Blurred Boundaries: What It Means To Be an Early Career Faculty Member During a Pandemic

Yu Xia, Stephanie Cutler, Cassandra McCall

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Abstract

Early career faculty are undergoing a stressful transition period and actively negotiating their professional identity. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the daily activities in early career faculty's personal and professional lives and thus complicated the negotiation process. This study explores how engineering faculty members redefine and reconceptualize what it means to be in their early career during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through an emergent qualitative coding technique, we identified two themes: 1) the blurring of personal and professional boundaries, and 2) the renegotiation of different identities. The findings offer insights into how to better support early career faculty and allow them to balance these different dimensions of their academic identities.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665462440
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022 - Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: Oct 8 2022Oct 11 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
Volume2022-October
ISSN (Print)1539-4565

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2022
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUppsala
Period10/8/2210/11/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Education
  • Computer Science Applications

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