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The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Explores experiences, feelings, and understandings of imposterism in higher education and beyond

  • Questions for whom identifying as an imposter is a choice

  • Asks how imposterism can relate to entrenched inequalities

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Situating Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education

    • Maddie Breeze, Michelle Addison, Yvette Taylor
    Pages 1-16
  3. Imposing Institutions—Imposters Across the Career Course

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-210
    2. Sprinting in Glass Slippers: Fairy Tales as Resistance to Imposter Syndrome in Academia

      • John Hoben, Cecile Badenhorst, Sarah Pickett
      Pages 211-224
    3. Restorying Imposter Syndrome in the Early Career Stage: Reflections, Recognitions and Resistance

      • Charlotte Morris, Laila Kadiwal, Kathryn Telling, Wendy Ashall, Jill Kirby, Shadreck Mwale
      Pages 225-240
    4. Formalised Peer-Support for Early Career Researchers: Potential for Resistance and Genuine Exchanges

      • Virginie Thériault, Anna Beck, Stella Mouroutsou, Jakob Billmayer
      Pages 241-257

About this book

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.


Keywords

  • Imposter syndrome
  • Sense of belonging
  • Identity within Higher Education
  • Higher Education and Neoliberalism
  • Access to education

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Durham University, Durham, UK

    Michelle Addison

  • Sociology and Public Sociology, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

    Maddie Breeze

  • School of Education, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

    Yvette Taylor

About the editors

Michelle Addison is Assistant Professor at Durham University, UK. Michelle's research is concerned with inequality and a long-term vision of social justice for those facing the greatest social disadvantages in society.

 

Maddie Breeze is Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She researches inequalities in universities, including via imposter syndrome, widening participation, and queer/feminist approaches to higher education.

 

Yvette Taylor is Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is a feminist sociologist and researches intersecting social and educational inequalities, including manifestations of gender, social class and sexuality.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education

  • Editors: Michelle Addison, Maddie Breeze, Yvette Taylor

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86570-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86569-6Published: 12 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86572-6Due: 26 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86570-2Published: 11 April 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 638

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Higher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Sociology of Work, Philosophy of Education

Buying options

eBook USD 189.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-86570-2
  • Instant PDF download
  • Readable on all devices
  • Own it forever
  • Exclusive offer for individuals only
  • Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout
Softcover Book USD 249.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
This title has not yet been released. You may pre-order it now and we will ship your order when it is published on 26 Apr 2023.
Hardcover Book USD 249.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)