@article{discovery10073947,
          number = {1},
           month = {March},
            year = {2018},
         journal = {London Review of Education},
           pages = {75--89},
           title = {Professional doctorates: A pathway to legitimacy for non-academic HE professionals?},
          volume = {16},
            note = {{\copyright}Copyright 2018 Moran and Misra. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
        keywords = {professional doctorates; higher education; non-academic; HE professional;
'third-space' HE professionals.},
        abstract = {This article discusses the current challenges faced by the two authors - both participants
on a professional doctorate (PD) programme in education at a leading UK university - in
gaining legitimacy as higher education (HE) professionals. By: (1) reflecting upon their own
professional experiences in HE and as PD students; (2) utilizing semi-structured interviews
with academic and non-academic professionals from their home institutions (in Ireland and
India); and (3) drawing on Celia Whitchurch's typologies of 'third-space' HE professionalism,
they found that in Ireland the current reform of the HE policy and praxis environment offers
some real and positive opportunities for PD participants through the emergence of more
progressive models of HE professionalism. In contrast, the relative lack of reform and a highly
regulated Indian HE environment, presents ongoing difficulties in terms of applying one's PD
learning in the work environment. This suggests that in India, PD graduates might, in fact,
be afforded greater career progression opportunities by transitioning to a more traditional
academic role.},
          author = {Moran, E and Misra, D},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.16.1.08},
            issn = {1474-8460}
}