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dc.contributor.authorBennett, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorHobson, Julia
dc.contributor.authorJones, Angela
dc.contributor.authorMartin-Lynch, Pamela
dc.contributor.authorScutt, Cecily
dc.contributor.authorStrehlow, Karin
dc.contributor.authorVeitch, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-29T09:19:52Z
dc.date.available2020-01-29T09:19:52Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationBennett, R. and Hobson, J. and Jones, A. and Martin-Lynch, P. and Scutt, C. and Strehlow, K. and Veitch, S. 2015. Being chimaera: a monstrous identity for SoTL academics. Higher Education Research & Development. 35 (2): pp. 217-228.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77773
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07294360.2015.1087473
dc.description.abstract

Lurking on the fringes of university culture are academic identities that do not fit into the usual disciplinary communities. Aiming to explore the experience of ‘being academic’ when not linked directly to a discipline, this paper examines the stories of a diverse group of SoTL scholars who work in a centralised multi-campus academic skills support centre in an Australian university. Framed as group auto-ethnography, the paper inquires into the everyday experience of these academics through narrative analysis of multiple first-person accounts and makes apparent the monstrousness of de-affiliated academic identities. Despite diverse disciplinary backgrounds, the author-participants found that they now shared a tripartite academic identity formed through the negotiation of three roles: the teacher, the disciplinarian, and the educational researcher. Using the chimaera, a mythical three-headed monster as an organising metaphor, this paper aims to provide agency and visibility for often under-represented and unacknowledged academic identities.

dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.titleBeing chimaera: a monstrous identity for SoTL academics
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume35
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.issn0729-4360
dcterms.source.titleHigher Education Research & Development
dc.date.updated2020-01-29T09:19:52Z
curtin.departmentFBL Faculty Operations
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curtin.facultyFaculty of Business and Law


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