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Thoughts on: Papers citing Whitchurch on the Third Space in HE

This is mostly just to capture my brief notes on works of interest with a focus on the Third Space in Higher Education that have drawn on the work of Celia Whitchurch (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, etc).

Carroll Graham – Changing technologies, changing identities (2013)

Joint working and the building of communicative relationships and networks seen as more important than keeping to existing boundaries and structures

Bounded = standard
Blended = perimeter

Fyffe – Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable: a narrative account of becoming an academic developer (2018)

About people entering AD roles either from teaching OR third space professional roles (as though ADs aren’t third space)

Stoltenkamp – The third-space professional: a reflective case study on maintaining relationships within a complex higher education institution (2017)

Key aspect of TS work success is visibility and building relationships

Watermeyer – Lost in the ‘third space’: the impact of public engagement in higher education on academic identity, research practice and career progression (2015)

Academics moving into 3rd space roles and feeling like they are losing their academic identity (stature?)

Smith – ‘So what do you do?’: Third space professionals navigating a Canadian university context (2021)

Role ambiguity, liminality, self-advocacy

What are the defining elements that shape professional identity for TS staff?
What structures/practices limit/support the work of TS professionals?

Mapping staff structures and relationships
I CAN’T TALK ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES IF I CAN’T DESCRIBE THESE BOUNDARIES

Edvisors need to be in the vision discussions about institutional directions and initiatives

Veles – Imagining a future: changing the landscape for third space professionals in Australian higher education institutions (2016)

Identity theory, boundaries and gatekeeping (Barth, 1969; Jenkins 2008)
How professionals see themselves in relation to academics (Krucken et al, 2013)

Fyffe, J. M. (2018). Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable: a narrative account of becoming an academic developer. International Journal for Academic Development, 0(0), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2018.1496439
Veles, N., & Carter, M.-A. (2016). Imagining a future: changing the landscape for third space professionals in Australian higher education institutions. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 38(5), 519–533. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2016.1196938
Whitchurch, C. (2009). The rise of the blended professional in higher education: a comparison between the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. Higher Education; Dordrecht, 58(3), 407–418. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au/10.1007/s10734-009-9202-4
Whitchurch, C. (2018). Being a Higher Education Professional Today: Working in a Third Space. In C. Bossu & N. Brown (Eds.), Professional and Support Staff in Higher Education (pp. 11–21). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6858-4_31
Smith, C., Holden, M., Yu, E., & Hanlon, P. (2021). ‘So what do you do?’: Third space professionals navigating a Canadian university context. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 43(5), 505–519. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2021.1884513
Stoltenkamp, J., van de Heyde, V., & Siebrits, A. (2017). The third-space professional: a reflective case study on maintaining relationships within a complex higher education institution. Reflective Practice, 18(1), 14–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2016.1214120
Watermeyer, R. (2015). Lost in the ‘third space’: the impact of public engagement in higher education on academic identity, research practice and career progression. European Journal of Higher Education, 5(3), 331–347. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2015.1044546
Whitchurch, C. (2008). Shifting Identities and Blurring Boundaries: the Emergence of Third Space Professionals in UK Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly, 62(4), 377–396. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2273.2008.00387.x
Whitchurch, C. (2012). Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The rise of “Third Space” professionals. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203098301
Graham, C. (2013). Changing technologies, changing identities. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 17(2), 62–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603108.2012.716376
Whitchurch, C., & Law, P. (2010). Optimising the Potential of Third Space Professionals: Final Report. Advance HE. https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/optimising-potential-third-space-professionals-final-report