Changing academic identities in changing academic workplaces: learning from academicsa?? everyday professional writing practices

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In this article we examine issues of academic identity through the lens of academicsa?? everyday workplace writing, offering a complementary perspective to those already evident in the higher education research literature. Motivated by an interest in the relationship between routine writing and aspects of professional practice, we draw on data from interviews with 30 academics across three different universities. Our discussion is illustrated with excerpts from interview data, and is organised around three emerging themes: a??reconstructing academic identities in a shifting academic workplacea??, a??considering new articulations of disciplinaritya??, and a??moving on from the golden agea??. We conclude that the reconstruction of academic identities, through engagement with established and emerging workplace documents, may well be enabling academics to build new identities within the changing university.View full textDownload full textKeywordsacademic identity, academic practice, academic literacies, academic workplaceRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2011.560380