From third space professional to first-generation academic: Navigating new identities

Fallin, Lee

Abstract

This chapter reflects on my transition from fresh graduate, student union bureaucrat, learning developer, and then to my first academic role as a Lecturer in Education Studies. I like to think of this as a story of perseverance, hard work and perhaps a smattering of good luck. More importantly, I think my story shows that there are multiple routes into an academic role, and increasingly, there is permeability between professional support roles within universities and the more traditional academic roles; and that gap might be smaller than we think.

Citation

Fallin, L. (2024). From third space professional to first-generation academic: Navigating new identities. In D. Conrad, & W. Archer (Eds.), Portraits of Academic Life in Higher Education: From Hiring to Retiring (216-229). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716117_018

• Online Publication Date: Dec 16, 2024
• Publication Date: Dec 18, 2024
• Deposit Date: Dec 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 17, 2025
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Pages: 216-229
• Book Title: Portraits of Academic Life in Higher Education: From Hiring to Retiring
• Chapter Number: 15
• ISBN: 9789004716094 ; 9789004716100
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716117_018
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• Contract Date: May 21, 2024