Professional identity stories are significant to better understand the influences and perceptions of teachers who describe past experiences that link to present reflections and connect to continual future evolution. The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore the influe…
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Drawing upon the biographical narratives of eight student physiotherapists and situated within an interpretive paradigm this thesis has explored the construction of professional identities within physiotherapy education. It has been predicated upon notions of identity as constru…
This thesis develops a better understanding of the lived experiences of NNES teachers, coming from diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and the complex negotiations and constructions of their professional identities against the prevalent NS fallacy in the Arab Gu…
Due to increasing societal demands, accountability and economic constraints, there has been a paradigm shift in the healthcare culture with a move to formally train medical educators. This has resulted in the professionalisation of medical education, with various development ini…
This study is set in a further education setting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It aims to deepen understanding of the effect of educational change on teachers' emotions, to explore the various ways that teachers respond to change, and to uncover whether, and in what ways, t…
The selfhood of social professionals in children’s services is under-researched, and where the primary focus is on practice ‘outcomes’. Informed by a critical social policy frame this thesis focuses on the selfhood of social professionals in children’s services to ask how it mig…
This is a qualitative study which draws on the interpretivist tradition to research the processes by which Chartered Accountant (CA) students begin to develop their sense of professional identity. The thesis draws upon recent research on identity in early professional learning, …
This thesis uses the findings from a study of pharmacists and non-pharmacists to explore the concept of professional identity in pharmacy. Pharmacists are well-established as providers of healthcare in hospitals and community pharmacies and their position as dispensers of prescr…
This thesis explores a small number of TEFL teachers’ collective responses to an extended change process in their Mexican university context from 1989-2003. The nature of the emergent knowledge arising from this inquiry hinges on the analysis and interpretation by the researcher…
Professional identity (PI) as a concept has many meanings and connotations; no single variable, study or research addresses the evolution and measurement of PI in a comprehensive way secondary to the broadness, mobility, complexity and the abstract nature of PI. In addition, PI …