It’s a Bittersweet Symphony, this Life: Fragile Academic Selves and Insecure Identities at Work

By David Knights, C. Clarke. 2014

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Identity, mental health and work: How employees with mental health conditions recount stigma and the pejorative discourse of mental illness (2018, result): “In accordance with other studies that have demonstrated the fluid, insecure, unstable, fragile, and even anxious (Knights and Clarke, 2014) or contradictory nature of identity construction (Collinson, 2003), this study similarly emphasizes the multiplicities and nuances of the strategies through whi”
Occupational limbo, transitional liminality and permanent liminality: New conceptual distinctions (2017, methodology): “Prior research (e.g. Clarke and Knights, 2015; Knights and Clarke, 2013; Lorenz, 2012; Sparkes, 2007) highlights the de facto, if not de jure, situation that it is research performance and not teaching that ‘counts’ as ‘promotion-worthy’, often at the expense of teaching and other student-related ac”
The Performative University: ‘Targets’, ‘Terror’ and ‘Taking Back Freedom’ in Academia (2020, background): “This anxiety has been exasperated by an increasing precariousness of university work, in which low-paid, high-stress temporary staff appointments gradually have replaced existing tenured staff positions and in which academic identities become insecure and fragile (Knights and Clarke, 2014).”
The neurotic academic: anxiety, casualisation, and governance in the neoliberalising university (2018, background): “…on employees’ time; and the imposition of processes of audit, such as the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) (see Barcan 2013, Gill 2013, 2014, Baron 2014, Knowles and Burrows 2014, Sullivan and Simon 2014, Davies 2014b, Berg et al. 2016, Pereira 2017).”
What triggers imposter phenomenon among academic faculty? A critical incident study exploring antecedents, coping, and development opportunities (2017, background): “Feeling like an imposter was also one of three main areas of insecurity that the UK business faculty described as adversely impacting their identity development (Knights and Clarke 2014).”