This is us now. Collectively making sense of our new identities as parents and early career academics
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| Title: | This is us now. Collectively making sense of our new identities as parents and early career academics |
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| Authors: | Scholz, Frederike, Onderzoeker, Nijs, Sanne, Overig, Pekaar, Keri Anne, Overig, Pak, Karen, Overig, Beurden,van, Jeske, Overig, Bauwens, Robin, Overig, Spanouli, Andromachi, Overig, Yin Man Fong, Christine, Overig, Groenendaal,van den, Sjanne Marie, Overig, Batistic, Sasa, Overig |
| Contributors: | Organisaties in Digitale Transitie, Hogeschool Utrecht@@@Kenniscentrum Digital Business & Media |
| Source: | Culture and Organization. :1-19 |
| Publisher Information: | Hogeschool Utrecht, 2025. Taylor & Francis. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Subject Terms: | parents, early career academics, collective authoethnography, sensemaking, boundaries |
| Description: | In this paper, we draw on our subjective experiences as Early Career Academics (ECAs) at a Dutch University to demonstrate our complex relationship between academic life and parenthood. Building on the sensemaking literature, we employ a collective autoethnography to unveil six distinct new parent scripts that ECA parents, like us, adopt when navigating boundaries between work and non-work tasks in academia. Our scripts are dynamic, and full of emotions, showing our raw and unfiltered experiences of becoming mothers and fathers by reflecting on identity sensemaking processes that we undergo, as individuals and as a collective. We hope by writing differently and showing vulnerability our study can encourage more understanding of the complexity of new parenthood within academia, and at the same time stimulate further debates to challenge current structures that hinder ECAs from balancing their work and family lives by creating a more inclusive academic environment for all of us. |
| Document Type: | article |
| Language: | English |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | In this paper, we draw on our subjective experiences as Early Career Academics (ECAs) at a Dutch University to demonstrate our complex relationship between academic life and parenthood. Building on the sensemaking literature, we employ a collective autoethnography to unveil six distinct new parent scripts that ECA parents, like us, adopt when navigating boundaries between work and non-work tasks in academia. Our scripts are dynamic, and full of emotions, showing our raw and unfiltered experiences of becoming mothers and fathers by reflecting on identity sensemaking processes that we undergo, as individuals and as a collective. We hope by writing differently and showing vulnerability our study can encourage more understanding of the complexity of new parenthood within academia, and at the same time stimulate further debates to challenge current structures that hinder ECAs from balancing their work and family lives by creating a more inclusive academic environment for all of us. |
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