This book takes readers on a journey into the experiences, struggles and triumphs of early career researchers in the humanities. Providing inspiration and deep insight, this book is a unique resource for postgraduate students, advanced degree and early career researchers, as well as their supervisors, in the humanities and beyond.
This book takes readers on a journey into the experiences, struggles and triumphs of early career researchers in the humanities.
In the spirit of guiding emerging scholars and researchers in higher education, the edited volume highlights lived experiences of researchers and ways to navigate the struggles and values of research in the humanities. Featuring 20 unique essays by emergent scholars who weave their personal lives into their research passions, this book offers a window into the experience of researchers in both professional and personal developments. The chapters are accompanied by letters of encouragement and advice from senior researchers who reflect on the role that research has played in their lives. Each chapter further engages with the literature relevant to the topic, firmly grounding the work in the academic field. The book also includes a section on how to use the book, providing prompts for discussion and reflection that encourage self-guided exploration and collaborative reading.
Providing inspiration and deep insight, this book is a unique resource for postgraduate students, advanced degree and early career researchers, as well as their supervisors, in the humanities and beyond.
Foreword Introduction: Passion and Purpose in the Humanities: a story of
emergence
1. Spinning a web of regenerative leadership Letter 1: Passion,
Purpose and Patience
2. The intention and reection of a passionate journey
through Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
3. Curating an Academic
Life with Good Vibes and Gongs Letter 2: A Holding Back, A Keeping Clear
4.
Laying Down a Path in Playing Letter 3: Philosophy found me!
5. Australian
Critical Indigenous Studies Letter 4: A short letter to ECRs on how to
approach a career as a researcher in Archaeology
6. How I became an academic
storyteller Letter 5: The Invitation of Curiosity
7. Lingering Images:
Future-Historical Narratives and Creative Potency Letter 6: Teaching is Space
Exploration
8. "When enough is enough!" An autoethnography of a Black
Migrant Woman's journey to academia Letter 7: Love the Unknown
9. Tributaries
Letter 8: Be Daring!
10. Financialization of Higher Education in Brazil
11.
From tree to rhizome: The story of wandering roots Letter 9: To Researchers
at the End of One World
12. My Neohumanist Calling
13. A Journey of
Curiosity, Discovery and Creativity Letter 10: To the luckiest people in the
world.
14. Social Media Maven Letter 11: Research as Co-Realization
15. My
Auto-ethnographical story: Academic life in an Australian masculine culture
as a female migrant from a feminine culture Letter 12: Finding your field
16.
Who knew that I, of all people, could be an academic, and even do well at it?
Letter 13: Working with Uncertainty
17. Cautionary tales for rising stars
It is a big constellation out there! Letter 14: Information Moves in an
Ecology
18. Rising Ideas with Heart
19. Disruption, art and sound research
Letter 15: Take a breath!
20. Growing a Research Family (An Interview)
Afterword
Marcus Bussey is Senior Lecturer in History and Futures, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Camila Mozzini-Alister is Lecturer in Sociology, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Bingxin Wang is an independent scholar working in both China and Australia.
Samantha Willcocks is an independent researcher based in Australia.
