Identity-Trajectories of Early Career Researchers: Unpacking the Post-PhD Experience

PART I. INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1. Overview.- Chapter 2. The Global Context.- PART II. CONCEPTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY.- Chapter 3. Identity-Trajectory.- Chapter 4. Structure and Agency Revisited.- PART III. EMPIRICALLY-BASED INSIGHTS INTO ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC WORK.- Chapter 5. Post-PhD Researchers: What's in the Cards?.- Chapter 6. Choosing to Invest in a Teaching-Only Position.- Chapter 7. Research-Teaching Academics: The Road to Stability.- Chapter 8. Electing an Alternate Future: Professionals, Research Professionals and Academic Professionals.- PART IV. METHODOLOGICAL CREATIVITY AND TRANSPARENCY.- Chapter 9. Our Experience of Narrative.- Chapter 10. Ways of Capturing and Representing Experience.- Chapter 11. Ways of Displaying and Analysing Stories.