
This book explores academic identity development in the 21st century university. Recognising dramatic shifts in academic practices and landscapes, the book pushes back on rising neoliberalism with a person-focused, culturally aware pathway for career development. Stories of the...

Chapter 1. A fruitcake imaginary?.- Chapter 2. Stories, games, language, imagination.- Chapter 3. Academia as unhomely habitus?.- Chapter 4. Teaching, research, service, self.- Chapter 5. Taking stock of identity during change.- Chapter 6. Personalising professionalism: balance,...