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Navigating the career transition from industry to academia
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Wilson, M and Wood, L and Solomonides, I and Dixon, PA and Goos, M, Navigating the career transition from industry to academia, Industry and Higher Education, 28, (1) pp. 5-13. ISSN 0950-4222 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.5367/ihe.2014.0189
Abstract
Transitions from ‘industry’ to ‘academia’ represent a unique type
of career change. Although such transitions are becoming increasingly
common in Australian universities and beyond, there is no coherent
framework for making sense of the multiple and intersecting factors
involved in these inter-domain movements. This form of occupational
transition challenges the traditional and increasingly outdated conception
of the linear academic tenure track. Thus, in order to revise the notion of
the tenure track and gain a fuller understanding of these career
trajectories, we must seek to understand the motivations for such
occupational movements as well as the short-term, medium-term and
long-term social, emotional and professional needs and preferences of
practitioner-academics having made this transition. This article presents
an attempt to re-think the imagery and language that have come to
characterize this type of career movement as well as the attitudes within
and between industry and academia. The authors advocate that
transitions from industry to academia do not require the dismantling of
linkages between the two fields, but rather are made more meaningful and
effective when pre-existing professional and personal linkages are
maintained and encouraged.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Research Group: | Business systems in context |
Research Field: | Business systems in context not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
Objective Group: | Other economic framework |
Objective Field: | Other economic framework not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Dixon, PA (Mr Peter Dixon) |
ID Code: | 92017 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | TSBE |
Deposited On: | 2014-06-04 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-31 |
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