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Sideways career moves are one way to deal with academia’s contingencies. One ‘adjacent possible’ career in the academy is learning and teaching development, a field dominated by women and often positioned as caring work. Academics who make a study of academia tend to gravitate to these roles as they offer teaching opportunities, but learning and teaching development can be a career trap.
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Mewburn, I. (2019). How to Fall into a Career Trap (Without Even Realising). In: Murray, R., Mifsud, D. (eds) The Positioning and Making of Female Professors. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26187-0_11
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