Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education

Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics that want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.

Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics who want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need to be and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.

Internationally placed contributors share personal stories of the various ways they have been made to feel out of place in the career path of academia, including accounts of discrimination, careerism, injustices, and the weight of bureaucracy. This book will connect individuals with shared experiences, helping others find comfort, strength, and community in their feelings of misfitting. The authors advocate for more inclusion and independence within academia, where individuals aren't forced into categories and are instead given the freedom to think differently and focus on the value they can bring.

This book is for all those involved in academia, especially those interested in a future that does not eject talented individuals because they might not fit in. Established field experts are encouraged to foster and take part in developing a sustainable and accepting research environment while doctoral students and PhD candidates are empowered to challenge the barriers, limits, and unfair treatment that is the status quo.

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Magnus Hoppe is an associate professor in business administration at Mälardalen University in Sweden.

Steffi Siegert is an assistant professor in business administration at Linnaeus University in Sweden.

Serdar Temiz is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering at Uppsala University.

Anton Hasselgren is a senior data analyst at Star Stable Entertainment.

Fatemeh Seifan is analytics team lead at Paradox Interactive.

Klappentext

Academic Misfits: Questioned Belongings in Higher Education presents powerful narratives, exploring the experiences of academics that want their voices to be heard. It highlights aspects of the academic world that need and should be changed to allow for more equitable experiences.

Inhalt

Section 1: Playing a different flute 1. Singing Lessons for the Lecturer 2. Dancing Through Shadows: A Journey from Academia to Career Coaching 3. Always coming home. A conversation with Sisyphus Section 2: Living by other standards 4. Like the Ugly Duckling. Lived Experiences of 'Misfitting' in the Classroom 5. God is a lobster: Of muteness and a lost sense of professional value in becoming an academic 6. Making an academic career without a reference Section 3: Adhering to a heart 7. Here's to the misfits: Academic misfitting and collegiality as resistance and subversion 8. Haunting dissonance: The inner conflict of a business school misfit 9. Misfitting together Section 4: Cherishing a whole life 10. Odd body out: the female pregnant body in the male intellectual domain 11. Academia, ready for the future or stuck in the past? - How the academic system promotes a patriarchist family picture 12. Forced to find a different fit: Cruel optimism, the academic precariat and third space hybrid identities Section 5: Being an academic misfit is not so bad