Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: The Emergence of "Third Space" Professionals in UK Higher Education.
Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: The Emergence of "Third Space" Professionals in UK Higher Education.
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身份的转变和界限的模糊：英国高等教育中“第三空间”专业人士的出现。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1468-2273.2008.00387.x
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Celia Whitchurch
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作者：
Celia Whitchurch
本文增加了早期的评论，作者的角色和身份的变化，当代专业人员在英国高等教育（惠特彻奇，2004年; 2006年a; 2006年b），并建立在一个分类的专业人员身份有界，跨界，无界的特点（惠特彻奇，2008年，即将出版）。根据对联合王国、澳大利亚和美国54名专业管理人员的研究，报告描述了另一类混合型专业人员，他们具有混合背景和组合，包括专业和学术活动的要素。本文接着介绍了第三空间的概念，作为学术和专业领域之间的一个新兴领域，这是殖民地主要是由专业的形式较少的限制。这些发展对机构和个人的影响被认为是，并得出一些国际比较。最后，据认为，第三空间工作可能表明专业身份的未来趋势，这种趋势可能越来越多地与承担项目和管理导向作用的学术同事的身份相结合，因此，新形式的第三空间专业人员可能会继续出现。
This paper adds to earlier reviews by the author of the changing roles and identities of contemporary professional staff in UK higher education (Whitchurch, 2004; 2006a; 2006b), and builds on a categorisation of professional staff identities as having bounded, cross-boundary, and unbounded characteristics (Whitchurch, 2008, forthcoming). Drawing on a study of fifty-four professional managers in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, it describes a further category of blended professionals, who have mixed backgrounds and portfolios, comprising elements of both professional and academic activity. The paper goes on to introduce the concept of third space as an emergent territory between academic and professional domains, which is colonised primarily by less bounded forms of professional. The implications of these developments for institutions and for individuals are considered, and some international comparisons drawn. Finally, it is suggested that third space working may be indicative of future trends in professional identities, which may increasingly coalesce with those of academic colleagues who undertake project- and managementoriented roles, so that new forms of third space professional are likely to continue to emerge.