Using a Portfolio Approach to Navigate Academia
ISBN: 978-1-83982-229-2, eISBN: 978-1-83982-226-1
Publication date: 26 April 2021
Abstract
This chapter shares some of the ways that academics curate and manage the evidence they need to support professional development and career progress, to better articulate their achievements and impact, and to identify gaps for development. The process begins with collecting and organizing evidence and then reflecting and selecting evidence for presentation. Building such a profile is part of developing and communicating a professional identity and can be done in collaboration with colleagues. This chapter also describes how a group of women collaborated to support each other through a “portfolio approach” in a project named women @the cutting edge.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
I am forever grateful to the women @the cutting edge who collaboratively prototyped the early digital portfolios in the late 1990s and the many academics who have shared ideas with me more recently in the preparation of this paper. Special thanks to the Association for Learning Technology and Certified Members who shared portfolios.
Citation
Hartnell-Young, E. (2021), "Using a Portfolio Approach to Navigate Academia", Mahat, M. (Ed.) Women Thriving in Academia (Surviving and Thriving in Academia), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 147-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-226-120211009
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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