Linda Evans is Professor of Leadership and Professional Learning at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously worked at the University of Warwick, UK.Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK.

In Academic Identities in Higher Education we are treated to a wonderfully accessible set of essays – most with an autobiographical component – by academics right across Europe. Implicitly and intriguingly, this volume opens the possibility that, for all of the instability in its formation, we may be seeing the emergence of a European academic identity. This is a special book and is essential reading for all those interested in academic identity, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Identities in transition - perspectives, trajectories and reformations, Jon Nixon (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)Part I: Frameworks and perspectives1. The academic condition: Unstable structures, ambivalent narratives, dislocated identities, Niilo Kauppi (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)2. Autonomisation and individualisation: Ideational shifts in European higher education, Tero Erkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Ossi Piironen (University of Helsinki, Finland)3. Academic identity formation: Reframing the long shadow of Europe, Terri Seddon (Monash University, Australia)Part II: Academic trajectories4. Swiss higher education: A particular showcase at the heart of the European landscape, Nicole Rege Colet (University of Strasbourg, France)5. Academic identity in Slovakia: A personal comparative view, Štefan Benuš (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia)6. The Scholarship of academic entrepreneurship in 21st century Europe: A Swedish relief carved from personal experiences, Eva M. Brodin (Lund University, Sweden)7. Predicaments of fusion and transformation: A journey from Georgia, Liana Beattie (Edge Hill University, UK)8. Competitiveness, elitism and neoliberal performativity policy: The formation of a Russell Group academic identity, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK)Part III: Formations and re-formations90. The challenges of the French ‘homo academicus’: Modernization, identities and the sense of justice, Romuald Normand (University of Strasbourg, France)10. High-flyers and underdogs: The polarisation of Finnish academic identities, Oili-Helena Ylijoki (University of Tampere, Finland) and Jani Ursin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)11. The changing conditions of academic identity: The Portuguese open university, Darlinda Moreira (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Luisa Lebres-Aires (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) and Susana Henriques (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)12. Policy, profession and person: The formation of reflexive academic identities in an Irish Institute of Technology, Carol O’Byrne (Waterford Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)13. Regulations, economics and the sociocultural: Academic identity formation in Greek higher education, Antigoni Papadimitriou (University of Oslo, Norway) Reflections: Academic identity and the changing European landscape, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK) Index

Linda Evans is Professor of Leadership and Professional Learning at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously worked at the University of Warwick, UK.Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK.

In Academic Identities in Higher Education we are treated to a wonderfully accessible set of essays – most with an autobiographical component – by academics right across Europe. Implicitly and intriguingly, this volume opens the possibility that, for all of the instability in its formation, we may be seeing the emergence of a European academic identity. This is a special book and is essential reading for all those interested in academic identity, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Identities in transition - perspectives, trajectories and reformations, Jon Nixon (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)Part I: Frameworks and perspectives1. The academic condition: Unstable structures, ambivalent narratives, dislocated identities, Niilo Kauppi (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)2. Autonomisation and individualisation: Ideational shifts in European higher education, Tero Erkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Ossi Piironen (University of Helsinki, Finland)3. Academic identity formation: Reframing the long shadow of Europe, Terri Seddon (Monash University, Australia)Part II: Academic trajectories4. Swiss higher education: A particular showcase at the heart of the European landscape, Nicole Rege Colet (University of Strasbourg, France)5. Academic identity in Slovakia: A personal comparative view, Štefan Benuš (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia)6. The Scholarship of academic entrepreneurship in 21st century Europe: A Swedish relief carved from personal experiences, Eva M. Brodin (Lund University, Sweden)7. Predicaments of fusion and transformation: A journey from Georgia, Liana Beattie (Edge Hill University, UK)8. Competitiveness, elitism and neoliberal performativity policy: The formation of a Russell Group academic identity, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK)Part III: Formations and re-formations90. The challenges of the French ‘homo academicus’: Modernization, identities and the sense of justice, Romuald Normand (University of Strasbourg, France)10. High-flyers and underdogs: The polarisation of Finnish academic identities, Oili-Helena Ylijoki (University of Tampere, Finland) and Jani Ursin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)11. The changing conditions of academic identity: The Portuguese open university, Darlinda Moreira (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Luisa Lebres-Aires (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) and Susana Henriques (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)12. Policy, profession and person: The formation of reflexive academic identities in an Irish Institute of Technology, Carol O’Byrne (Waterford Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)13. Regulations, economics and the sociocultural: Academic identity formation in Greek higher education, Antigoni Papadimitriou (University of Oslo, Norway) Reflections: Academic identity and the changing European landscape, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK) Index

Linda Evans is Professor of Leadership and Professional Learning at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously worked at the University of Warwick, UK.Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University, UK.

In Academic Identities in Higher Education we are treated to a wonderfully accessible set of essays – most with an autobiographical component – by academics right across Europe. Implicitly and intriguingly, this volume opens the possibility that, for all of the instability in its formation, we may be seeing the emergence of a European academic identity. This is a special book and is essential reading for all those interested in academic identity, and I recommend it wholeheartedly.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Identities in transition - perspectives, trajectories and reformations, Jon Nixon (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)Part I: Frameworks and perspectives1. The academic condition: Unstable structures, ambivalent narratives, dislocated identities, Niilo Kauppi (French National Centre for Scientific Research, France)2. Autonomisation and individualisation: Ideational shifts in European higher education, Tero Erkkila (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Ossi Piironen (University of Helsinki, Finland)3. Academic identity formation: Reframing the long shadow of Europe, Terri Seddon (Monash University, Australia)Part II: Academic trajectories4. Swiss higher education: A particular showcase at the heart of the European landscape, Nicole Rege Colet (University of Strasbourg, France)5. Academic identity in Slovakia: A personal comparative view, Štefan Benuš (Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia)6. The Scholarship of academic entrepreneurship in 21st century Europe: A Swedish relief carved from personal experiences, Eva M. Brodin (Lund University, Sweden)7. Predicaments of fusion and transformation: A journey from Georgia, Liana Beattie (Edge Hill University, UK)8. Competitiveness, elitism and neoliberal performativity policy: The formation of a Russell Group academic identity, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK)Part III: Formations and re-formations90. The challenges of the French ‘homo academicus’: Modernization, identities and the sense of justice, Romuald Normand (University of Strasbourg, France)10. High-flyers and underdogs: The polarisation of Finnish academic identities, Oili-Helena Ylijoki (University of Tampere, Finland) and Jani Ursin (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)11. The changing conditions of academic identity: The Portuguese open university, Darlinda Moreira (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Luisa Lebres-Aires (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) and Susana Henriques (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)12. Policy, profession and person: The formation of reflexive academic identities in an Irish Institute of Technology, Carol O’Byrne (Waterford Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland)13. Regulations, economics and the sociocultural: Academic identity formation in Greek higher education, Antigoni Papadimitriou (University of Oslo, Norway) Reflections: Academic identity and the changing European landscape, Linda Evans (University of Leeds, UK) Index