Navigating across Academic Labour Markets: A Bourdieusian Reflexive Narrative of a Chinese International Doctoral Graduate's Employment Experiences
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| Title: | Navigating across Academic Labour Markets: A Bourdieusian Reflexive Narrative of a Chinese International Doctoral Graduate's Employment Experiences |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Kun Dai (ORCID |
| Source: | Higher Education Research and Development. 2024 43(6):1243-1258. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Doctoral Degrees, Labor Market, Employment Potential, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Training, Education Work Relationship, Employment Experience, Attitudes, Job Search Methods |
| Geographic Terms: | China, Australia |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07294360.2024.2332262 |
| ISSN: | 0729-4360 1469-8366 |
| Abstract: | Much research has investigated international graduate employability in home "or" host countries. However, limited studies have accounted for such employability "across" the home and the host. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, this paper critically examined the first author's narrative of his employment experiences as a doctoral graduate navigating across Chinese and Australian academic fields after completing ten years of higher education and research training in Australia. While he encountered various challenges due to capital deficiency and habitus-field mismatch, he also reflexively learned to capitalise on his transnational academic dispositions and decode different logics of practice across different academic fields. Thus, he underwent constant changes of identity, agency, and belonging in his cross-field employment journey, which potentially shaped his transnational habitus. This Bourdieusian reflexive narrative contributes to research and practice on graduate employability and reflexivity from a sociological perspective. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2024 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1432005 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Much research has investigated international graduate employability in home "or" host countries. However, limited studies have accounted for such employability "across" the home and the host. Drawing on Bourdieu's relational and reflexive sociology, this paper critically examined the first author's narrative of his employment experiences as a doctoral graduate navigating across Chinese and Australian academic fields after completing ten years of higher education and research training in Australia. While he encountered various challenges due to capital deficiency and habitus-field mismatch, he also reflexively learned to capitalise on his transnational academic dispositions and decode different logics of practice across different academic fields. Thus, he underwent constant changes of identity, agency, and belonging in his cross-field employment journey, which potentially shaped his transnational habitus. This Bourdieusian reflexive narrative contributes to research and practice on graduate employability and reflexivity from a sociological perspective. |
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| ISSN: | 0729-4360 1469-8366 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07294360.2024.2332262 |
