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Writing of the Heart

Auto-Ethnographic Writing as Subversive Story Telling – A Song of Pain and Liberation1

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Identity Work in the Contemporary University

Part of the book series: Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice ((EDUFUT,volume 1))

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A 2012 survey on occupational stress carried out by the University and College Union found that staff in British universities are more stressed now than in 2008, and experience considerably higher average levels of stress relating to the demands made on them at work than the British working population as a whole.

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  1. Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland

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  1. Durham University, UK

    Jan Smith

  2. Durham University, UK

    Julie Rattray

  3. University of Sydney, Australia

    Tai Peseta

  4. University of Edinburgh, UK

    Daphne Loads

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Warren, S. (2016). Writing of the Heart. In: Smith, J., Rattray, J., Peseta, T., Loads, D. (eds) Identity Work in the Contemporary University. Educational Futures: Rethinking Theory and Practice, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-310-0_8

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