It has been my pleasure to read and comment on the articles contained in this Special Issue
of the Journal of Professional Capital and Community on the topic of Pracademia: Exploring …

The term pracademic, which describes individuals with dual identities as both academics
and practitioners, is becoming increasingly common in global development circles …

Pracademics are professionals who combine two roles as scholars and practitioners.
Despite pracademics' unique contributions in connecting knowledge and practice for …

This paper explores the unique role of pracademics in bridging academic and practical
perspectives within international and development cooperation, using two case studies. The …

The decision to move from an established industry career to academia is, in most cases, one
that is not taken lightly, and the factors that contribute to this decision vary from person to …

This multi-disciplinary collection addresses issues relating to current or former practitioners
within the context of higher education. Drawing together a range of voices, the contributors …

This essay reflects on the satisfactions and challenges of early career researchers entering
the field of development work from an autoethnographic perspective. During my doctoral …

This paper is focused on the concepts of reflection, pracademics and Cognitive Apprentices
used within work-based learning contexts. A hermeneutic phenomenological dialogic …

This chapter begins by critically examining the origins and possibilities of the concepts of the
pracademic and pracademia as both an identity marker and space of operation respectively …

In this introductory chapter, we begin by providing a brief overview of pracademics within the
criminal justice context. We first delve into defining and understanding who a pracademic is …