journal	International Journal for Academic Development
Journal citation	29 (3), pp. 308-321
Publisher	Routledge
ISSN	1470-1324
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2023.2246443
Web address (URL)	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1360144X.2023.2246443
Open access	Published as non-open access
Research or scholarly	Research
Page range	308-321
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Online	17 Aug 2023
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Accepted	06 Nov 2022
Deposited	22 Nov 2024
Additional information	© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publication	United States

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