Career Construction Theory and Life Writing
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 336894
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367550929
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume brings to fruition over 6 years of research, exploring ways of applying career construction theory to analysis of contemporary authorial careers and forms of professional writing. Over this period, the author has become the world’s leading authority on the application of career construction theory to various forms of life writing in both fiction and nonfiction. Through sustained research activities and the cultivation of professional relationships he has built a network of researchers and significantly enhanced the standing and prominence of this area of research within the academic community more generally. The volume emerged chiefly as a result of the lengthy, detailed and recurring discussions of the members of this emerging, informal research network. The contributors were all individually selected and solicited by the author as a result of this sustained process over time. This means that in addition to writing his own chapter he was responsible for deciding the scope, range and contents of the volume as a whole and, having made these decisions, for identifying which researchers would be best suited to make the most effective written contributions. In turn, the individual chapters were then written in a spirit of collaboration between the lead author and the individual authors of each chapter, so that although these are credited in print to those individuals, in practice their authorship was highly collaborative in nature and the practice should be thought of above all as one of co-creation. As the culmination of such sustained collaborative work led by the author, the production of the volume therefore involved an extensive contribution that far exceeds the writing of his individual chapter and also exceeds that of mere editor so that the volume as a whole in this sense represents his full contribution as a leading researcher.
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