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Journal article
Reconceptualising cleft habitus: belonging and inclusion at Australian regional universities
AER, Vol.52, pp.4427-4450
2025
Abstract
An autoethnographic exploration of the life and career experiences of ten academics across the Australian Regional University Network (RUN) unearthed a prevailing disjuncture between formative cultural experiences and academia that expands upon Binns' revised notion of cleft habitus. It signifies a gap between the genera-tive capacity of cleft experience and its predominant construction in the literature as loss, difficulty and perceived deficit. Drawing on a framework that combines 'cleft habitus' and principles of intersectionality, this paper examines how cleft experiences impact study and academic work in higher education. Key findings include how academics within a cleft habitus space occupy liminal insider/outsider positions of privilege and disadvantage and can leverage insights gained from these experiences to inform their broad scholarly practice. Reconceptualising cleft habitus as a resource provides a new contribution to discourses around equity, diversity and inclusion in higher education.
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- Title
- Reconceptualising cleft habitus: belonging and inclusion at Australian regional universities
- Authors
- Anitra Goriss-Hunter (Corresponding Author) - Federation UniversityKate White (Author) - Federation UniversityCate Thomas (Author) - Charles Sturt UniversityGail Crimmins (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesSarah Casey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative IndustriesNadya Rizk (Author) - University of New EnglandStuart Levy (Author) - Federation UniversityAgli Zavros-Orr (Author) - Federation UniversityPetrea Redmond (Author) - University of Southern QueenslandKate Ames (Author) - Torrens University Australia
- Publication details
- AER, Vol.52, pp.4427-4450
- Publisher
- Springer Dordrecht
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1007/s13384-025-00904-7
- ISSN
- 2210-5328; 0311-6999
- Copyright note
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- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991168645502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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