In this episode, Catherine shares reflections on her journey into academia and her recent research on supporting academic identity development for early career colleagues on a Teaching & Scholarship track.

Guest: Dr Catherine Queen

Catherine is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and a dual Chartered Town Planner and Landscape Architect with 35 years’ professional experience. Her research activity investigates gendered aspects of planning and design with a focus on intersectionality including marginalised, stigmatised and peripheralized communities. She has achieved global impact through her partnership with Arup and the UNDP on the multiple award-winning Cities Alive: Designing cities that work for women report and she has been recognised throughinstitutional and national awards for both her pedagogy and professional practice.

Reading List:

• Baxter, J. (2023) The role of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in developing practitioner/academic identities, AdvanceHE blog at https://www.advance- he.ac.uk/news-and-views/role-scholarship-teaching-and-learning-developing-practitioneracademic-identities (Accessed 13/08/25)
• Bourdieu, P. (1988) Homo Academicus, Cambridge, Polity Press
• McCune, V. (2021) Academic identities in contemporary higher education: Sustaining identities that value teaching. Teaching in Higher Education 26, no. 1: 20–35.https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1632826
• Reay, D. (2019) Bourdieu and Education, London, Routledge
• Smith, S. & Walker, D. (2024) Scholarship and academic capitals: the boundaried nature of education-focused career tracks, Teaching in Higher Education, 29:1,111-125, DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2021.1965570
• Thomson, P. (2017) Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu, Abingdon, Routledge
• Woon, A. (2024) How to Break the Promotion GlassCeiling for Teaching and Scholarship Academics, online HEPI blog at https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/07/22/how-to-break-the-promotion-glass-ceiling-for-teaching-and-scholarship-academics/

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