”Why I don’t want to be an academic anymore?” When academic identity contributes to academic career attrition

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F23%3A00554589" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/23:00554589 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/68378025:_____/23:00554589

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-022-00826-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-022-00826-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01154-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10734-023-01154-1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

”Why I don’t want to be an academic anymore?” When academic identity contributes to academic career attrition

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The study focuses on academic career attrition in the context of neoliberal academia and science policies emphasizing the need for excellence and social responsibility in academic production. The goal is to understand the relation between the development of academic identity and attrition among those who have left the academic path up to five years after PhD completion, with acknowledgement of the effect that academic identity has on academic career ambitions. Based on 28 narrative interviews with former academics from various research fields, we identified four trajectories of academic identity development (one of stable academic identity and three of lost academic identity), four narratives of attrition (disillusionment, a search for new purpose, refusal to sacrifice personal life and academic inadequacy) that explain these trajectories, and three ideals of 'proper academic' (humanist, leader, absolute academic) that are reflected in these narratives. We conclude that the academic environment creates an academic identity paradox in which not only the loss of or obstacles to developing an academic identity but also its strength and stability can weaken academic career ambitions and contribute to attrition because of the need to perform only excellent academic work. The paradox seems to relate to the high-performance culture of neoliberal academia and to the specific gender aspects of the STEM field because it appeared to function differently in regard to discipline and gender. We show that neoliberal academia, despite the ideals of current science policies, loses academics caring for these ideals in STEM fields, especially women.

Název v anglickém jazyce

”Why I don’t want to be an academic anymore?” When academic identity contributes to academic career attrition

Popis výsledku anglicky

The study focuses on academic career attrition in the context of neoliberal academia and science policies emphasizing the need for excellence and social responsibility in academic production. The goal is to understand the relation between the development of academic identity and attrition among those who have left the academic path up to five years after PhD completion, with acknowledgement of the effect that academic identity has on academic career ambitions. Based on 28 narrative interviews with former academics from various research fields, we identified four trajectories of academic identity development (one of stable academic identity and three of lost academic identity), four narratives of attrition (disillusionment, a search for new purpose, refusal to sacrifice personal life and academic inadequacy) that explain these trajectories, and three ideals of 'proper academic' (humanist, leader, absolute academic) that are reflected in these narratives. We conclude that the academic environment creates an academic identity paradox in which not only the loss of or obstacles to developing an academic identity but also its strength and stability can weaken academic career ambitions and contribute to attrition because of the need to perform only excellent academic work. The paradox seems to relate to the high-performance culture of neoliberal academia and to the specific gender aspects of the STEM field because it appeared to function differently in regard to discipline and gender. We show that neoliberal academia, despite the ideals of current science policies, loses academics caring for these ideals in STEM fields, especially women.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA20-13732S" target="_blank" >GA20-13732S: Excelentní výzkum mezi jednotlivcem, institucí a diskurzem: Kolaborativní konstrukce výzkumné produktivity na výzkumných institucích</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Higher Education

ISSN

0018-1560

e-ISSN

1573-174X

Svazek periodika

85

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

141-156

Kód UT WoS článku

000757324400004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85124772348