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Imposter agony aunts: Ambivalent feminist advice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-12) Breeze, Maddie; Taylor, Yvette; Addison, Michelle; Addison, Michelle; Breeze, Maddie; Taylor, Yvette
Introduction: Situating imposter syndrome in higher education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-12) Breeze, Maddie; Addison, Michelle; Taylor, Yvette; Addison, Michelle; Breeze, Maddie; Taylor, Yvette
The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-12) Addison, Michelle; Breeze, Maddie; Taylor, Yvette; Addison, Michelle; Breeze, Maddie; Taylor, Yvette
This handbook explores feeling like an ‘imposter’ in higher education and what this can tell us about contemporary educational inequalities. Asking why imposter syndrome matters now, we investigate experiences of imposter syndrome across social locations, institutional positions, and intersecting inequalities. Our collection queries advice to fit-in with the university, and authors reflect on (not)belonging in, with and against educational institutions. The collection advances understandings of imposter syndrome as socially situated, in relation to entrenched inequalities and their recirculation in higher education. Chapters combine creative methods and linger on the figure of the ‘imposter’ - wary of both individualising and celebrating imposters as lucky, misfits, fraudsters, or failures, and critically interrogating the supposed universality of imposter syndrome.
The Sociologist’s Apprentice: An islander reflects on their academic training
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-04-12) Johnson, Karl; Addison, Michelle; Breeze, Maddie; Taylor, Yvette
Reconfiguring imposter syndrome from an individual to a public feeling involves questioning who can access higher education and who can claim a legitimate academic identity. The author reflects on their transition from a rural island working-class background to lecturing at a university in central Scotland, while critically questioning assumptions that successful and recognised academics must tick expected career development boxes and amend their presentation of self. By demonstrating how anxiety, imposterism and internal conflict mark the habitus and mental health of someone torn between trying to secure an academic career, following a mentor and honouring their own classed and place-based sense of identity the chapter contributes to current debates on the social and political dimensions of imposter syndrome in HE via the lens of apprenticeship.