Developing sustainable careers in higher education: third space professionals in Australia and Japan
Veles, Natalia, and Takagi, Kohei (2025) Developing sustainable careers in higher education: third space professionals in Australia and Japan. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. (In Press)
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Abstract
This paper examines how career sustainability is interpreted among higher education staff in Australia and Japan, focusing on third-space professionals who work across academic and professional domains. The research explored the tensions between the career aspirations and career paths of these professionals in both countries using the sustainable careers framework within a qualitative research design. In this phase, completed in 2024, perspectives on career sustainability were gathered from six staff members in one Australian university and six in a Japanese university (12 individuals in total). Despite significant differences in recruitment approaches and work organisation in Australian and Japanese universities, most enabling and disrupting factors of career sustainability discussed by participants were common, with only a few dissimilarities. The findings from this phase were used to develop preliminary recommendations for policy and practice in career development for university third space workers and will inform the second phase of this research.
| Item ID: | 90212 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1469-9508 |
| Keywords: | comparative study, qualitative research, Sustainable careers, third space professionals, universities in Australia and Japan |
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| Copyright Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jan 2026 01:54 |
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