Becoming an academic / Lynne McAlpine and Gerlese S. Åkerlind.

Academic practice in a changing international landscape -- Expectations and experiences of aspiring and early career academics -- Developing as a researcher post PhD -- Employment patterns in and beyond one's discipline -- Doctoral students and a future in academe? -- Living and imagining academic identities -- Rethinking preparations academic careers -- Commentaries from early career academics, developers and administrators

Academic work is changing. Becoming an Academic looks at the policies that are driving this change and the inadequacy of many programmes to prepare new academics for the realities of an academic career. The dominance of `skills training' is challenged in favour of also focusing on identity and purpose. This prespective is supported by research into the experiences of doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and newly-appointed academics in Australia, Canada, the UK and US.