Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers

Lynn McAlpine is Professor Emerita of Higher Education Development at the University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emerita at McGill University, Canada. Her research has consistently examined how individuals engage in and learn from the work they are doing, with the goal of providing pedagogical as well as research insights.    Cheryl Amundsen is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines. Her previous and ongoing research has focused on how academics make instructional decisions based on disciplinary knowledge and the use of inquiry as a method of professional development in teaching.

• 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.