{"product_id":"challenging-approaches-to-academic-career-making","title":"Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making","description":"Against a background of changing patterns of academic labour in the UK and other English speaking countries, this book draws on empirical research which identifies a shift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers in higher education. This has resulted in what the authors describe as ‘concertina-like’ careers, in which individuals stretch the spaces and timescales available to them. Underpinning this process, the concept of ‘career scripts’ shows how the career paths of individuals may be informed by formal career structures (\u003ci\u003eInstitutional scripts\u003c\/i\u003e) but also by activity associated with professional practice (\u003ci\u003ePractice scripts), \u003c\/i\u003eand by personal strengths, interests and commitments (\u003ci\u003eInternal scripts\u003c\/i\u003e). This has led to new forms of activity, within both the \u003ci\u003eformal institutional economy\u003c\/i\u003e, including promotion criteria and prescribed career pathways, and \u003ci\u003ethe informal institutional economy\u003c\/i\u003e, represented by personal interests and initiatives, professional relationships and networks. The ‘concertina’ process enables individuals to address a series of common misalignments and disjunctures within \u003ci\u003eformal institutional economies\u003c\/i\u003e, including those associated with disciplinary and departmental affiliations, job profiles, progression criteria, and work allocation models. The book also explores directions that academic careers may take in the future, and how institutions might adapt to these changes.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223650619736,"sku":"9781350282537","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350282537_a5119e9f-1e30-434d-8b5a-456d4a020172.jpg?v=1770876045","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/challenging-approaches-to-academic-career-making","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}