Changing relationships between government and the higher education system have created
a wide range of new tasks within universities. Many have been adopted by an emerging …

Diversity and mobility in education and work present a paramount challenge that needs
better conceptualization in educational theory. This challenge has been addressed by …

Higher education as a field of research and a broad topic for investigation continues to grow;
however, several topics remain less explicated than those about core university activities …

Although a growing literature explores occupational identity, or the overlap between “who
we are” and “what we do,” this literature has not fully considered how occupational identity …

The interview is a popular technique within social sciences research. In the interview we
have a method that can be used with different levels of structure; in a range of …

This article contributes new theoretical perspectives and empirical findings to the
conceptualization of occupational liminality. Here, we posit 'occupational limbo'as a state …

A 2004 paper,'The invisible workers' by Szekeres, lamented the 'invisibility'of professional
staff in Australian higher education. Even then, professional staff constituted more than half …

This article seeks to explore how older individuals negotiate and manage their self-identity
in relation to work while situated without paid employment. After reviewing the current …

Purpose Data science promises new opportunities for organizational decision-making. Data
scientists arguably play an important role in this regard and one can even observe a certain …

Staff are a university's key resource. Typically, research has concentrated on the contribution
of academic staff, and has largely overlooked the crucial role of professional staff. However …